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History talks and events 1 - 7 February 2016

26/1/2016

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Upcoming family history talks and events in Scotland, 1 - 7 February 2016

Note that there may be a small charge for some of these events, and some may be for members only. We will be publishing lists of upcoming talks and events regularly - if you are organising a talk or event relating to Scottish genealogy or history, please let us know and we will be happy to add your events to our list.

Monday, February 1 2016, 6.00 pm - 7.00 pm

6,000 Years of Architecture, Innovation and Design

Venue: Auditorium, National Museums Scotland, Chambers Street

Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

A journey through Scottish architecture from the earliest buildings to today’s tower blocks. Our three speakers have each been given a period of Scotland’s past and presented the challenge to choose their three examples of architectural innovation and design that changed the face of Scotland. Come and hear their choices and contribute your own! Chair: Prof. Karen Forbes (Edinburgh College of Art) Prehistory (earliest people to 600 AD): Dr Tanja Romankiewicz (Edinburgh University) Medieval (600 AD to Union of the Crowns): Prof. Richard Oram (Stirling University) Modern (Union of the Crowns to today): John Lowrey (ECA) Discussion


Monday, February 1 2016, 6.30 pm

Building Scotland's Canals

Nick Haynes

Venue: St Andrew’s and St George’s West Church, 13 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 2PA

Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland

Nick Haynes is a freelance architectural historian, writer, researcher, historic environment consultant, and treasurer of Docomomo Scotland. He is the author of a number of publications including An Architectural History of the University of Glasgow, Scotland’s Sporting Buildings and Scotland’s Canals for Historic Scotland. Nick is currently working on an architectural history of the University of Edinburgh.


Monday, February 1 2016, 7.30 pm

Treasure Trove in Scotland and Recent Archaeological Finds in Ayrshire and the South

Dr Natasha Ferguson

Venue: John Knox Church Hall, High Street, Stewarton

Stewarton and District Historical Society

The Treasure Trove Officer for the National Museums of Scotland explains how Treasure Trove protects found objects which have cultural significance


Monday, February 1 2016, 7.30 pm

Working Class Courtship and Marriage, 1855-1939

Prof Eleanor Gordon

Venue: St Andrews Church, Park Road, Milngavie

Milngavie and Bearsden Historical Society

Professor Eleanor Gordon will focus on the diverse nature of the working class family and will illustrate how premarital sex, cohabitation and marriage breakdown are by no means new phenomena.


Monday, February 1 2016, 7.30 pm

Prestwick in the Fifties

John Hope

Venue: Loudoun Hall, Boat Vennel, Ayr

Kyle and Carrick Civic Society


Monday, February 1 2016, 7.30 pm

Glasgow Bridges

Tom Marchant

Venue: Morison Memorial Church, Dumbarton Road, Clydebank

Clydebank Local History Society


Monday, February 1 2016, 8 pm

Archaeological Landscapes: the Present in the Past

Alex Hale, RCAHMS

Venue: Dreghorn Loan Hall, Colinton, EH13 0DE

Colinton Local History Society


Tuesday, February 2 2016, 6.45 pm for 7.15 pm

Craiglockhart Hospital

Rev Prof David Fergusson

Venue: Morningside Parish Church Hall

Morningside Heritage Association


Tuesday, February 2 2016, 7.30 pm

The Victoria Cross

Alexander Hall

Venue: Kilmarnock College, Holehouse Rd, Kilmarnock

Kilmarnock & District History Group


Tuesday, February 2 2016, 7.30 pm

Postscript to the Past: Lost Mansions and Houses of Renfrewshire

Dan Sweeney

Venue: Fairweather Hall, Barrhead Road, Newton Mearns, G77 6BB

Mearns History Group

The presentation will include some of the lost mansions of Mearns such as Hazelden, Southfield and Barcapel.


Wednesday, February 3 2016, 2.00 pm

A History of Drinking

Anthony Cooke

Venue: National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW

Scottish Local History Forum

Journey through the history of drinking in Scotland with Anthony Cooke. Public drinking places played an important and controversial role in Scottish society over the centuries, providing space for life rituals such as birth, marriage and death. They also provoked a backlash in the form of the temperance movement. Hosted by the National Library of Scotland in association with the Scottish Local History Forum. Free but places are limited. To book a seat go to http://www.nls.uk/events


Wednesday, February 3 2016, 6.30 pm

Fashioning an Identity on the Fairways: A history of golfing dress

Hannah Fleming (British Golf Museum)

Venue: Lecture Theatre 2, Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee

Abertay Historical Society


Thursday, February 4 2016, 1.00 pm

Inuit Relations with Dundonians

William Kerr

Venue: Glasite Hall, St. Andrew’s Church, King Street, Dundee

Friends of Dundee City Archives


Thursday, February 4 2016, 7.30 pm - 9.30 pm

Highlanders on the Titanic

Norman Newton

Venue: Outdoor Bowling Clubhouse, Ferry Brae, North Kessock, IV1 3YH

North Kessock & District Local History Society


Saturday, February 6 2016, 10 am - 12 pm

Tax Records

Joy Dodd

Venue: Scottish Genealogy Society Library, 15 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh, EH1 2JL

Scottish Genealogy Society

Everyone thinks the Poll Tax was invented by Margaret Thatcher but did you know it was around in the 17th Century? In the 18th Century windows, servants, horses, dogs and other items were taxed. Joy Dodd will give a talk on how to access those records and what they contain.


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History talks 25-31 January 2016

19/1/2016

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Upcoming family history talks and events in Scotland, 25 - 31 January 2016

Note that there may be a small charge for some of these events, and some may be for members only. We will be publishing lists of upcoming talks and events regularly - if you are organising a talk or event relating to Scottish genealogy or history, please let us know and we will be happy to add your events to our list.


Monday, January 25 2016, 2.00 pm - 3.00 pm

Plague!

Dr Anette Hagan

Venue: National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW

Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

Join Dr Anette Hagan on a curator led tour of “Plague!” The new exhibition at the National Library of Scotland showcases eight contagious diseases that have ravaged Scotland over the last 700 years, and relates the cultural and social history of responses to such epidemics. It highlights government and public health measures, personal accounts in diaries and letters, moral and practical reactions by church people, responses in folk medicine and literature, and through medical investigation. For Fellows only. Free but ticketed. Booking essential as places are strictly limited.


Monday, January 25 2016, 7.30 pm

Family History at the Mitchell

Dr Irene O'Brien

Venue: Caldwell Halls, 16 Campsie Road, Torrance, G64 4BN

Torrance Heritage and History Group


Monday, January 25 2016, 7.30 pm

Alcohol and the Liver: Imagery & Indulgence

Dr Stefan Slater

Venue: Millennium Room, Cramond Kirk Hall

Cramond Heritage Trust

Dr Stefan Slater tells the story of alcohol and the liver in prose, poetry and art, and describes world differences in the amount we drink and in our tolerance to it


Monday, January 25 2016, 7.30 pm

Local and family history resources in the A K Bell Library

Colin Proudfoot

Venue: Stanley Village Hall

West Stormont Historical Society

Non-members: adults £3, concessions £2. (Open discussion meetings at Luncarty are free)


Monday, January 25 2016, 7.30 pm - 9.30 pm

Birds of the Upper River Forth

Professor David Bryant

Venue: Alloa Town Hall (Tommy Downs Room)

Clackmannanshire Field Studies Society

Speaker is Professor of Conservation Biology, Exeter University


Wednesday, January 27 2016, 7.30 pm

Culloden Estate: a local history case study from the 18th century to the Great War

Norman Newton

Venue: Highland Archive Centre, Bught Park, Inverness

Highland Family History Society


Wednesday, January 27 2016, 7.30 pm

More Round and About in the Borders

John Rogerson

Venue: Volunteer Hall, Galashiels

Old Gala Club


Thursday, January 28 2016, 7.30 pm

Rocks and Fossils

Dr John Faithfull

Venue: Glen Halls, Neilston

Barrhead & Neilston Historical Association


Thursday, January 28 2016, 7.30 pm

Life in Prehistoric Ayrshire, 4000-2000 BC

Alison Sheridan, National Museums of Scotland

Venue: Town Hall, Ayr

Ayrshire Archaeological and Natural History Society


Thursday, January 28 2016, 7.30 pm

Treasures of the Smith

Elspeth King

Venue: Smith Museum and Art Gallery

Stirling Local History Society


Thursday, January 28 2016, 7.30 pm

East Lothian: a wartime backwater?

David Haire

Venue: Dirleton Kirk Hall

Gullane and Dirleton History Society


Thursday, January 28 2016, 7.45 pm

War Secrets - from incontinent seagulls to luminous sea-lions!

Dave Harvie

Venue: Drymen Village Hall, Main Street, Drymen, Glasgow, G63 0BP

Drymen & District Local History Society

Dave Harvie’s talk is on the aftermath of the sinking of RMS Lusitania by a German U-boat in 1915, when a desperate Admiralty devised some bizarre, top secret plans.


Friday, January 29 2016

Death and Identity in Scotland from the Medieval to the Modern: Beliefs, Attitudes and Practices

Venue: New College, University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

Death and Identity in Scotland from the Medieval to the Modern: Beliefs, Attitudes and Practices is taking place on Friday 29 January to Sunday 31 January 2016 at New College, University of Edinburgh. 29 January - 31 January. This is the third in a series of conferences that aims to accelerate interest and research into Scottish death studies. The theme for 2016 is death and identity. Papers are invited to explore this subject within any period from the medieval into the modern day from any disciplinary perspective. Established research and work-in-progress welcomed.


Saturday, January 30 2016, 2.00 pm

AGM

Venue: Potting Shed Coffee Shop, Mackenzie & Cruickshank, 1 West Road, Forres, IV36 2GW

Moray & Nairn Family History Society


Saturday, January 30 2016, 2.00 pm

Pitfalls of registering heraldic style trademarks

Campbell Newell

Venue: Royal Scots Club, Abercromby Place, Edinburgh

The Heraldry Society of Scotland


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A Hair-raising tax

12/1/2016

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In times of war and austerity, governments need to raise funds somehow. That hasn't changed in the 215 years since this advert was placed in the 7th April 1800 issue of The Aberdeen Journal:

HAIR POWDER TAX
Stamp Office, Edinburgh, March 25 1800
The HEAD DISTRIBUTOR of his MAJESTY’S STAMP DUTIES in NORTH BRITAIN, in pursuance of “An Act for granting to his Majesty a Duty on Certificates issued for using Hair Powder”, hereby gives notice to every Person using or wearing Hair Powder, that they will receive Certificates for the ensuing year, from 5th April 1800 to 5th April 1801, at the following places, viz.
HEAD OFFICE AT EDINBURGH
1. DUNDEE
Dundee                John Alison
2. ABERDEEN
Aberdeen           Auldjo and Williamson
Banff     Thomas Ogilvie
Stonehaven       Charles Munro
Oldmeldrum      Thomas Simpson
Huntly   Alexander Stewart
Peterhead          John Dallachy
Fraserburgh       John Wallace
Keith     George Brander
3. TAIN
Tain        John Barclay
Dingwall               Patrick Hay
Cromarty             Walter Ross
Fortrose               Robert Mackid
4. PERTH
Perth     James Chalmers
Alyth     William Chalmers
Blairgowrie         George Brown
Culross Alexander Masterton
Dunkeld               James Inches
Dunblane            James Finlayson
Downe William Young
Longforgan         William Muir
Gartmore            Peter Gordon
Errol       Walter Macfarlane
Kenmore             Mrs McIntyre
Kincardine           Robert Rentoul
Crief      James Glass
Callander             Gilbert McEwan
5. HADDINGTON
Haddington        Hay Donaldson
Dunbar Thomas Diddep
Tranent                David Aiken
Gifford Robert Paterson
North Berwick   Mrs Oliver
Stenton                John Begbie
Linton   Alexander Brown
Prestonpans      David Thomson
6. BRECHIN
Brechin Colin Gillies
7. INVERNESS
Inverness            Thomas Gilzean
Fort William        Duncan M’Intyre jun
8. INVERARAY
Inveraray             Edward Hall
Oban     John Bayne
9. AYR
Ayr         John Hamilton
Irvine    Robert Tod jun
Kilmarnock          John Wilson, surgeon; J and P Wilson, stationers
Saltcoats              Daniel Dow
Maybole              William Niven
Girvan   William Brown & Co
Ballantrae            John M’Whirter
Beith     William Dunn
Stewarton           Andrew Brown
Mauchline           William Millar
Ochiltree             David Kirkland
Cumnock             James Kirkland
10. NAIRN
Nairn     Alexander Hay
Forres   Thomas Eddie
Elgin       George Spark
11. LERWICK, SHETLAND
Lerwick Francis Heddell
12. DUNSE
Dunse   James Home
Lauder  Robert Romanes
Eyemouth           James Edgar
Coldstream         William Air
Greenlaw            Peter Hogg
Earlstoun             William Hogg
13. PEEBLES
Peebles                William Laidlaw
Selkirk   Andrew Henderson
Galashiels            William Craig
14. DORNOCK
Dornock               Hugh Leslie
15. CUPAR FIFE
Cupar Fife           James Lumsdaine
Dunfermline      Miss Russel
Inverkeithing     Henry Arnot
Burntisland         David Knox
Kirkcaldy              John Ford
Fife        Thomas Archibald
Anstruther          William Cockburn
St Andrews         Alexander Fraser
Kinghorn              John Hutton
Falkland               Thomas Kennedy
Leven    Mrs Scott
Kinross John Skelton
16. JEDBURGH
Jedburgh             John Lang
Kelso     Robert Bruce
Melrose               John Mercer
Hawick  John Oliver
17. CAMPBELTOWN
Campbeltown   Duncan M’Callum
18. GLASGOW
Glasgow               William Mure; Alexander Robertson
Lanark   Robert Newbigging
Hamilton              William Hamilton
Paisley  James Orr
Greenock            Robert Barr
Port Glasgow     J and D King
Dumbarton         John M’Aulay
Rothsay, Bute    John Bain
19. FORFAR
Forfar    Peter Ranken
Cupar Angus      George Brown
Kirriemuir            James Shepherd
20. KIRKWALL, ORKNEY
Kirkwall                James Riddoch
21. THURSO
Thurso  Donald Robison
22. DUMFRIES
Dumfries             John Sime
Sanquhar             Robert Whigham
Moffat  Alexander Craig
Lockerby              Mrs Janet Dalton
Ecclefechan        Mrs Janet Kerr
Langholm            John Graham
Annan   John Forrest
Castle Douglas   George Cameron
Kirkcudbrigh       Thomas M’Millan
Gatehouse         Anthony M’Nish
Newton Douglas              James Carson
Stranraer             Robert Bryce; Patrick Taylor
Wigton Alexander Burton
Whithorn             James M’millan
23. LINLITHGOW
Linlithgow           James Taylor
Queensferry      Robert Murray
Borrowstownness           Henry Rymer
Bathgate              Robert Mochrie
24. MONTROSE
Montrose            Charles Thomson
Arbroath              John Colvill
Bervie   David Gavin
Laurencekirk      John Scott
25. STIRLING
Stirling  Thomas Wingate
Alloa      William Mackie
Falkirk   John Burns

At all which places the persons applying for said certificates will be furnished, gratis with the printed forms of the entry required by the act, to be filled up in writing, and delivered in previously to the issuing of said certificate.
And to prevent mistakes, the Public are hereby apprised, That a duty of One Pound One Shilling only is to be paid for each certificate, which sum will be expressed by a Stamp on the same; and that no more is to be demanded of any person, upon taking out a Certificate for using or wearing Hair Powder, upon any pretence whatever, except when there are more than two unmarried Daughters in a Family; in which case a Double Certificate, stamped with TWO STAMPS of One Pound One Shilling each, is required to be taken out by the Father or Mother for such unmarried daughters.

Daily attendance will be given at the above Offices, for one kalendar month, from Monday the 31st of March ult from ten o’clock forenoon till three afternoon, Saturdays excepted.
ALEX MENZIES, Head Distributor and Collector, North Britain

N.B. Every person using or wearing Hair Powder, without taking out a Certificate, forfeits TWENTY POUNDS. All persons in arrear of this tax are immediately required to pay up the same; and informations are received by the Solicitor, and suitable rewards given.
Alphabetical lists are regularly made up, and kept open for the inspection of all persons desiring the same.
EXEMPTIONS FROM THE ABOVE TAX
Clergymen not possessed of an annual income of 100l whether arising from ecclesiastical preferment or otherwise; Subalterns or Non-commissioned Officers, or Private Men, belonging to any regiment in the Army, Artillery, Division of Marines, Corps of Engineers, or Fencible Corps; Officers in his Majesty’s Navy under the rank of Commanders; Officers or Privates in any corps of Yeomanry or Volunteers, either cavalry or infantry.
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History talks 18-24 January

12/1/2016

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Upcoming family history talks and events in Scotland, 18 - 24 January 2016

Note that there may be a small charge for some of these events, and some may be for members only. We will be publishing lists of upcoming talks and events regularly - if you are organising a talk or event relating to Scottish genealogy or history, please let us know and we will be happy to add your events to our list.

Monday, January 18 2016, 7.30 pm

Transports of Delight

Colin Mackay

Venue: Kelvinside Academy, Glasgow

Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society


Monday, January 18 2016, 7.30 pm

Coffee House Cures

Dave Harvie

Venue: Morison Memorial Church, Dumbarton Road, Clydebank

Clydebank Local History Society


Monday, January 18 2016, 7.30 pm

Balerno over the last 200 years

Ronnie Dixon and Val Wilson CDLHS

Venue: Gibson Craig Memorial Hall, Lanark Road West, Currie

Currie & District Local History Society

Ronnie and Val cover Balerno’s history and development from a small rural village to the dormitory suburb of today. From stagecoaches and grave robbers on the Lanark Road to the nose to tail traffic of today. From enclosures of land and depopulation away from agriculture, to the growth of the paper mills and their eventual decline and demise. The history of the "workaday village" that grew.


Monday, January 18 2016, 7-9 pm

Kirk Session and Other Records

Bruce Bishop

Venue: Augustine Church, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh

Scottish Genealogy Society


Monday, January 18 2016, 8 pm

The Portraits of Bonny Prince Charlie

Dr Bendor Grosvenor, Iconographie, Edinburgh

Venue: Dreghorn Loan Hall, Colinton, EH13 0DE

Colinton Local History Society


Tuesday, January 19 2016, 7.30 pm

The Cheapside Hoard

Alan Hodgkinson

Venue: West Kilbride Community Centre, Corse Street, West Kilbride, KA23 9AX

West Kilbride Civic Society

The mystery of the hoard is one which explores the background of how this extraordinary and large collection of Elizabethan jewellery came to be buried in the 17th Century, and found three centuries later when Cheapside was redeveloped. The area has a long history of the jewellery and allied trades, with The Goldsmiths’ Hall at its centre, (the original burned down in the Fire of London). The latter might even answer the mystery.


Tuesday, January 19 2016, 7.30 pm

Mills of the Water of Leith

Venue: Leith Community Education Centre in the New Kirkgate

Leith Local History Society


Tuesday, January 19 2016, 7.30 pm

The Quintinshill Rail Disaster

Robin Nelson

Venue: Kilmarnock College, Holehouse Rd, Kilmarnock

Kilmarnock & District History Group


Tuesday, January 19 2016, 7.30 pm - 9.30 pm

Social Evening

Venue: Masonic Halls, Collier Street, Johnstone

Johnstone Historical Society


Wednesday, January 20 2016, 7.30 pm

Longbow/Warbow

James Stillie

Venue: Selkirk Parish Church Hall

Selkirkshire Antiquarian Society


Wednesday, January 20 2016, 7.30 pm

Glorious Gardens Project

Northlight Archaeology

Venue: Falkirk Old and St Modan's Parish Church

Falkirk Local History Society


Thursday, January 21 2016, 2.30pm

Capt. Hugh Pettigrew of Canadian Pacific Steamship Co.

Alan Crombie

Venue: Moulin Hall, Moulin

North Perthshire Family History Group

£3 for visitors


Thursday, January 21 2016, 7 pm

Victorian Photographers in Cumnock

Bobby Grierson

Venue: Rothesay House, Cumnock

Cumnock History Group


Thursday, January 21 2016, 7.00 pm for 7.30 pm

Towers and Spires of Glasgow

David Martin

Venue: Adelaides, 209 Bath Street, at the corner of Pitt Street, Glasgow

Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland

David Martin, architect and historian, would like to share images from a proposed book. "Towers and Spires of Glasgow".


Thursday, January 21 2016, 7.30 pm

Fishwives and fishing

Olive Richardson

Venue: Haddington Town House

Haddington's History Society


Thursday, January 21 2016, 7.30 pm

Burns Celebration DHS style

Venue: Dornoch Social Club

Dornoch Heritage Society


Thursday, January 21 2016, 7.30 pm

Holidays, Hotels & Hoteliers

June Wiggins

Venue: Paisley Museum, High Street, Paisley

Renfrewshire Family History Society


Thursday, January 21 2016, 7.30 pm

Railways in Fife

Sandy Thomson

Venue: Kirkcaldy Old Kirk, Kirk Wynd

Kirkcaldy Civic Society


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History talks 11-17 January

9/1/2016

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Upcoming family history talks and events in Scotland, 11 - 17 January 2016

Note that there may be a small charge for some of these events, and some may be for members only. We will be publishing lists of upcoming talks and events regularly - if you are organising a talk or event relating to Scottish genealogy or history, please let us know and we will be happy to add your events to our list.

Monday, January 11 2016, 6 pm

The Bronze Age Neolithic: Problems of Continuity and Chronology

Dr Alex Gibson, Reader in Prehistory, University of Bradford

Venue: Auditorium, National Museums Scotland, Chambers Street

Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

For some time it has been commonly acknowledged that Bronze Age ceramics developed from Neolithic forms. Radiocarbon chronology, however, has shown that there was almost a millennium between the demise of Impressed Wares and the advent of Food Vessels and Urns. Given this chronological gap, how do we explain the undeniable similarities? A closer inspection of Bronze Age culture and customs suggests that there was more than just pottery making a re-appearance.


Monday, January 11 2016, 7 pm

Enemy in Sight

Ian Frame, Millport

Venue: Newton Lounge

Cumbrae Historical Society


Monday, January 11 2016, 7 pm for 7.30 pm

The Botanic Cottage Reborn

Sutherland Forsyth

Venue: Drummond Community High School, Bellevue Place, Edinburgh

Broughton History Society


Monday, January 11 2016, 7.30 pm

Glasgow City Heritage Trust

Rebecca Cadie, ARPL Architects

Venue: Loudoun Hall, Boat Vennel, Ayr

Kyle and Carrick Civic Society


Monday, January 11 2016, 7.30 pm

Open Evening

Venue: Luncarty Church Centre

West Stormont Historical Society

Non-members: adults £3, concessions £2. (Open discussion meetings at Luncarty are free)


Monday, January 11 2016, 7.30 pm

Greatrex - Forger and Photographer

David Bruce

Venue: Dalkeith Baptist Church, North Wynd, Dalkeith

Dalkeith History Society


Monday, January 11 2016, 7.30 pm

The Past, Present and Future of Saughton Park

Peter McDougall

Venue: Gibson Craig Memorial Hall, Lanark Road West, Currie

Currie & District Local History Society

What do we know about Saughton Park? Somewhere to kick a ball about (badly in my case!), somewhere to walk through the rose garden, but what of the history? Project Development Officer Peter McDougall fills us in on the past present and future of the park.


Monday, January 11 2016, 7.30 pm

The Art of Forgery

Prof Roy Burdon

Venue: St Andrews Church, Park Road, Milngavie

Milngavie and Bearsden Historical Society

Professor Roy Burdon gives an insight into whether it is Fake or Fortune. The historical problems which confront potential art buyers and art forgers will be explored along with forgers’ preferences and reasons for pursuing the trade.


Monday, January 11 2016, 7.30 pm

Edinburgh, The Modern Athens

Robert Jardine

Venue: Partick Burgh Hall, room 1, 3-9a Burgh Hall Street, Glasgow, G11 5LN

Scottish Pottery Society


Monday, January 11 2016, 7.30 pm

Hidden History of Nursery Rhymes from Tudor Times to the Civil War

Catherine Mills

Venue: John Knox Church Hall, High Street, Stewarton

Stewarton and District Historical Society

Hear about the sinister and dark origins of our traditional nursery rhymes


Monday, January 11 2016, 7.30 pm - 9.30 pm

Kinneil Park - another designed landscape by Alexander Edwards

Geoff Bailey

Venue: Alloa Town Hall (Tommy Downs Room)

Clackmannanshire Field Studies Society

Speaker is Keeper of Archaeology & Local History Falkirk Museum


Monday, January 11 2016, 8 pm

Members' Evening

Venue: Dreghorn Loan Hall, Colinton, EH13 0DE

Colinton Local History Society


Tuesday, January 12 2016, 6.45 pm for 7.15 pm

The Edinburgh of John Kay, caricaturist, c1785-1817

Eric Melvin

Venue: Morningside Parish Church Hall

Morningside Heritage Association


Tuesday, January 12 2016, 7.30 pm

Open Night

Venue: Public Library, Airds Crossing, Fort William

Lochaber and North Argyll Family History Group

for Everyone’s Mementos etc specific to their Family Research


Tuesday, January 12 2016, 7.30 pm

The Clyde from Fairlie to Hunterston

John Riddell

Venue: Largs Library Community Room

Largs and North Ayrshire Family History Society


Tuesday, January 12 2016, 7.30 pm

Hitler, Stalin and the Cartoonists

Les Barker, former history teacher

Venue: Dining Hall, Dollar Academy

Dollar History Society


Tuesday, January 12 2016, 7.30 pm

The 1884 Reform Agitation in Peeblesshire & the Borders

Dr Mark Nixon

Venue: Auditorium, Eastgate Theatre and Arts Centre, Peebles

Tweeddale Society

Dr. Nixon is an independent researcher and curator working with Universities and Museums throughout Scotland. This talk focuses on the unrest created by the movement to extend the vote to workers in small towns and rural areas of Scotland. During the summer and autumn of 1884 a massive series of demonstrations took place across Britain in favour of the extension of the vote in rural districts. Scotland in particular rallied to the cause, and the men and women of the Border Counties played their part, marching and demonstrating in towns and villages across the district, including Peebles. Drawing on newspaper reports and surviving objects such as banners and medallions, this talk will consider how and why local people got involved, what they said and believed, and what they sought to achieve through their demonstrations.


Tuesday, January 12 2016, 7.30 pm - 8.30 pm

The Bronze Age Neolithic: Problems of Continuity and Chronology

Dr Alex Gibson, Reader in Prehistory, University of Bradford

Venue: Regent Building Lecture Theatre, Regent Walk, Aberdeen, AB24 3FX

Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

For some time it has been commonly acknowledged that Bronze Age ceramics developed from Neolithic forms. Radiocarbon chronology, however, has shown that there was almost a millennium between the demise of Impressed Wares and the advent of Food Vessels and Urns. Given this chronological gap, how do we explain the undeniable similarities? A closer inspection of Bronze Age culture and customs suggests that there was more than just pottery making a re-appearance.


Wednesday, January 13 2016

Agriculture in East Lothian

Bob Simpson, Farmer at Castlemains, Dirleton

Venue: Coastal Communities Museum, School Road, North Berwick, East Lothian EH39 4JU

Coastal Communities Museum


Wednesday, January 13 2016, 2.00 pm - 4.00 pm

Grangemouth Docks

Jim Summers

Venue: Kincardine Community Centre - Hepburn Room

Kincardine-on-Forth Local History Group


Wednesday, January 13 2016, 7.00 pm

The Canongate project

Lynn Kilpatrick and Miriam McDonald

Venue: Augustine Church, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh

The Old Edinburgh Club


Wednesday, January 13 2016, 7.30 pm

Dumbarton Castle : The French Connection

Elspeth Crocket

Venue: Concord Community Centre (next to the Denny Theatre), Dumbarton, G82 1LJ

Lennox Heritage Society

A talk by Elspeth Crocket. Dumbarton Castle is not just of local importance. It is widely known that Mary Queen of Scots sailed to France from here. The castle, however, has many lesser known links to France dating from the centuries when Dumbarton was closely involved in the Auld Alliance.


Wednesday, January 13 2016, 7.30 pm

"A Talk of Two Halves" Glasgow's Sporting Archives with reference to other records they hold

Michael Gallagher

Venue: Smith Museum and Art Gallery, Dumbarton Road, Stirling

Central Scotland Family History Society

Speaker is Archivist at the Mitchell Library, Glasgow


Wednesday, January 13 2016, 7.30 pm - 9.00 pm

Birds and Burns

Chris Rollie

Venue: Parish Church Hall, St Mary Street, Kirkcudbright, DG6 4DN

Kirkcudbright History Society


Thursday, January 14 2016, 7.30 pm

Discovering the Northern Picts

Dr Gordon Noble

Venue: MacRobert Hall, The Square, Tarland

Cromar History Group

Dr. Gordon Noble a leading authority on the Picts and known to many of you from the Rhynie dig, will be covering the excavations and survey of Pictish sites across Northeast Scotland, including the recently discovered Pictish Fort on the stacks off our local coastline.


Thursday, January 14 2016, 7.30 pm

The Green House, Eskhill

Robin Burley

Venue: St Peter's Church Hall, High Street, Musselburgh

Musselburgh Conservation Society


Thursday, January 14 2016, 7.30 pm

The Work of the North Queensferry Trust

James Lawson

Venue: Queens Hall, Charlestown, KY11 3EG

Gellet Society

With the recent awarding of UNESCO World Heritage site status to the Forth Bridge, North Queensferry’s future as a very busy tourist destination is guaranteed.


Thursday, January 14 2016, 7.30 pm

Bannockburn

Dr Tony Pollard, University of Glasgow

Venue: Town Hall, Ayr

Ayrshire Archaeological and Natural History Society


Thursday, January 14 2016, 7.30 pm - 9.00 pm

Members Open Evening

Venue: Johnnie Walker Bond, Strand Street Kilmarnock

East Ayrshire Family History Society


Friday, January 15 2016, 7.30 pm

The 1715 Rising and the Burning of Strathearn

Dr James Grant

Venue: Aytoun Hall, High Street, Auchterarder

Auchterarder and District Local History Association


Saturday, January 16 2016, 12.00 pm

Commemoration of the Battle of Falkirk

Venue: Callendar House, Falkirk, FK1 1YR

The 1745 Association

Falkirk, the forgotten battle.....the penultimate battle fought on British soil.... the final Jacobite triumph, yet a pyrrhic victory which left Prince Charlie's forces severely depleted.....

"Tonight we shall lie either in Falkirk or in Paradise" – reported words of Lord George Murray, General of the Jacobite Army, January 17th 1746

270 years after the battle was fought, The 1745 Association is organising a free event to remember what happened on that day.This is an open invitation to members of the Scottish Local History Forum to a free event entitled "Falkirk or Paradise? Commemorating the 270th anniversary of the Battle of Falkirk" being held at Callendar House, Falkirk, Saturday, January 16th 2016.

Details and itinerary are as follows:

Midday: Those who wish to enjoy The Prince's Dinner (details attached) before the Main Event will gather in the Green Room, Callendar House, where, on September 14th 1745, Prince Charles Edward Stuart dined with the Earl of Kilmarnock. 1.30 PM: Green Room: Welcome and Introduction to Callendar House and the Earl of Kilmarnock during the ‘45 (Michael Nevin). 2:00 PM: The group will depart for a guided tour of the Battle of Falkirk by Geoff Bailey, author of "Falkirk or Paradise" (1996), the authoritative account of the events leading up to the battle and the course of the battle itself. If there are sufficient numbers, we will hire a minibus to take us to Bantaskine Park. In the event of inclement weather, we may stay on the tarmac within the Park rather than run the risk of getting bogged down in muddy fields (we don't want to repeat the experience of the Hanoverian cavalry!) 3:45 PM: Return by way of Falkirk Parish Church, to pay our respects to the graves of Colonel Sir Robert Munro and Captain William Edmondstone, Hanoverian officers who fell at Falkirk and were buried there with full military honour by the Jacobite commanders, and the Jacobite divisional leader Glengarry, who was killed in a tragic accident in the immediate aftermath of the battle, and who now lies beside Sir John Graeme who fell at the earlier Battle of Falkirk in 1298 fighting in the cause of William Wallace. 4:30 PM: Return to Callendar House for a warming cup of tea, coffee or mulled wine, with bannock / scones, following the sound example of the Highlanders who carried bannock with them into battle 270 years ago, to ensure that they would have some nourishment afterwards – always provided that they survived the ordeal! 5:00 PM: Close.

Note that the Main Event from 1:30 PM to 5:00 PM is free, but places are limited by capacity and will be allocated on a "first-come, first-served" basis. There is free car parking at Callendar House.

Bookings should be made through Michael Nevin, either by e-mail on: mike@nevinassociates.co.uk or by phone on 0782 4829 445 stating whether the booking is for The Main Event from 1:30 PM onwards, or whether you also like to book for the Prince’s Dinner at midday.


Saturday, January 16 2016, 2.30pm-4.30pm

Beginners' meeting

Teresa Shewell

Venue: Unitarian Church Centre

Aberdeen and North East Scotland Family History Society


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