The Scottish Local History Forum will be holding a mini conference to be held on Zoom over two early evenings on Wednesday April 28th and Thursday April 29th.

The programme is:

April 28
5:00pm – Welcome and Introduction: Professor Chris Whatley OBE, Honorary President, Scottish Local History Forum
5:10pm – Eric Graham: The Scottish Plantocracy & the Compensation Lists
5:40pm – Alison Clark: Links and Legacies between the Scottish Highlands and the Caribbean: The Case of James McInroy (1759-1825)
6:10pm – Stuart Nisbet: Slavery and the Local Landscape

April 29
5:00pm – David Alston: Sackcloth, sugar and salt herring: Cromarty’s entanglement in slavery
5:30pm – David Worthington: The North Highlands, Sugar and Slavery in Late-Seventeenth Century Suriname
6:00pm – Iain Whyte: Two bids for liberation in 18th century Ayrshire and Fife. The cases of Jamie from Virginia and David from Grenada
6:30pm – Closing comments: Professor Chris Whatley OBE, Honorary President, Scottish Local History Forum

The majority of the mini-conference was recorded and is available by following these links:

April 28 - Recording [1]
Passcode: 7b.n#gsM

April 29 - Recording [2]
Passcode: 7K!@HtTx