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“Martin Martin: early modern Hebridean traveller and author” by Dr Donald William Stewart

Dr Donald William Stewart relates the travels and texts of Martin Martin and their description of life in Western Scotland.

Lecture by Dr Donald William Stewart, Sabhal Mor Ostaig, University of the Highlands and Islands, on the travels and texts of Martin Martin and their description of life in Western Scotland.

Recorded in the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 10 March 2014 at 6pm.

Dr Domhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart divides his time between Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, the Gaelic college affiliated to the University of the Highlands and Islands, where he is Course Leader of the MSc in Material Culture and Gàidhealtachd History, and the Centre for Research Collections at Edinburgh University Library, where he is Senior Researcher at the Carmichael Watson Project, presently finishing off a Leverhulme-funded investigation of the material collections of the major but controversial Highland folklorist Alexander Carmichael (1832–1912). He has just completed a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship at the UHI, examining the life, work, and influence of the Hebridean traveller, ethnologist, and author Martin Martin (c. 1665–1718). Subjects for recent papers include Gaelic healing charms, second sight, Hebridean Michaelmas, Highland sexuality, folklore recording going wrong, and seventeenth-century estate rentals from the Island of Tiree.