Eilean Glas Lighthouse (Saturday
15th May),
Fladda Chuain (Saturday 29th May)
Heisker(Saturday 12th June)
Flannan Isles (Saturday 19th June)
Shiant Isles (Saturday 3rd July).
Kinloch Resort (Saturday 17th July) Boreray (Saturday 31st July)
A full programme of events in Uist, Benbecula, Barra
and Skye here
MORE RECENT
PUBLICATIONS
For a full list of publications see here
SUAS GU DEAS
Two Hebrideans walking from the Butt to Barra Head
Angus Peter Campbell and Cailean Maclean
Retail Price £20
DOLLY DOCTOR
Pictures of Bygone Island Life
Retail price £12
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REFLECTIONS ON THE HISTORY OF STORNOWAY AND LEWIS
-Sandy Matheson
Retail price £6
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ICELAND AND THE HEBRIDES – MY ROOTS by Sally Magnusson
Retail Price £5
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STORNOWAY IN WORLD WAR TWO
- Mike Hughes
Retail Price £6.
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EARLY CHRISTIANITY IN LEWIS – THE NESS CONNECTION
Retail Price £6 
THE SPORTING ESTATES OF THE OUTER HEBRIDES - PAST AND PRESENT
by David S D
Jones
Retail Price £12.99
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WHALING AND THE HEBRIDES
Retail Price £12
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LATEST
PUBLICATIONS
FROM HIRTA TO PORT PHILLIP
ERIC RICHARDS
The story of the ill-fated emigration from St Kilda to Australia in 1852
Retail price £7.50
While the emotions and eco nomic realities surrounding the evacuation of St Kilda in 1930 are well-known and still hotly debated, less is known of an equally traumatic earlier event in the history of the islands – the emigration of 36 islanders to Australia in 1852. Fewer than half of the St Kildans who set sail from Birkenhead in the ‘Priscilla’ survived the journey and its immediate aftermath. In this well-researched and beautifully illustrated booklet, Eric Richards, Professor of History at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, and an expert on the Highland Clearances and emigration, looks at the intriguing background, story, and consequences of this ill-fated venture.
ISLAND HEROES
The Military History of the Hebrides
Retail price £15
Almost every township throughout the Islands has its war memorial inscribed with scores of names, but how much do we really know about the role of the Hebrides and her people in wartime?
The Islands Book Trust held a three-day conference to address exactly this question. ‘Island Heroes – The Hebrides and UK Military History’ took place in the Isle of Lewis, where a range of excellent speakers discussed the disproportionate contribution and sacrifice made by islanders to UK military campaigns over at least the last 250 years and the role of the Hebrides during World War Two.
This book brings together the various contributions - looking at warfare from a uniquely island perspective.
Dualchas àraid agus prìseil
A UNIQUE AND PRECIOUS CULTURE
The Changing Face of South Uist and Eriskay
Photographs by Dr Kenneth Robertson
This unique book features a selection of the best photographs of the late Dr Kenneth Robertson, mostly previously unpublished and taken over a period from 1956 to 1981.
A first class photographer, Dr Robertson was very aware of his good fortune to be in a position to record the life of the islands at a time when they were on the cusp of great and irrevocable change. His studies of the everyday world of crofting, fishing and home life tell a much deeper story of hardship and joy, most of which is now but a memory
Memories of the Island of Scarp
In this well-illustrated booklet, Donald John Macleod brings together his own personal memories of life on the island, together with a series of anecdotes and  contributions which vividly illustrate what it was like to be a resident of Scarp during the last century. It will be of absorbing interest to all who have visited this now depopulated island, or have gazed wistfully across the narrow sound of water near Husinish, Harris, to the clearly visible buildings on a green strip of land which once formed a living community.
Donald John’s inimitable style is apparent right from the start of the book: ‘I have travelled all over the world and Scarp was the happiest and friendliest place I have ever been. It was paradise for a child on summer holiday; most days playing on the sands, in and out of boats, over to Fladday at the peats, fishing, trips to Hushinish and visiting the houses there and shearing sheep out at the fank at the back of Scarp, which was very dangerous as there is a steep chasm into the sea beside it.'
CALVINISM, LITERATURE AND THE IMAGINATION
Prof Donald Macleod
Retail Price £5
This thought-provoking booklet, based on a memorable lecture by one of Scotland’s leading thinkers about religion at an Islands Book Trust event in Summer 2009, sets out Professor Donald Macleod’s views on an important and controversial subject – the relationship between Calvinism, literature and creative writing. The caricature of rigid Presbyterianism suppressing artistic expression is well-known, but is it true and is it consistent with the teachings of Calvin? Professor Macleod was born in Lewis and is Principal of the Free Church College in Edinburgh
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ISLAND
NOTES
Island Notes - If you missed one
of our events we have introduced a series
of modestly-priced Island Notes which summarise
talks given at Trust events.
You can purchase copies in the Publiations section or if you prefer to order by post a
price list and order form
is available here
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