Past Speakers and Topics
2024
Chris O'Connell - The Caledonian Canal Anne Fraser/Colin Waller - Mystery of the Lion Tamer of Inverness Johannes Petersen/Jennifer Morag Henderson - The Kessock Ferry Swim Donald Mackenzie - Abertarrf House Hugh Dan MacLennan - Bught Park and Shinty David Henderson - Images from the Joseph Cook Collection Calum MacLean - The Churches of Inverness
2023
Maureen Kenyon - Inverness 'Worthies' Roddy Maclean - Origins of place names in Inverness and environs Lorna Steele-McGinn - 200 Years of Central School Willie Morrison - Photographs from his Collection Adrian Harvey - Andrew Paterson and his 1912 film Mairi Dave Conner - The Gondolier Lorna Steele-McGinn - Women in the Highland Archive Service Collections Calum MacLean - The School Buildings of Alexander Ross David Henderson - Images from the Joseph Cook Collection
2022
Iain Maoileoin - The Raigmore Bunker Allan Cameron - Various vintage films of Inverness Norman Newton - The butcher business of the Victorian Market Dave Conner - The Early Railways
Willie Morrison - Photographs from his Collection
Jennifer Morag Henderson - Josephine Tey; New Research
Norman Newton - Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders' Memorial
David Henderson - Images from the Joseph Cook Collection
2020
Dave Conner - Chief Constables of Inverness
Sinclair Gair - Alexander Battan Grant
2019
Tim Honnor - History of Printing & Inverness Printers
Lawrence Sutcliffe - Early Inverness Cinemas
Ross Martin - Reminiscences of 1950s Inverness
Sinclair Browne - Inverness Harbour; Past, Present & Future
David Henderson - Images from the Joseph Cook Collection
Gill Bird - The Highlanders' Museum, Fort George
Anne-Mary Paterson - Joseph Mitchell, the Paterson's & Highland Railway
Willie Morrison - Vintage Images from his Collection
Allan Kilpatrick - The US Navy Bases in WWI (One-day Conference)
2018
Erik Lundberg - Wardlaw and the Old Fox Alison Parfitt - Academy Street Townscape Heritage Project
Robert Preece - Inverness Scouting Before WWII
Ross Martin - The Old High Church
Dave Conner - US Navy Base 18 in WWI
David Henderson - Images from the Joseph Cook Collection
Maureen Kenyon - Local Women & the Great War
Stephen Wiseman - History & Current Operations of the Caledonian Canal
2017
Sandy Thomson - Nigg; From Crofting to Oil
Norman Newton/Maureen Kenyon - Photographic Journey Through the Streets of Inverness
David Alston - How Inverness Benefitted from the Slave Trade
Jim Leslie - History of Inverness Hospitals
Lorna MacLennan - Academy Street
Jim Miller - 200 Years of The Inverness Courier
Matt Sillars - Importance of Andrew Paterson to Inverness & Scottish Photography
Robert Preece - History of Inverness Royal Academy
2016
Jason Kelman - Town House Restoration Work
Jim Miller - History of the North Roads
Jim Mackay - Medieval Symbol Stones of the North
Anne Fraser - Some Highland Scientists
Allan Cameron - Old Film of Inverness
Sandy Ross - The Foundation of the Site of Inverness
Alison Boyle - Strathpeffer Hospitals in WWI
Bob Shanks/Lynsey Easton - Medals & Militaria of WWI
2015
Cait McCullagh - Museum Collections; Every Object Tells a Story
Walter McGinty - Inverness Stained Glass
Jim Mackay - Ferries of the Beauly & Moray Firths
John Sinclair - Highland Buses
Maureen Kenyon - Oral History of Inverness
Eileen MacAskill - The Rose Street Foundry
Colin Waller - Mental Health in the Highlands
Dave Conner - Law Enforcement Over the Years in the Inverness Area
2014
Jim Miller - Inverness & the Stagecoach
Hugh Dan MacLennan - The Morag MacInnes Photograph Collection
Graham Clark - Murder on the Black Isle
Jason Kelman - Maintaining Inverness's Historic Buildings
Jim Leslie - More on Highland Hospitals
Adrian Harvey - The Andrew Paterson Photograph Collection
Willie Morrison - The Inverness Courier Vintage Photobook Vol.10
Andrew Mackintosh - Storyteller
Christina Stewart - Highland Culture & Entertainments
2013
Cait McCullagh - Behind the Scenes of Inverness Museum
Maureen Kenyon - Was Your Granny a Suffragette?
Anne Fraser - The 'Ordinary' Fraser's of South Loch Ness-side
Sheila Mackay - Old Inverness Films
Alison Dougherty - Neil Gunn Remembered
Jennifer Morag Henderson - Josephine Tey; An Inverness Author
Andy Beattie - Restoration Work on the Inverness Steeple
Willie Morrison - The Inverness Courier Vintage Photobook Vol.9
2012
Janet Baker - Using the Archives
David Alston - Highland Landowners
Jim Leslie - History of Highland Hospitals
Jason Kelman - Town House & Steeple
Sheila Mackay - Inverness 'Worthies'
Norman Newton - Tragedy on Glebe Street
Stephen Wiseman - The Monster Canal
Willie Morrison - The Inverness Courier Vintage Photobook Vol.8
2011
John Wartnaby - Culloden; The Aftermath
Susan Beckley - Highland Archive Network
Alix Powers-Jones - The Highlanders' Museum, Fort George
Anne Fraser - Using Census Records
Susan Kruse - Prehistoric Inverness
David Henderson - Images from the Joseph Cook Collection
2010
Ian Burnett - History of the Town Hall
David Worthington - Highlanders in Europe
Jeanette Pearson - Hidden Gems from Inverness Museum
Jim Hunter - History of Community Ownership in the Highlands
Norman Newton - Old Inverness; The Watercolours of Pierre Delavault
Sheila Mackay - Inverness Remembered
Leonella Longmore - The Italians in Inverness
Lesley Junor - Inverness in Photographs
2009
A MacDonald - The Prison Service
Jim Miller - Council Finances
Anne Fraser - More Lessons by Loch Ness
Martin Gostwick - The Legend of Hugh Miller
Sheila Mackay - Potato Famine in the Highlands
Graham Clark - Red Castle of the Mackenzies
Rev A Younger - Church & Presbytery of Inverness
2008
Duncan MacDonald - Balmacaan Estate
Tom Coombs - Highland Railway
Norman Newton - Maps & Local History
Violet Murray - Wolf of Badenoch; The Inverness Connection
also Talks from Bob Steward and Willie Morrison
2007
Sheila Mackay - Social Housing in the Highlands
David Henderson - Highland Drove Roads
David Alston - Cromarty & Thereabouts
Roddy Balfour - More on Highland Emigration
Leonella Longmore - Inverness in the 18th Century
Willie Morrison - Tales From a North Journalist
Susan Kruse - Vikings in the North
2006
Addie Mackenzie - History of the Lovat Scouts
Jenny Rose-Miller - Around & About Old Nairn
Janet Maxwell - Childhood in the Highlands
Anne Fraser - 300 Years of Education by the Shores of Loch Ness
Fraser Ross - Beauly Priory
Donnie Grant - Tales From the Fire Brigade
Kirsty cameron - Inverness Archaeology Update
2005
Colin Sutherland - Inverness Burgh police
Ross Mackenzie - Inverness, Orkney & Flanders
John Graham - Scotland's Part in the Battle of Trafalgar
Ted Murdoch - History of the Port of Inverness
also Talks from Hector MacDonald and Alison Tanner
2004
Patricia Weeks - Local Archaeology Update
Jane Petrie - Travelling Folk in the Highlands
Eileen MacAskill - Old School Memories
Ian MacDairmid - Inverness Parish Churches
Andrew Ross - History & Workings of the Caledonian Canal
Gordon Harvey - Pictures From the Past
also a Talk from Jim Miller
2003
Bob Steward - Early Motoring in Inverness
Jane Petrie - Old Charters of Inverness
Bill Hamilton - An Old Inverness House
Brian Ford - Story of Fort George
Sid Atkinson - The Maestro Himself
Martin MacDonald - Inverness & the Gaelic
David Henderson - Images from the Joseph Cook Collection
2002
George Christie - The Barony of Kinmylies
Hector MacDonald - Tales From a Local Historian
Roddy MacLean - Gaelic Origins of Local Areas
David Henderson - Images from the Joseph Cook Collection
also Talks from Bob Steward, Norman Newton and Lesley Junor
2001
Stephen Moran - The MacAndrew Family Story
Bill Hamilton - An Architect's View of the Town
Leonella Longmore - Land of Churches
Ross Mackenzie - The Growth of Inverness Town
Jane Petrie - Crime; An Overview
George Dixon - The Road South
Eileen MacAskill - Industrial History of Inverness
2000
Lesley Junor - The David Whyte Photograph Collection
Stuart Brownlee - Archive & Library Developments
Ross Mackenzie - Culloden
also Talks from Sid Atkinson, Alison Fox, Norman Newton and Bob Steward
1999
Alec Wells - Story of Craig Dunain Hospital
Colin Sutherland - The Real John Adams Story
Allan Sellar - Highlights of a Provost's Job
Leonella Longmore - Photographic Slides Presentation
also Talks from Bob Sim and Donald Morrison
1998
Monica Clough - Inverness After the '45 Rebellion
Ian Michie - Inverness Tales
Ted Murdoch - Inverness Harbour
Bob Steward - Bell's School at Farraline Park
John Wood - What's Below Us; Archaeology of Inverness
Leonella Longmore - Photographic Slides Presentation
also a Talk from architect Hector MacDonald
1997
Jason Barker - Local History
Bob Steward - Tales of Our Forebears
Norman Newton - Inverness & Its History
Alastair MacLeod - Your Family History
