2026 Events Program
Saturday 14th March, 7.30pm, Tong Hall, Isle of Lewis: Showing of rare videos about local woman Isabella MacIver Thomson (1856 – 1949), ‘The First Lewis Woman in Athabasca’. Free event. No booking required.
Tuesday 14th – Wednesday 15th April, Runavík, Faroes: Population and Cultural Change in the Faroes and Hebrides in the Early Viking Period 👉 More Information
Friday 24th April 7:30pm, Northern Sands Hotel, Dunnet, Caithness: Launch event for ‘A Boy Stands on a Headland’ by George Gunn. There will be an optional visit to Dunnet Kirk at 7.00pm before the book launch. Free event. No booking required.
Monday 11th May 7:30pm, Ravenspoint, Kershader, Isle of Lewis: Launch event for ‘Between the Echoes’ by Angus Macmillan. Free event. No booking required.
Wednesday 13th May: 7.30pm, New Lewis, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis: Launch event for ‘Between the Echoes’ by Angus Macmillan. Free event. No booking required.
Saturday 16th May, 10.30am, Benbecula: Boat Trip to the Monach Isles from Poll nan Crann
(Stinky Bay), Benbecula. £100 per head. Places limited, advanced booking essential. e-mail sales@islandsbooktrust.org to book your place.
Wednesday 27th May, 4.00pm, Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh: Launch event for ‘Between the Echoes’ by Angus Macmillan. Free event. Bookings required via www.scottishstorytellingcentre.com
Saturday 30th May, An Crubh, Skye: ‘We Need Not Abjure All Sprites’ – Authenticity and Mythology in Gaeldom. Speakers include Coinneach Maclean, Dòmhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart. No booking required. £10 (£5 IBT Members)
Saturday 6th June - Taigh Sgire Sholais, North Uist: Launch of Donald Macaulay’s new book Echoes from an Island’s Past – Early Ecclesiastical Sites on North Uist (followed by a visit to some of the local sites). Free event. No booking required.
Saturday 13th June, 10.00am - Resource Centre, Kershader, Isle of Lewis: Talk about the History of Eilean Chaluim Chille, Crobeg, South Lochs, Lewis, followed by a visit to the island and the ruins of its early Christian church. Free event. Booking no required.
Saturday 27th June, 11.00am – Resource Centre, Kershader, Isle of Lewis: Launch event for ‘Our New Crofting Life’ by Isabella De Santis and David Bartles-Smith, followed by a visit to Croft 17/18 Lemreway. Free event. No booking required.
Saturday 18th July – Comunn Eachdraidh Nis, Cross, Lewis: Talk ‘From McBref to Morrison - Documentary Sources for the Brieves of Ness c.1500-1723’ by Aonghas MacCoinnich (with others). Free event. Booking not required.
Saturday 1st August – From Husinish, Harris: Boat trip to Scarp from Husinish (Harris). Further details to be announced. Booking required.
Saturday 15th August – Kinloch, Lewis: Talk and Boat Trip from Keose to the former settlement at Suardal (Swordale), Kinloch, Lewis with Iain Mackenzie. Booking required.
Thursday 20th August, 6.00pm, Portree Library, Skye: Launch of Marc Calhoun book ‘Thirty Years of Adventures in Search of the Past – Skye and the Small Isles’. No booking required. Free event.
Saturday 5th September, 11.00am – Breasclete Community Centre, Isle of Lewis: Talk by Ian McHardy on the possible source of the Callanish Stones, followed by a visit to a possible quarry site. No booking required. Free event.
Saturday 21st November. Edinburgh Zoo Education Centre: Book Launch for Philippe Laplace ‘St Kilda Transformed – A New Annotated Edition of ‘Episode in the Life of Rev. Neil MacKenzie’ (J B MacKenzie (1911). Further details to be announced.