Join the Centre for History UHI for a series of live online talks every month during 2020 and into 2021. Expert speakers offer their insights on a wide range of topics of interest to the historically-minded. You won’t need any special software and members of the public are very welcome to join us!

The talks take place at lunchtime over the summer, moving to 5.30pm during term time.

Forthcoming talks

Thursday 13 August, 12-1pm:

Spaces of Assertion: informal land occupations in the Scottish Highlands after 1914 (Dr Iain Robertson)

Thursday 27 August, 1-2pm:

Sugar, Slave-owning and the Scottish Highlands before 1707 (Professor David Worthington) in association with The Edge. Please note there is a later time and different joining instructions for this talk.

Past talks

• Hunger, Protest, Riot: three months in north and north-east Scotland (Professor Jim Hunter)
• Raising Royal Scottish Babes: baptism rites, gossibs and godparents in late medieval and early modern Scotland (Dr Lucy Dean)
• Sutherland and the Scottish Wars of Independence, 1296-1357 (Dr Iain MacInnes)