Editorial
Firstly I should apologise for not doing an AHCS newsletter in the autumn of last year to review the activities of our members in 2025 (which I have tried to cover in this issue). Unfortunately I was busier than ever last autumn with research, writing, and editing, including compiling the quarterly Journal of the Highland Family History Society and the annual Clan MacMillan International Magazine. One of the problems that we have regarding the AHCS is that we’re all busy doing other things. Most of us hold voluntary positions in our own clan societies, alongside—for our younger members at least—jobs required to bring in the daily bread. That leaves precious little time for an organisation that, while it may once have been seen to have had a wider purpose—speaking for clans in the Highlands who felt neglected by the powers that be in Edinburgh— now appears to exist just to run the clan tent at the Inverness Highland Games. Though we gather each year at Culloden, we do so there mainly in our individual clan groups; so the Inverness Games and our AGM that weekend are really the extent of our activities (though some hope we might still revive autumn visits to clan centres, castles, or museums).
So what about the Inverness Games?
Click to view the Association-of-Higfhland-Clans-and-Societies-Newsletter-April-2026.pdf
