James Hunter

Dr James Hunter CBE (Born 1948) is currently Director for the UHI Centre for History, Chairman of the Isle of Eigg Heritage Trust and vice Chairman of Highland 2007 and formerly the Chairman of Highlands and Islands Enterprise, the Inverness-based development and training agency for the North of Scotland. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

He is a freelance historian and author, and has written twelve books on Highlands and Islands themes – including A Dance Called America, The Making of the Crofting Community and On the Other Side of Sorrow: Nature and People in the Scottish Highlands.

James Hunter was born and brought up in Duror, North Argyll. He was educated at Oban High School and Aberdeen and Edinburgh Universities. He has been a journalist and broadcaster and was the first director of the Scottish Crofters Union (now the Scottish Crofting Foundation) which he helped set up. A longstanding campaigner for land reform of the sort now resulting in community ownership of localities like Knoydart and Gigha, James has a detailed knowledge of developmental, environmental and related issues.

He gave the first Sabhal Mòr Lecture in 1990.

Works

From British Library catalogue (Accessed January 2007).

* 1986. "Skye : the island". Edinburgh: Mainstream. ISBN 1851580174.
* 1991. "The claim of crofting : the Scottish Highlands and Islands, 1930-1990". Edinburgh: Mainstream. ISBN 1851583297.
* 1991. "Rural poverty and deprivation in Europe : from analysis to action : report of a seminar held in Scotland from 7 to 11 October 1990 ". Enstone: Arkleton Trust. ISBN 0906724406.
* 1992. "Scottish highlanders : a people and their place". Edinburgh: Mainstream. ISBN 1851584439.
* 1994. "A dance called America : the Scottish Highlands, the United States and Canada". Edinburgh: Mainstream. ISBN 1851586393.
* 1995. "On the other side of sorrow : nature and people in the Scottish Highlands". Edinburgh: Mainstream. ISBN 1851587659.
* 1996. "Towards a land reform agenda for a Scots parliament". Perth: Rural Forum Scotland. ISBN 1851587659.
* 1996. "Glencoe and the Indians : a real-life family saga which spans two continents, several centuries and more than thirty generations to link Scotland’s clans with the native peoples of the American West". Edinburgh: Mainstream. ISBN 1851588299.
* 1999. "Last of the free : a millennial history of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland" Edinburgh: Mainstream. ISBN 1840183764.
* 2000. "Making of the crofting community". Edinburgh: John Donald. ISBN 0859765377.
* 2001. "Culloden and the last clansman". Edinburgh: Mainstream. ISBN 1840184833.
* 2006. "Fonn's Duthchas". National Museums of Scotland. ISBN 9781905267064.
* 2007. "Scottish Exodus: Travels among a worldwide clan'. Edinburgh: Mainstream. ISBN 9781845961169.

With Others

* Edited by Celeste Ray; foreword by James Hunter (2005). "Transatlantic Scots". London: University of Alabama Press. ISBN 0817314733.