17 April 2015

 The Women who Went to War

Talk and film by Alan Cumming

Inverness Museum. Booking essential to 01463 237114 or email Cait McCullagh at cait.mccullagh@highlifehighland.com. Cost: £3

Researcher, Alan Cumming will speak about and show a film covering the development of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals during the Great War, including the role of women from the Highlands in this movement. Set up with two very specific aims: to help the war effort by providing medical assistance and to promote the cause of women’s rights, the network established hospitals in the field, close to the major conflicts in France, Macedonia, Greece, Corsica, Romania, Russia and Serbia.
 

17 April 2015

 Researching and Living 1745

Presentation by Thomas Grooms and Elliot MacFarlane

This presentation discusses the challenges and rewards of being part of MacFarlane's Company, a Living History Troupe. This group uses Living History presentations to teach people about the rich history and culture of Scoltand and the Scottish diaspora.

Culloden Battlefield and Visitor Centre. For more information and to book see culloden@nts.org.uk, or telephone 01463 796090. Part of the 269th Anniversary of the Battle of Culloden.

17 April 2015

What makes heroic strife? Paractical Jacobitism and its burial at Culloden

Talk by Darren Layne, Doctoral Candidate at University of St Andrews. (The 1745 Association Memorial Lecture)

Culloden Battlefield and Visitor Centre. For more information and to book see culloden@nts.org.uk, or telephone 01463 796090. Part of the 269th Anniversary of the Battle of Culloden.

This presentation examines the conflict bnetween Jacobite ideology and practice and the crossroads between them. Was it only the hopes of a Stuart restoration that died with the hundreds of Jacobite soldiers on that bleak spring day, ro something far greater?