History talks and events 10-16 September 2018

4/9/2018

Upcoming family history talks and events in Scotland, 10 - 16 September 2018

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, September 10 2018, 7 pm for 7.30 pm

Wojak, the Bear who Went to War

Aileen Orr

Venue: Drummond Community High School, Bellevue Place, Edinburgh

Broughton History Society

Tuesday, September 11 2018, 7.30pm

Talks and Walks around Aberdeenshire

Fiona Jane Brown

Venue: Buchan Hotel, Ellon

Ellon and District Heritage Society

Tuesday, September 11 2018, 7.30pm

Banishment and Transportation along with an exhibition/photos of some of the stories from the Kalendar of Convicts by Andrew Campbell

Ken Nisbet

Venue: Volunteer Hall, Galashiels

Fife Family History Society

Wednesday, September 12 2018, 7 pm for 7.30 pm

Perthshire - a wellspring of Early Photography

Dr Paul Philippou

Venue: Innerpeffray Library, Innerpeffray, by Crieff, Perthshire

Friends of Innerpeffray Library

In 1839, the world woke up to the amazing new invention of photography. This revolutionary medium created a gold rush of eager practitioners. Victorian Perthshire, in common with most areas of Britain, produced its own adepts of what was called the ‘Black Art’. Dr Paul S. Philippou, co-author of The Early Photographers of Perthshire will offer a glimpse of the contribution made by these photographers and make the case that Perthshire, though not the birthplace of Scottish photography, produced several pre-eminent early photographers amongst whom are included: David Octavius Hill, ‘one of the finest calotypists in photographic history’; Jessie Mann and Lady Kinnaird, ‘rivals for the accolade of Scotland’s first female photographer’; ‘outstanding local photographer’ Magnus Jackson; and Hugh Lyon Playfair who helped to make St Andrews the ‘Headquarters of the Calotype’.
Lady Eastlake, a well-known Victorian art critic and art historian, wrote in The Quarterly Review in 1856 “Photography made but slow way in England; and the first knowledge even of her existence came back to this country from across the Border. It was in Edinburgh, where the first earnest, professional practice of this art began, and the calotypes of Messrs. Hill and Adamson remain to this day the most picturesque specimens of the new discovery."

Wednesday, September 12 2018, 7.45 pm

What Mary Did Next (Mary Queen of Scots)

Elspeth Crockett

Venue: RAF Club, Ardgowan Square, Greenock

Inverclyde Historical Society

Friday, September 14 2018, 7.30pm

The Eriskay Diary of Fr Allan Macdonald

Alasdair Roberts

Venue: Eden Court, Bishops Rd, Inverness IV3 5SA

Gaelic Society of Inverness

Saturday, September 15 2018, 2.30 pm - 4.30 pm

Canon Alexander Galloway – The Renaissance Mannie Fae Inverurie