Dr David Worthington is Head of the Dornoch-based Centre for History, University of the Highlands and Islands. Among other themes, he researches, writes and lectures on ‘Coastal History’, often exploring this from the perspective of eastern Caithness and Sutherland and their connections across the Moray Firth. This has included a 2011 article in The International Journal of Maritime History and two journal articles coming out this autumn, in The Scottish Historical Review and Rural History respectively. David also runs the ‘Firths and Fjords’ blog, which explores the history of adjacent coasts on a comparative, global basis, a project that emerged from a spring 2016 Dornoch conference for which he was the lead organiser, and ensuing from which he is also editing a book. He would welcome email correspondence with readers of these articles and blog posts, and those interested, more widely in firths and their pasts! For those who don’t have subscription access to the journals mentioned but who would like to learn more, he will also soon be able to provide links to “author’s versions” of the articles, so please do contact him and send him your thoughts on the research at: [email protected]