Professor Jim Hunter, author of the ground breaking “Making of the Crofting Community”, is much in demand all over the UK so the Heritage Centre is proud to have booked him for October 2014’s Book Week.
.At 2pm on 21 October he will introduce his latest book, “From the Low Tide of the Sea to the Highest Mountain Tops” , a detailed review of the experiences of community land ownership ventures in Scotland.
At 7.30 p.m there will be a round table discussion: Are There Lessons for Lismore? Was anything ever more topical?
Jim Hunter, now Emeritus Professor of History at the University of the Highlands and Islands, was the first Director of the Centre for History and was instrumental in its establishment in 2005.
He has written eleven books about the Highlands and Islands and in the mid-1980s, he became the first director of the Scottish Crofters’ Union, now the Scottish Crofting Federation. Between 1998 and 2004 he was chairman of Highlands and Islands Enterprise, the north of Scotland’s development agency. In the course of a varied career, Jim Hunter has also been an award-winning journalist and broadcaster.