http://www.thetravellingscholars.com/rssnews.asp The Travelling Scholars | News There was ice on the ground, snow on the roads, and frost in the air, but still eight people came along to the Old Brewery in Cromarty to explore with Howie Firth the nature of time, with the starting http://www.thetravellingscholars.com/news.asp?id=31515 http://www.thetravellingscholars.com/news.asp?id=31515 16 November 2010 20 people turned out on a snowy night at the Coigach Community Hall in Achiltibuie to hear how four men in war-torn 17th-century Europe fought a battle of ideas. The hall was a warm and comfortable se http://www.thetravellingscholars.com/news.asp?id=31447 http://www.thetravellingscholars.com/news.asp?id=31447 13 November 2010 Howie Firth spoke on ‘The Broch-Builders of Strathnaver’ showing how various patterns of the Iron Age broch towers can be analysed by statistics, relating to wall thicknesses, base diamete http://www.thetravellingscholars.com/news.asp?id=31446 http://www.thetravellingscholars.com/news.asp?id=31446 12 November 2010 Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4/* Style Definitions */table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow:yes;mso-s http://www.thetravellingscholars.com/news.asp?id=31445 http://www.thetravellingscholars.com/news.asp?id=31445 05 November 2010 Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4Howie Firth spoke on ‘The Iron Men of Dunbeath’ – a search for the nature of the broch builders and their times. He described the chal http://www.thetravellingscholars.com/news.asp?id=31444 http://www.thetravellingscholars.com/news.asp?id=31444 04 November 2010 Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) }/* Style Definitions */table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size http://www.thetravellingscholars.com/news.asp?id=28933 http://www.thetravellingscholars.com/news.asp?id=28933 01 November 2010 For this very small village, a different format was tried out – a ‘walk and talk’, going to various parts of the area of Dunnet Head, from the lighthouse on the headland itself with http://www.thetravellingscholars.com/news.asp?id=31443 http://www.thetravellingscholars.com/news.asp?id=31443 20 October 2010 Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) }/* Style Definitions */table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size http://www.thetravellingscholars.com/news.asp?id=28937 http://www.thetravellingscholars.com/news.asp?id=28937 20 October 2010 Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4 45 people came to hear the second of Howie Firth’s talks at Caithness Horizons, this time on ‘Rethinking the Picts: the voice of ancient s http://www.thetravellingscholars.com/news.asp?id=28934 http://www.thetravellingscholars.com/news.asp?id=28934 13 October 2010 Despite the counter-attractions of the Mod, more than 40 people turned out at Caithness Horizons to hear Howie Firth give the first of a series of three talks on science and history for Highland Archa http://www.thetravellingscholars.com/news.asp?id=28936 http://www.thetravellingscholars.com/news.asp?id=28936 12 October 2010