David Alston is a Historian and Independent Researcher. He is the author of Ross & Cromarty: A Historical Guide (1997) and My Little Town of Cromarty; The History of a Northern scottish Town (2006).He is a Highalnd Councillor and from 1991-2003 was curator/manager of Cromarty Courthouse Museum. He has published articles on the Highlands and Slavery: Very Rapid and Splendid Fortunes' Highland Scots in Berbice (Guyana) in the early nineteenth century, in Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, (2007) and wrote a chapter in the T.D. devine edited collection 'Recovering Scotland's Slavery Past' (EUP, 2015).
