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David Worthington
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Usually Head @UHIHistory, #ThinkUHI. #CoastalHistory #CuriousCleric. Currently Dean, Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Business and Education, UHI (to 31 July 2026).
Tain, Highlands, Scotland
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    David Worthington
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    Jan 14, 2025
    Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty envisaged (1653) a tertiary Highland university embracing "all sciences, liberal disciplines, arts active and factive, mechanick trades, and whatever concernes either vertue or learning, practical or theoretick". @ThinkUHI archive.org/details/workso…
    The Cromarty Firth, with the settlement of Cromarty on the peninsula to the left.
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    David Worthington
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    Jun 9, 2023
    Am sure it's recognised in Islay and Donegal but am not sure if everyone else in the Highlands and Islands remembers or realises that there is just a 33 mile space between our region of Scotland and the EU.
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    David Worthington
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    Nov 19, 2019
    Day dawns in Dornoch #ThinkUHI
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    David Worthington
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    Feb 12, 2024
    Edinburgh Castle should convey this aspect of its past. However, it's going a step further to name a café - a place for enjoyment, rest and relaxation - in this way. The mistake is to trivialise, and apparently make light of, a hugely painful chapter in Scottish history.
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    Edinburgh Castle
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    Feb 10, 2024
    We are happy to welcome you all back to our newly refurbished Redcoat Café ☕🍰 If you are visiting us over the weekend, pop in for a warm beverage or even a tasty slice of cake 😋
    white table and chairs, wooden floors and roof panels. Big white rectangle planters with green plants.
    Wooden cabinet which has lots of food displayed on it, including cakes, fruit and crisps.
    Close up of table with more table and chairs in background, wooden floors and roof panels. Big white rectangle planters with green plants.
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    David Worthington
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    Jun 3, 2021
    Delighted to sign a book contract with @EdinburghUP. It will rely on (and interrogate) the autobiographical sources left by traveller, scholar and minister, Rev. James Fraser (1634-1709), giving a new view of the Highlands in the century before Culloden #CuriousCleric #ThinkUHI
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    David Worthington
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    Dec 3, 2023
    Having written a book about a 1655 graduate of Aberdeen who knew Gaelic, Scots, English, Latin, some Greek and Hebrew (then picked up French, Spanish, Italian, German, ‘Slavonick’, Hungarian, ‘Bohemian’ and Dutch) I fear these cuts will weaken a culture of internationalism there
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    Phil Baty
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    Dec 2, 2023
    The French, German, Spanish and Italian consulates in Scotland have written to the University of Aberdeen raising concerns about potential cuts to modern language courses. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla…
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    David Worthington
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    Apr 11, 2024
    A vital element in Highland religious history is the variety of Protestant churches which have had congregations. But the Orange Order has not had a major presence. So, why alienate most people further, and cause major disruption, by marching on a Sat afternoon in Inverness?
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    The Highland Council
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    Apr 10, 2024
    A parade taking place in Inverness on Saturday 20 April 2024, between 14:45 to 16:30, will affect various streets in the area including: Victoria Drive, Crown Drive, Crown Road, Eastgate, High Street, Bridge Street, Castle Road, Ness Bank and Cavell Gardens, Haugh Road.
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    David Worthington
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    Jun 10, 2023
    Replying to @WorthingtonD
    I wasn't expecting this reaction. Of course, the shortest route between Scotland and Northern Ireland is the Kintyre to Antrim one. I was noting, simply, that Islay, in the Highlands and Islands region where I live, is the nearest part of Scotland to the Republic of Ireland.
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    David Worthington
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    Dec 24, 2020
    Tragic to lose Erasmus. This breaking of vital, scholarly ties with our European neighbours is not what the Highlands and Islands or Scotland voted for. It won't last.
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    The Independent
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    Dec 24, 2020
    UK ‘decided not to stay in Erasmus exchange programme’, EU says independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
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    David Worthington
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    Jun 14, 2020
    I rarely find time for fiction, but read His Bloody Project by @GMacraeBurnet finally this w/end. I'm working on a genuine Highland memoir of 200 years earlier, and this novel's giving me major cause to reflect more on the power of creative writing in presenting cultural memory.
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    David Worthington
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    Mar 27, 2019
    On returning to his Highland home in 1660, after three years of travel, James Fraser (1634-1709) was fluent in Scots Gaelic, Scots and English, with a good knowledge of Latin and Hebrew, along with some Greek, French, Spanish, Italian, German and Hungarian. #multilingualisnormal
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    David Worthington
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    May 10, 2019
    My article ‘Sugar, Slave-Owning, Suriname and the Dutch Imperial Entanglement of the Scottish Highlands before 1707’ is available now, in online form:
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    Sugar, Slave-Owning, Suriname and the Dutch Imperial Entanglement of the Scottish Highlands before...
    This article uncovers the Scottish Highlands’ earliest-known overseas slave-owning circle and the imperial entanglement with the Dutch Empire and its sugar on which this depended. It thus provides ...
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    David Worthington
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    Jan 8, 2023
    My new book is out. Haven't received my own copies yet, but this is exciting to see. #CuriousCleric #EarlyModern #ScottishHistory #Highlands
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    Russell Newton
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    Jan 7, 2023
    Another exciting arrival in today’s post! @WorthingtonD’s Rev. James Fraser, 1634–1709. Looking forward to learning more about the #CuriousCleric
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    David Worthington
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    Aug 20, 2018
    Exciting to see @SabhalMorOstaig library receive Sorley MacLean's book collection. Covering 1,800 titles 'especially English and Gaelic literature, Highland history and the arts', this will be a hugely important resource for @ThinkUHI students and staff: smo.uhi.ac.uk/en/naidheachda…