Our March 2017 Highland Archive Service Newsletter is out with updates from: Nucleus: The Nuclear and Caithness Archives Skye and Lochalsh Archive Centre Lochaber Archive Centre Highland Archive Centre, Inverness You can read the full newsletter online here. Read more
Researching the Impact of the First World War on the Highlands and Islands A Free and Open Event Friday 10th March 2017, 10:30am – 4:30pm Highland Archive Centre, Inverness, IV3 5SS High Life Highland and the University of the Highlands and Islands are co-hosting this open and free study day with the First World War… Read more »Read more
We shall be hosting an illustrated talk at 7:30pm, Thursday 9th February 2017, at the Highland Archive Centre, Inverness on the following topic: The Patersons of Beauly: Centenary reflections on rifles, romance, shinty and WW1 Hugh Dan MacLennan and Margaret Mackay will take us into Highland communities one hundred years ago. Family history and lore, an autograph book, sporting… Read more »Read more
Creative Writing Event 2016 Calling all aspiring authors! Are you interested in Highland history and culture? Do you enjoy creating short stories, poems or illustrations? Do you want to be part of an exhibition? The Highland Archive Centre cares for thousands of historic documents. These are full of both well-known and long-forgotten stories from hundreds of… Read more »Read more
The staff of the Highland Archive Service are continually exploring ways of making new links with groups and organisations across the Highlands, to promote the work of the service and to spread the word about the wonderful collections of records available for research. We are consequently really pleased to have developed a good relationship over… Read more »Read more
We regularly run classes in- house at our archive centres for members of the public, the subjects varying from looking after old photographs, to exploring original archives sources or researching family trees. There is also these days a growing demand for the last mentioned to be delivered at external venues: we have recently delivered Family… Read more »Read more
This year will see the centenary of the Battle of the Somme. Many Highlanders fell in the battle or died afterwards of their wounds, over 70 men from Skye and Lochalsh alone. In those far off days dressings for wounds were often still made from the traditional material of sphagnum moss. Here you can see… Read more »Read more
Professor Jim Hunter will be launching his book “Set Adrift Upon the World” at the Highland Archive and Registration Centre, Bught Road, Inverness on Thursday 12 November at 7pm. “They would be better dead than set adrift upon the world”. Such was the plight of thousands of people caught up in the clearances in the… Read more »Read more
A song sung at a Perth music festival has led Edinburgh based singer-songwriter Dean Owens to make a poignant pilgrimage to an Inverness cemetery, to see for the first time the last resting place of his great great grandfather – the lair of the lion tamer. Dean Owens wrote “Dora” – a track from his… Read more »Read more
The Highland Archive Service has had a busy old time during the last few months welcoming visitors from all parts of the globe. The exodus of people from the Highlands in centuries gone by has resulted in millions of people in many countries of the world having Highland roots. In the summer time many people… Read more »Read more
