Dr James Hunter CBE

Order of the British Empire

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 (born 1948) is currently Director for the UHI

UHI Millennium Institute

The University of the Highlands and Islands is a federation of 13 colleges and research institutions in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland delivering higher education. Its executive office is in Inverness.-History:...

 Centre for History, Chairman of the Isle of Eigg Heritage Trust and formerly the Chairman of Highlands and Islands Enterprise

Highlands and Islands Enterprise

Highlands and Islands Enterprise is the Scottish Government's economic and community development agency for a diverse region which covers more than half of Scotland and is home to around 450,000 people....

, the Inverness

Inverness

Inverness is a city in the Scottish Highlands. It is the administrative centre for the Highland council area, and is regarded as the capital of the Highlands of Scotland...

-based development and training agency for the North of Scotland

Scotland

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. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

He is a freelance historian

Historian

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 and author, and has written twelve books on Highlands and Islands

Highlands and Islands

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 themes.

He gave the first Sabhal Mòr Lecture

Sabhal Mòr Lectures

The Sabhal Mòr Lectures are a series of annual televised lectures held at the college Sabhal Mòr Ostaig on Skye, Scotland. The lectures are held in English, but focus on topics related to the Scottish Gaelic language, often with emphasis on related economic or cultural issues...

 in 1990.

Works

From British Library

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catalogue (Accessed January 2007).

• 1986. Skye : the island. Edinburgh: Mainstream. ISBN 1851580174.
• 1991. The claim of crofting : the Scottish Highlands and Islands, 1930-1990. Edinburgh: Mainstream. ISBN 1851583297.
• 1991. Rural poverty and deprivation in Europe : from analysis to action : report of a seminar held in Scotland from 7 to 11 October 1990 . Enstone: Arkleton Trust. ISBN 0906724406.
• 1992. Scottish highlanders : a people and their place. Edinburgh: Mainstream. ISBN 1851584439.
• 1994. A dance called America : the Scottish Highlands, the United States and Canada. Edinburgh: Mainstream. ISBN 1851586393.
• 1995. On the other side of sorrow : nature and people in the Scottish Highlands. Edinburgh: Mainstream. ISBN 1851587659.
• 1996. Towards a land reform agenda for a Scots parliament. Perth: Rural Forum Scotland. ISBN 1851587659.
• 1996. Glencoe and the Indians : a real-life family saga which spans two continents, several centuries and more than thirty generations to link Scotland’s clans with the native peoples of the American West. Edinburgh: Mainstream. ISBN 1851588299.
• 1999. Last of the free : a millennial history of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland Edinburgh: Mainstream. ISBN 1840183764.
• 2000. Making of the crofting community. Edinburgh: John Donald. ISBN 0859765377.
• 2001. Culloden and the last clansman. Edinburgh: Mainstream. ISBN 1840184833.
• 2006. Fonn's Duthchas. National Museums of Scotland. ISBN 9781905267064.
• 2007. Scottish Exodus: Travels among a worldwide clan'. Edinburgh: Mainstream. ISBN 9781845961169.

With Others

• Edited by Celeste Ray; foreword by James Hunter (2005). Transatlantic Scots. London: University of Alabama Press. ISBN 0817314733.