19 February 2016

East is East and West is West: World Systems and the Moray Firth in Late Antiquity

Lecture by Dr Alex Woolf, Senior Lecturer, University of St Andrews:

Friday 19 February, 1 – 2pm, Room to Discover, Inverness Museum

In the decades around 600 the kingdom of Dál Riata, straddling the North Channel, seems to have punched well above its weight yet a century later it was all but eclipsed by the rising power of Fortriu around the Moray Firth. Whilst both kingdoms owed something of their prominence to their positions at either end of the bottleneck created by the Great Glen, it will be argued that the reversal of their respective roles reflects the wider and far reaching changes in the routes by which prestige goods arrived in the Insular World from the Continent in the course of Late Antiquity.

This event is FREE to those who booked for the original day conference in  ‘Moving beyond the Frontier’ Day Conference on 9 October 2015. There is a charge of £3 per any additional guests.

Booking is essential, as places are limited. To book please contact Cait McCullagh at Inverness Museum by Saturday 23 January 2016, letting her know the names of all those you are booking a seat for.

19 February 2016

Family History for Beginners

Course run at the Inverness Archives Centre, Bught Road, Inverness.

Cost £32 / £16 concession

For more information or to book a place please contact
Family History Centre tel: 01463 256433
email: genealogy@highlifehighland.com

Please book early as places are limited