24 March 2022

Rev. James Fraser, the Highlands and Europe in the Century before Culloden

Talk by Prof. David Worthington

Organised by ARCH. Venue: Dingwall Community Centre. Suggested donation £3. If closer to the time Covid concerns arise, please email info@archhighland.org.uk phone 077888 35466.

What are the pros and cons of using autobiographical sources towards understanding the past? How interconnected and entangled with the outside world was the Highlands before Culloden? This talk will present some of the work that has gone into his  forthcoming Edinburgh University Press book on Rev. James Fraser (1634-1709), a minister in Kirkhill, scholar, traveller and prolific writer.

24 March 2022

Cultural Heritage and Scotland's network of marine protected areas

Online seminar by Philip Robertson, Historic Environment Scotland

Organised by U. of Edinburgh School of History, Classics & Archaeology. For details and to register, see their website