• Small Finds Illustration Workshop

    Expert illustrator Thomas Small (Small Finds & Design) will deliver two workshops at Nairn Community & Arts Centre. The workshops will focus on practical exercises, teaching the principles of pottery and small finds illustration with a straight-forward guide for participants

    Free
  • Salt Symposium, Brora

    Brora Primary School Hall and Community Centre Johnston Place, Brora, United Kingdom

    Join us for a unique and exciting weekend event in Brora! Organised by The SCAPE Trust and local partners, including Clyne Heritage Society (Brora) and Brora Salt Pans Research Group, this event brings salt historians, archaeologists, enthusiasts and Scottish salt

    £25
  • Slaves and Highlanders – silenced histories of Scotland and the Carribean

    Cromarty Courthouse Church Street, Cromarty, Ross-shire, United Kingdom

    Join David Alston on a walk to uncover Cromarty's links with the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The one-hour walk will start at Cromarty harbour and finish at Cromarty Courthouse, where David's newly published book will be available to purchase.

    Free
  • Slaves and Highlanders – hidden histories of Scotland and the Carribean

    Cromarty Courthouse Church Street, Cromarty, Ross-shire, United Kingdom

    Join David Alston on a walk to uncover Cromarty's links with the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The one-hour walk will start at Cromarty harbour and finish at Cromarty Courthouse, where David's newly published book will be available to purchase.

    Free
  • Museums and Education Post-Covid

    Gairloch Museum Gairloch, United Kingdom

    Education is at the heart of all museum activity and prior to COVID-19 museums provided education activities predominantly in the form of guided tours, staff visits, school outreach, loan boxes and professional development for teachers. When the pandemic hit many

    Free
  • Unforgotten Highland Women – Mary Marjory MacDonald, Ullapool

    Highland Museum of Childhood The Old Station, Strathpeffer, United Kingdom

    How is a notorious story which would have been thought of as shameful and shunned at the time remembered now?  Mary Marjory was the only child of a local Gaelic speaking fishing family who had a successful business in town. 

    Free
  • Unforgotten Highland Women – Megan Boyd and Caroline Ross, Brora

    Brora Heritage Centre Fascally, Brora, Highland, United Kingdom

    Megan Boyd - salmon fly dresser (1915-2001) Though she never fished herself, she is regarded as the finest maker of salmon fishing flies in the world. She took to the craft of salmon fly dressing under the supervision of a Sutherland gamekeeper. She won her first award in

    Free
  • Unforgotten Highland Women – Margaret Swanson, Castletown

    Castlehill Heritage Centre Harbour Road, Castletown, United Kingdom

    Margaret grew up in Castletown, Caithness, the daughter of the village cobbler. Despite her humble beginnings she went on to influence the education of generations of girls.  After early schooling at the local school, Margaret was sent to board with

    Free