09 January 2025Cancelled: Meeting Thursday 30th January 2-4pm
This meeting has been cancelled because of illness
The Countess of Sutherland’s Shopping List — and its Black Isle Connections
Scilla Aitchison
Victoria Hall, Cromarty
Scilla Aitchison’s favourite place as a child was the library. She worked in archives and libraries before becoming a researcher into local history and aiding some of the Scottish Diaspora around the World in the search for their Highland ancestry.
She will explain an 18th Century Countess of Sutherland’s shopping list and its Black Isle connections at a get together of the Fourways Club and Cromarty History Society.
The meeting will take place on Thursday January 30th at 2‐4pm in the Victoria Hall. All are welcome and refreshments will be provided. We look forward to seeing you there.
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
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