17 September 2025

The People of St Kilda

Talk by Susan Bains

Organised by Cawdor Heritage Group. Venue; Cawdor Community Centre. Cawdorheritage@gmail.com

17 September 2025

Guided tour of Am Fasgadh Store at the Highland Folk Museum. 

Donations welcome - pay what you can. Places limited and booking essential by phoning 01349 781650 or email highland.folk@highlifehighland.com

17 September 2025

A course in Understanding and Reading Old Handwriting

Led by Dr John Barrett

Organised by Dingwall Museum. Venue: The Highland Archive Centre, Bught Road, Inverness. Cost £25. Limited places.

To book see the Dingwall Museum website

17 September 2025

Family History for Beginners

Course run by Highland Archive Service to be held in the Highland Archive Centre, Inveress. Email genealogy@highlifehighand.com for for further details, times and costs.

17 September 2025

Celebrating the local links of Rev Thomas Sinton

Organised by Laggan Heritage and Laggan Church Partnership. Venue: Laggan Church

The event will include talks, poems, and songs

The Rev. Sinton was born at Aberarder in 1855.  His family moved several times through his youth, but he clearly felt a great affection for Badenoch and much later in life, he wrote two locally significant books - The Poetry of Badenoch and By Loch and River, which includes poetic works and notes on his local recollections.

This event also marks the formal transfer of a photographic portrait of the Rev. Sinton, which had long hung in the church at Dores on Loch Ness side.  With the sale of the church in 2023, the future of the portrait was uncertain.  We are extremely fortunate that Dr Hazel Campbell took an interest and secured it in the hope that it would find a welcome home in Badenoch.  We are delighted to receive the portrait and after a brief period of conservation, hope to display it as part or an exhibition of local culture in the Church.