David Worthington
davidworthington.bsky.social
David Worthington
@davidworthington.bsky.social
Historian. Manager. Interim Dean, Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Business and Education, University of the Highlands and Islands. https://www.uhi.ac.uk/en/about-uhi/senior-management/professor-david-worthington/
James Fraser or Mary, Queen of Scots? The choice is yours on this shelf in Waterstone's, Inverness.
May 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Nice to see this poster in the window of Waterstones Inverness, advertising an upcoming event (17 May) with Jennifer Henderson and myself, chaired by @shonamaclean.bsky.social. It will focus on approaches to researching and writing Highland lives, with a strong focus on #EarlyModern themes.
April 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
In 1653, Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty envisaged a new, tertiary, Highland university embracing "all sciences, liberal disciplines, arts active and factive, mechanick trades, and whatever concernes either vertue or learning, practical or theoretick". 372 years on...

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January 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Dornoch Beach. No @uhihistory.bsky.social team sledging down this hill on this occasion, @karlykehoe.bsky.social
January 12, 2025 at 12:46 PM