The Lithuanians in Scotland: A personal view

by John Millar

This is the history of a small community which survived persecution and deprivation to build a new life in alien surroundings. The immigrants were met with hostility and naked xenophobia. Keir Hardie tried to raise the rabble against them for growing fat on four shillings a week. The Lithuanian community, however, made a strong contribution to modern Scotland. The sons and daughters of that community are now fully integrated into the nation, but this is a record of the early years.

166 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

John Millar graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, and has a doctorate from Imperial college, London. He has worked for BP developing new geophysical methods for use in oil exploration and production. In 1994 he co-founded GroundFlow Ltd., which has developed electrokinetic surveying as a new technique for imaging and mapping subsurface water distribution.