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 16 2017, 7.30 pm
Archaeology of the Islands of Loch Lomond
Fiona Baker
Venue: Morison Memorial Church, Dumbarton Road, Clydebank
Clydebank Local History Society
Monday, January 16 2017, 7.30 pm
Glasgow’s Grand Central Hotel
Bill Hicks and Jill Scott
Venue: Kelvinside Academy, Glasgow
Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society
Monday, January 16 2017, 8 pm
Revisiting the Georgian House, Edinburgh
Sheonagh Martin
Venue: Dreghorn Loan Hall, Colinton, EH13 0DE
Colinton Local History Society
We welcome back Sheonagh Martin, Manager of the National Trust for Scotland property, The Georgian House, Edinburgh. She spoke to us some eight years ago, and since then there have been changes at the house, with more in the pipeline.
Tuesday, January 17 2017, 7.30 pm
Old Trades and Professions
Richard Torrance
Venue: Leith Community Education Centre in the New Kirkgate
Tuesday, January 17 2017, 7.30 pm
Robert Burns - The Fat of The Land
Stuart Cochrane
Venue: Kilmarnock College, Hill Street, Kilmarnock
Kilmarnock & District History Group
£2 donation for non-members
Tuesday, January 17 2017, 7.30 pm
The Crook Inn - its past, present & future
James Welch
Venue: Auditorium, Eastgate Theatre and Arts Centre, Peebles
The Crook Inn probably started as a refuge for drovers and a meeting place for local shepherds in a relatively sparsely populated and lawless Tweedsmuir in the 16th century. It was one of the three oldest hostelries in Scotland - granted a drinks licence by King James VI in 1604, a year after he became James I of England. It served briefly as a church in Covenanting times, and it was where Robert Burns wrote his famous poem, ‘Willie Wastle Wife’. A well-used staging post between Edinburgh and Dumfries, it became a fashionable venue for the Edinburgh literati in Victorian times.
James will run through the Crook’s fascinating history before going on to tell us about its decay during the 20th century, its acquisition by the local community and its planned resurrection.
James Welch is Vice-Chairman of the Tweedsmuir Community Company. He has practised as a Chartered Landscape Architect, Environmental Planner and Expert Witness for 25 years, and is the Founder and Director of Optimised Environments Ltd (OPEN) based in Edinburgh & London.
Tuesday, January 17 2017, 7.30 pm - 9.30 pm
Social Evening
Venue: Masonic Halls, Collier Street, Johnstone
Wednesday, January 18 2017, 5.30 pm
Professor John MacKenzie, Emeritus Professor of Imperial History, Lancaster University
Venue: Ross House, Dornoch
University of the Highlands and Islands Centre for History
Professor MacKenzie, a Visiting Professor at the Centre for History, is one of the foremost historians of imperialism, of any period, and a scholar who also has an outstanding reputation in the field of environmental history. We are delighted to be hosting this lecture by him, which will focus on religion and Scottish identity in a global context, mainly referring to Presbyterianism.
Wednesday, January 18 2017, 7.30 pm
The Glasgow Bridges
Tom Marchant
Venue: Best Western Eglinton Arms Hotel, Eaglesham
Non-members welcome, £3 on the door
Wednesday, January 18 2017, 7.30 pm
Stunning Selkirkshire: A look at the wildlife of the County over a year
Douglas Methven
Venue: Selkirk Parish Church Hall
Selkirkshire Antiquarian Society
Annual Membership £6 per year. Non member £2 per event. For enquiries about the meetings or the Antiquarian Society please contact Jamie McIntyre jmcintyre@borderscollege.ac.uk
Wednesday, January 18 2017, 7.30 pm
Photographing Falkirk's Historic Industries
Tom Astbury
Venue: Falkirk Trinity Church
Thursday, January 19 2017
Ayrshire Place Names
Ian McVey
Venue: Portland Church hall
Troon & Ayrshire Family History Society
Thursday, January 19 2017, 2.30 pm
Noblewomen of Atholl, Work, Welfare and War
Dr Nicola Cowmeadow
Venue: Moulin Hall, Moulin
North Perthshire Family History Group
Visitors £3.00
Thursday, January 19 2017, 6.30 pm
Cumnock men & women who served in WW1.
Venue: Baird Institute, 3 Lugar Street, Cumnock, East Ayrshire, KA18 1AD
Thursday, January 19 2017, 7.30 pm
Working for a living: terms and conditions from Palmerston to Lloyd George
Andrew Ramage
Venue: Haddington Town House
Thursday, January 19 2017, 7.30 pm
The History of Sanitation
Hugh Walker
Venue: Abbey Church Hall, Abbey Park Place, Dunfermline
Dunfermline Historical Society
Visitors are charged a fee of £2.00 per meeting and are made very welcome.
Thursday, January 19 2017, 7.30 pm
The History of Bagpipe Music
Dr Jack Taylor
Venue: MacRobert Hall, The Square, Tarland
Dr Jack Talyor will give a talk, with musical interludes, on the history of bagpipe music and his recent project to transcribe some very old pipe tunes to written music before they were lost.
Thursday, January 19 2017, 7.30 pm
Fashioning a better Future, Paisley’s Changing High Street 1824 – 1869
David Roberts
Venue: Paisley Museum, High Street, Paisley
Renfrewshire Family History Society
Thursday, January 19 2017, 7.30 pm
Railways Around the Kirkcaldy Area
Sandy Thomson
Venue: Kirkcaldy Old Kirk, Kirk Wynd
Saturday, January 21 2017, 2.00pm-4.00pm
Oral testimony of emigrants
Marjory Harper
Venue: Dumbarton Room, Royal Scots Club, 29 Abercromby Place, Edinburgh, EH3 6QE
Aberdeen and North East Scotland Family History Society
Saturday, January 21 2017, 2.30pm-4.30pm
Beginners' meeting
Venue: Unitarian Church Centre
Aberdeen and North East Scotland Family History Society
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