Comunn Eachdraidh Shlèite
Sleat Local History Society
"Preserving the history of the parish of Sleat on the Isle of Skye"
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Ardvasar Hotel
Advasar Hotel
News & Events
Winter programme
Summer activities
Any other news or events
Meetings are held on a Friday and the start time is 7.30pm, unless otherwise stated in the programme. Our usual venues are the Conference Room/Seomar Cruinneachaidh at Sabhal Mor Ostaig and the Somerled Rooms at Armadale Castle. These are shown as SMO and AC in the programme below. From time to time we use other venues – if so these will be specified on the programme. Monthly meetings are free to members, while the entry for non-members is usually £2. The exception is for entry to meetings where the speakers are provided by Aberdeen University - the cost is then £3.
Winter Programme 2008-2009
| Date | Event |
| 31 October | Echoes of the Resurrection Men. An illustrated talk on Scottish grave robbing by Dr Martyn Gorman AC Starts 8pm |
| 28 November | AGM followed by Deserted Villages of Skye. An illustrated talk by Seonachan MacLeod SMO |
| 12 December | Film & Photo night. A selection of short films from the Scottish Screen Archive, plus bring your own old photos of Sleat and its people SMO |
| 6 January | Remembering Johnny Ivy. An informal evening of music, poetry and stories Talla Dearg, Eilean Iarmain |
| 15 February | Update on recent excavations in Skye & Lochalsh (including the dig at High Pastures Cave) an illustrated talk by Steven Birch AC Starts 8pm |
| 20 March | The Photographic achievement of Walter Blaikie in South Uist & Eriskay. An illustrated talk about the Edinburgh publisher and photographer by Hugh Cheape. SMO |
| 17 April | Speaker and topic still to be decided - watch this space SMO |
Last year’s Winter Programme (2007-2008 )
| Date | Event |
| 19 October | Tobar an Dualchas. An Introduction to a digital sound archive with Mairead Macdonald. SMO |
| 9 November | Understanding the Scottish Landscape a talk by Peter Reynolds. In association with the Aberdeen Univeristy Centre for Lifelong Learning. AC Starts 8pm |
| 7 December | Whisky on the Rocks – the Geology of Distilling: a talk by Dr Stephen Cribb. In association with the Aberdeen Univeristy Centre for Lifelong Learning. AC Starts 8pm |
| 18 January | Sleat History Shorts 1. Tonight – a focus on Camuscross. Talla Dearg, Eilean Iarmain |
| 15 February | Recording Scotland’s Rural Past. An introduction to this RCAHMS project by Dr Tertia Barnett SMO |
| 14 March | Sleat History Shorts 2. An open meeting to discuss and plan projects in Sleat as part of the Recording Scotland’s Rural Past programme. A change to the original programme. AC |
| 18 April | Members’ evening. Tales from Old Things. Bring along an old object, a photo or a story and tell us about it, or just come along and listen. SMO |
Summer programme 2008
Friday 29 & Saturday 30 August. Two day training course in recording techniques and fieldwork with the team from Recording Scotland’s Past. For further details contact the Secretary.
Summer programme 2007
Thursday 23 August Surveying gravestone inscriptions, Kilmore Churchyard. Meet at 2pm.
Friday 7 September AGM to be followed by a presentation of the Society’s website. Starts at 7.30 SMO
Saturday 22 September Surveying gravestone inscriptions, Kilmore Churchyard. Meet at 2pm
Saturday 6 October Walk to the cleared village of Morsaig. Meet at 10.30am at the track to the shore at the end of the Drumfern road. Parking is very limited.
A 2 to 3 mile walk each way on rough ground. Bring a packed lunch.
Other Events
Seminar: 4th September, 2008 at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig A one day symposium organised by the AHRC-funded project ‘Window to the West / Uinneag dhan Àird an Iar: Towards a redefinition of the visual within Gaelic Scotland’, a collaboration between Sabhal Mòr Ostaig and the Visual Research Centre of the University of Dundee.
Speakers include: John Purser on the landscape and music of Strath; Meg Bateman on Loch Etive; Hugh Cheape on the photographic achievement of Walter Blaikie in South Uist and Eriskay; Joanna Soden on photographic images by the artist William Gillies; Norman Shaw on his ‘Nemeton’ contemporary art project and David Martin Jones on issues relating to landscape and the past in recent Scottish Gaelic films.
For further details of the programme contact: . For booking contact: Nicola Thomson tel: 01471 888 301 and email: .
5 September Sleat Community Trust AGM, SMO, 10am-12noon
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