30 November 2016

The Rose Street Foundry's 120 Year Old Tile Mosaic Murals

Talk by Eileen MacAskill

Dingwall Community Centre. Organised by ARCH. Suggested donation £3

Eileen MacAskill will describe iron work elsewhere in Scotland and Inverness, will look at why iron works were established in Inverness when all the pig iron had to be imported, and will also consider why one, The Rose Street Foundry, saw off all other local iron works and was so successful that it could afford to commission a new warehouse and offices at the corner of Rose Street and Academy Street and decorate this building with tile mosaic murals made and brought all the way from Shropshire in 1896.

30 November 2016

Improvement and Landscape: Landownership in Eighteenth-Century Scotland

Talk by Micky Gibbard, PhD student, University of Dundee

Burghfield House, Cnoc an Lobht, Dornoch

Organised by UHI Centre for History

This seminar is being given as part of the relaunch of the Centre for Scotland’s Land Futures. The evening will commence at 6pm with a wine reception and will be followed by the relaunch and the seminar. More details will follow and booking is essential.

For further details or to book a place contact historyevents@uhi.ac.uk