STORNOWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY SUMMER LECTURE
THE SOCIETY IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT PROFESSOR MARJORY HARPER, ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY, WILL DELIVER A LECTURE ENTITLED
“BEFORE AND AFTER THE METAGAMA: TWO CENTURIES OF HEBRIDEAN EMIGRATION”
AT 7pm ON TUESDAY 8TH AUGUST 2023
AT THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, CnES OFFICES, SANDWICK ROAD, STORNOWAY
DOORS OPEN 6.30pm
DONATIONS WELCOME AT ENTRY
MARJORY HARPER is a Professor of History at the University of Aberdeen and an Associate Professor at the University of the Highlands and Islands’ Centre for History. Her study of Scottish emigration in the nineteenth century, Adventurers and Exiles, won the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year Prize in 2004. With Professor Stephen Constantine, she co-authored Migration and Empire (2010), a companion volume in the Oxford History of the British Empire. She has published several books and articles on Scottish migration, and, working in partnership with Dr Nicholas J Evans of the University of Hull, launched the Scottish Emigration Database in 2005. https://www.abdn.ac.uk/emigration/