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Island Notes

The TrustIsland Notes is new series of Book Trust publications. These are summaries of talks given at events arranged by the Book Trust (already made available to Gold members). The new series is produced in an attractive standard format and is available at a modest price.

Details of the 'Island Notes' currently available are shown below.

No.1 St Kilda and Foula - survival and decline
John Randall Michael Robson Isobel Holborn

No.2 Place names of Barra & Lewis
Michael Robson Anke-Beate Stahl

No.3 History of Port of Ness Harbour - Michael Robson


No.4 A background to shielings - Michael Robson

No.5 Beehive shieling structures in Uig, Lewis - Dave Roberts

No.6 Travellers to the Hebrides - Elizabeth Bray

No.7 The Flannan Isles - Michael Robson

No.8 Some Collectors of Gaelic Song - Morag Macleod

No.9 Looking at monuments - the work of Historic Scotland in Lewis
Chris Barrowman

No.10 Troubles over Rona - Michael Robson

No.11 Rum - a landscape without figures - John Love

No.12 Writing about islands - Mairi Hedderwick

No.13 St Kilda and the 'outside world' - Michael Robson

No.14 J A Harvie-Brown in the Outer Hebrides - Michael Robson

No.15 A Head for Heights-Investigating the Archaeology of Sea-Stacks in Lewis

Chris Barrowman et al

No. 16 The Deserted Settlement of Stiemreway - John Randall

No. 17 Martin Martin on Uist - Michael Robson

No 18 The Island of Scarp - Calum John Mackay

No. 19 The Great Forest on the Other Side of Loch Shell - Michael Robson

No. 20 A Grand Tour of Scotland's Inhabited Islands - Cairns Aitken

No. 21 Tory Island - the island that nearly died - Alasdair MacEachen

No. 22 The Decline and Fall of Mingulay - Ben Buxton

No. 23 The Early History of Ness.- Donald William Stewart

No 24 Singers and Tradition Bearers in Lewis and Harris I have known. - Morag Macleod

No25 Tristan da Cunha - Paul Tyler

No 26 The Shiants - Adam Nicolson

No 27 World War Two in the Hebrides - Mike Hughes

No 28 Breaking down the Barriers - Lesley Riddoch

No 29 The Archaeology of the Shiants - Dr Mary Macleod

No 30 Cultural changes in Quebec since the Gaelic Settlers - Margaret Bennett

No 31 Three centuries of natural history in the Highlands - John Love

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AGNES RENNIE TO GIVE THE 2010 ANGUS MACLEOD MEMORIAL LECTURE ON LAND REFORM

This year’s prestigious Angus Macleod memorial lecture will take place on Thursday 28th October in Pairc School, Gravir, it was announced today. The speaker will be Agnes Rennie, a crofter from Galson, Ness, Lewis, and well known for her work with the Crofters Commission, Bord na Gaidhlig, councillor for the Nis is an Taobh Siar of Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, and currently chair of Urras Oighreachd Ghabhsainn (Galson Trust).

Agnes, who will speak in Gaelic (with simultaneous translation into English) will be taking as her subject the land struggle, land reform, and community ownership of land – a subject dear to the heart of the late Angus ‘Ease’ Macleod MBE and not tackled in previous lectures.more

 

 


 

 

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