Comann Eachdraidh Ionadail Phortrigh

 
Portree Local History Society

Chair: Morna MacLaren
Vice Chair: Bruce McGhie
Secretary: Nanette Muir
Treasurer: Tim Moore

Our New Season
2007 - 2008
begins
Tuesday October 9
at Tigh na Sgire, Portree
7.30 p.m.

Programme of Meetings: 2007 - 2008

October 9 - Ian Suddaby - The Excavation at Home Farm
November 13 - Dr Jeff Stone - St Kilda: Two Decades of Digging and Scraping
(in association with Aberdeen University Centre for Lifelong Learning )
December 11 - Dr Martin MacGregor - The Lordship of the Isles
January 8 - Seonachan MacLeod - Deserted Villages of Skye
February 12 - Professor Brian Sykes - Vikings in the Blood?
March 11 - Murray MacDonald - Mobile Banking by Land and Sea in the Highlands and Islands
April 8 - AGM, with guest speaker - Ronnie Armstrong - Para Handy and the Clyde Puffers

 		 The Quay 

Previous Meetings: 2006 - 2007

October 10 - Bill Cowie - Kirk Cave, Rona
November 14 - Alister Ross – Education – PHS100
December 12 - Norman Newton - Skye and Raasay
(in association with Aberdeen University Centre for Lifelong Learning )
January 9 - Pat Myhill - Telford’s Stein
February 13 - Fiona MacKenzie – Màiri Mḥr nan Orain -
A song-lecture
March 13 - Ian McCrorie - The MacBrayne Story
April 10 - AGM, with guest speaker - Roger Hutchinson - “Calum’s Road”

All meetings are held at Tigh na Sgire, Portree,
at 7. 30 p.m.,
on the second Tuesday of each month.


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Portree and Skye History on the Web

Inevitably, there is a huge range of references to the Portree area on the Internet - some better than others, some commercial, some research-based.

This list, which will grow with this site, represents some of those we have found.
We leave it up to our readers to judge the relative value of each, and cannot be held responsible for their content,
but think you may find them worthwhile and interesting.

  • The "am baile" site - The Gaelic Village - has to be a starting point.
    Although a "Highlands-wide" enterprise, the site has a search engine which will focus you onto matters of Skye, Portree, or wheresoever you please.
  • The Portree section of the British History Online site is taken from the 1846 "Topographical Dictionary of Scotland". Fascinating.
  • "A Vision of Britain Through Time" is based at the University of Portsmouth, and is well worth a visit and some detailed surfing.
    Portree's entry contains a lot of interesting detail.
  • Just as an example, here is a study of crofting, one of many similar articles tucked away on the Web.
    Enjoy the search.
  • A site offering services connected with genealogical research:

 
Published by Stephen Clarke, on behalf of Portree Local History Society - © September 2006.
Photographs, unless otherwise stated © Dualchas 2006
The publisher and the Society publish this information in good faith, but cannot be held responsible for any errors or omissions.
Meeting dates and topics are subject to change.