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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Thursday, January 21 2016, 7.30 pm
Burns Celebration DHS style
Venue: Dornoch Social Club
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