Michael Hamish Glen

About Michael Hamish Glen

Michael's career has involved work in a reference library, bookshops, broadcasting, printing, publishing, tourism management, public relations, graphic design, training, creative writing and administration with a host of different employers including himself. He was 'captured' by the process of heritage interpretation in 1969 although it was some years before it became a full-time occupation. He has helped to found AHI (as SIBH) in 1975, Interpret Europe in 2010 and GAHI in 2019. He has enjoyed a long association with AHI in various roles and is the retiring Treasurer. He believes interpretation is, as an Italian friend described it, a 'mission' as well as an art and a science, one that depends greatly on intellect and inspiration, rather than formula, and a burning wish to widen people's horizons. He likes RIcky Gershon's definition of the process as 'great explanations'.