Book Talk: Northern Isles No More by Marjory Harper

Join historian Marjory Harper at Dornoch Bookshop for a talk on Northern Isles No More?, her rich account of emigration from Orkney and Shetland since 1700. Drawing on personal letters, diaries and archival research, Marjory traces the reasons islanders left, the journeys they made, and the lasting ties they kept to home. 

This event is held in collaboration with the University of the Highlands and Islands’ Centre for History.

MARJORY HARPER is a Professor of History at the University of Aberdeen and an Associate Professor at the UHI 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.