The Sixteenth Century in the Highlands

• Ronald Black: The Dewar MSS as a source for Sixteenth-Century Highland History.
• Thomas Brochard: Lay Piety in the Northern Highlands, 1500 – 1625.
• David Caldwell: King James V’s expedition to the Northern and Western Isles in 1540.
• Elizabeth Ewan, University of Guelph and University of the Highlands & Islands: A Highland Town and its Hinterland: the Inverness Burgh Court Records 1556 – 1586 as a source for life in the Highlands.
• Aonghas MacCoinnich, University of Glasgow: ‘Thus do the tryb of Clankenzie become great in these parts’. The rise of the Clan Mackenzie, c. 1508-1604.
• Martin MacGregor, University of Glasgow: Reforming Breadalbane: The Campbells of Glen Orchy, local absolutism and the Scottish state, 1550 – 1631.
• Allan MacInnes, Emeritus Prof of History, University of Strathclyde: The Rise of the Slate Industry, c. 1350 – 1633.
• Alan Macquarrie, Hon. Research Fellow, University of Glasgow: Before Carsuel: Reform in the Diocese of the Isles in the middle of the 16th Century.
• James Petre: ‘The chiefest persons of the west isles’? The MacDonalds of Glengarry and Clan Donald North in the 16th Century, c. 1539-1602.
• Katharina Pruente, University of Stirling: ‘Ita est Patricius Miller notarius publicus’: Patrick Miller, the fifth earl of Argyll, and the role of notaries in the western Highlands.