The second in our series of free public lectures, by Gavin Hunter, takes place on Wednesday April 24th entitled From Whaling to MacFisheries: Leverhulme, Soap & the Outer Hebrides. This lecture will explore the involvement of the Lever Brothers soap manufacturing empire in whaling and fishing on the islands of Lewis and Harris.

The lecture is part of the Moby Dick Lecture Series at the Merseyside Maritime Museum and is free to attend.

Picture of the whaling station on Harris is from Virtual Hebrides.