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