Current Projects
I will be lecturing at this year's FACLAN event, the Hebridean Book Festival. The confirmed dates are September 1st in Barra, September 2nd on Benbecula, September 3rd on Harris and September 4th in Stornoway.
I will be presenting my "Destination St. Kilda" lecture to the Royal Scottish Geographical Society later this year. Confirmed dates are September 20th in Kirkcaldy, December 1st in Dunfermline, December 2nd in Glasgow and December 6th in Inverness.
The "Destination St. Kilda" lecture will also be part of an author event at Waterstone's in Oban on August 18th.
I will be sailing as the Royal Astronomical Society speaker for Cunard, onboard Queen Mary 2 on their transatlantic voyage from Southampton to New York, departing in October 2010. I recently sailed on the Queen Mary 2 as the Royal Astronomical Society Lecturer from New York to Southampton.
Look out for me onboard The Hebridean Princess in November 2011. I will be giving two magic lantern lectures onboard during their "Inner Hebridean Prospector" cruise.
On Tuesday July 13th I did a live radio interview with BBC Good Morning Scotland to discuss my new book. The same day I did a short piece with the BBC Reporting Scotland News bulletin discussing the book. The broadcast included footage of my lantern and some of the slides.
On July 14th I did a short interview with Scottish Television for their evening News Bulletin, discussing the book.
My book and slides were the highlight of a Cafe Scientifique discussion forum at Waterstones book shop, Union Bridge, Aberdeen, on Wednesday 14th July.
During February 2010, I presented "Geared to the Stars - Victorian Astronomy through the Magic Lantern" as part of the ‘'Professor Pepper’s Ghost’ - Six MORE evenings of optical magic at the old Polytechnic' lecture series at the University of Westminster in Regents Street, London. In March 2010 I lectured for Hebridean Island Cruises onboard their ship "The Hebridean Princess", presenting "Down the Clyde to Argyll" plus "Geared to the Stars".
I recently worked with the BBC, providing images for programs in their "Who Do You Think You Are?" and "The Scottish Clans" series. I have supplied a large range of historical images to the The Highland Council's bilingual web site, Am Baile.
Several of my images appear in Martin Padget's new book "Photographers of the Western Isles". Published by Birlinn, the ISBN is 978-0859767040
Recent articles include: "Focus on the Clyde", for the "The Hebridean Times", the customer magazine of the Hebridean Princess cruise ship. Also, 'Imaging a Continent: the George Washington Wilson & Co's Lantern Slides of Australia'. Published in Early Popular Visual Culture (Routledge) in November 2009, it was awarded 2nd place in the 2008-2009 Projection Box Essay Awards. Published in Australia was 'Imaging The Past', Outback Magazine, RM Williams. You can purchase copies of the published images from www.priscus.co.uk. Details of the magazine can be found at Outback Magazine.
I provide expertise on business management and professional presentations as a Royal Society of Edinburgh Mentor to Enterprise Fellows.
I have an ongoing responsibility to develop the web site for The Magic Lantern Society (www.magiclantern.org.uk) and The Stirling Astronomical Society (www.stirlingastronomicalsociety.org.uk). I offer Victorian photographs of Scotland, England and Australia through my web site Priscus (www.priscus.co.uk).