26 November 2024Metting 17th December
The History of Medicine — The Ancient Origins of Modern Clinical Practice
Followed by festive mulled wine and mince pies
Dr. Andrew Newton
Victoria Hall, Cromarty
Dr Andrew Newton is a retired NHS Emergency Medicine Consultant who has a longstanding interest in Roman history and the history of healthcare. He undertakes regular work with museums as Marcus the Medicus, bringing early medical history and how it has influenced modern medicine to life.
The meeting will be followed by mulled wine and seasonal refreshments.
As usual the meeting begins at 7.30pm in the Victoria Hall and there will be time afterwards for refreshments and chat. Meetings cost £5 or £15 for annual membership which covers the rest of meetings for the year 2024-2025. We look forward to seeing you all on the 26th. Cromarty History Society now meets on the third Tuesday of each month, September‐April (except for variations this year in November and January — please see the programme) and occasionally during the summer
14 November 2024Meeting Tuesday 26th November
Dingwall and the British Empire — The Sun Never Sets over the Dingwallian Diaspora
Jonathan McColl
Victoria Hall, Cromarty
After well‐attended and interesting meetings about pre‐NHS hospitals and Iron Age archaeology on Skye, the Society’s next talk will be held a week later than usual on Tuesday November 26th due to a clash of hall bookings.
We look forward to hearing Dingwall Museum Chair Jonathon McColl tell us about his research into the Dingwillian Diaspora. Jonathan is an Irish Canadian who has been living in Dingwall with his family since the 1980s. He’s a retired IT trainer who is happy to no longer have employment interfering with his hobbies which mostly concern family and local history.
The history of a place is the collected story of its people and their doings. Dingwall has existed for a thousand years or so and its sons and daughters have gone out into the wider world from there. The talk will show us how some of them explored, worked and lived their lives in most corners of the globe.
As usual the meeting begins at 7.30pm in the Victoria Hall and there will be time afterwards for refreshments and chat. Meetings cost £5 or £15 for annual membership which covers the rest of meetings for the year 2024-2025. We look forward to seeing you all on the 26th.
Cromarty History Society now meets on the third Tuesday of each month, September‐April (except for variations this year in November and January — please see the programme) and occasionally during the summer
10 October 2024Meeting Tuesday 15th October
High Pasture Cave — Ritual, Identity and Memory in the Iron Age of Skye
Steve Birch
Victoria Hall, Cromarty
The Society’s next meeting will be on Tuesday 15th October at 7.30 pm, in the Victoria Hall. We hope to see you there.
Archaeologist Steve Birch was a Site Director of the Community Dig Team who uncovered the archaeology of the former Royal Burgh of Medieval Cromarty during 2013-16. Since then he has been involved in digs all over the Highlands, and recently in the investigation of the High Pasture Cave in Skye. This is a site on the edge of a settlement which shows signs of activity from Neolithic times, the Bronze Age and Early to Middle Scottish Iron Age.
Steve will be sharing some of his team’s discoveries with us in advance of his book about the dig,to be published next February by Oxbow Books.
The meeting will be followed by refreshments. As always the meeting is free to members, visitors £5, and the annual membership fee for meetings from October to April is only £15.
Cromarty History Society now meets on the third Tuesday of each month, September‐April (except for variations this year in November and January — please see the programme) and occasionally during the summer
