19 April 2022

Researching Kirkhill Heritage

Kirkhill Community Centre

A chance to find out more about the rich multi-period heritage in Kirkhill. This follows on from sessions in March, but please feel free to join if you didn't attend these sessions. We'll cover how to browse old maps, using heritage databases, good sources on paper and online, and much more, working to build up a picture of the heritage in Kirkhill.

To book or for further information, contact kirkhillheritage@gmail.com or phone 077888 35466

Organised as part of ARCH's FACET project, with funding from Historic Environment Scotland, ARCH and Hugh Fraser Foundation

19 April 2022

Osgood Mackenzie: Insights into Parochial Life

Talk by Pauleen Butler

Gairloch Museum. Cost £3. For further details and bookings, see the museum's website.

On the centenary of his funeral, it’s appropriate to recognise how Osgood Mackenzie of Inverewe contributed to the life of the parish, over and beyond creating his Garden. As chairman of the Education Board, champion of the Gaelic language, outdoor pursuits enthusiast and exercising his rights as heritor in church and medical matters, he was certainly a controversial resident!  

​Putting into practice what she preached as a history teacher, Pauline Butler has explored contemporary newspaper reports, legal papers and school logbooks to publish Eighty Years in the Highlands, the life and times of Osgood H. Mackenzie of Inverewe 1842-1922.  

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19 April 2022

Community excavation on this settlement, part of the Lost Inverlael Project run by Ullapool Museum. No experience necessary but booking essential. More information about the project is available on the Ullapool Museum website. To book a place, email LostInverlael@outlook.com

19 April 2022

Lady Jean Gordon, Countess of Bothwell

Online talk by Jennifer Morag Henderson, organised by History Scotland. Cost £10. Bookings from HistoryScotland website

Jennifer Morag Henderson shares stories from her fascinating research into Lady Jean Gordon (1546-1629), known best to history as the wife of James Hepburn, Lord Bothwell – third husband of Mary Queen of ScotsThe talk will centre upon the downfall of the Huntly family – the dramatic defeat of Jean Gordon's father George Gordon by James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray , and what that then meant for the Huntly family and, more widely, for the Scotland of Mary Queen of Scots. 

19 April 2022

From the Courthouse Archives: Cromarty  the story of a town: memories of Fishertown

Preceded by Cromarty History Society AGM. Venue: Old Brewery, Cromarty, £3 admission. Further details from Cromarty History website.