Portree Local History Society

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

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

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 Mhòr 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.

• The Secretary: Nanette Muir
• Website issues: Steve Clarke

Have you heard about the Scotland's Rural Past (SRP) project which was started at the end of 2006?

The idea is to locate and survey some of the many undocumented / unsurveyed abandoned settlements and dwellings throughout Scotland.

For now, the organisers would like to hear from people and groups who are interested in this idea even if, at the moment, they do not have any firm projects in mind. This seems to be to a worthwhile project as there are many such settlements on Skye.
To date the organisers have not heard from many Skye folk and they are keen to make contacts.
We would not like to think that Skye missed out on this opportunity, because people here were not aware of the project.

Dr Tertia Barnett, Project Manager, has indicated that they are keen to set up some projects on Skye.
The timescale she has in mind is -

If you know of other individuals or groups who might be interested, please let them know.

Norma MacLeod

We hope many will take the opportunity to discuss these points(and others) through these pages.

• A meeting (and discussion) place for Historians
• Home: an introduction to the History Society
• Some recent meetings
• Some sites worth visiting
• Michael Davitt on Skye