Military Roads and King's Houses: spaces of conflict, mobility and cultural assimiliation in the Scottish Highlands

Drawing on a range of primary and secondary sources pertaining
to military roads and King’s Houses, this paper highlights the
significance of space and material culture during the century of
conflict, mobility, and cultural assimilation that drew the Scottish
Highlands and Gaelic culture into the nation-state of Great
Britain. The original fieldwork presented here locates, identifies,
and analyzes lost inns known as King’s Houses, governmentowned
inns established along military roads constructed by the
British army throughout the eighteenth century. King’s Houses
were central to the narrative of Highland Scotland as a site of both
improvement and internal colonialism within the British Isles.