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Upcoming family history talks and events in Scotland, 6 - 12 November 2017
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. Tuesday, November 14 2017, 1 pm The Establishment of the Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain and its Influence on the Ukrainian Diaspora in Scotland Peter Kormylo, University of Glasgow Venue: G16, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh University of Edinburgh Diaspora Studies graduate workshop. For more information see http://edin.ac/1MSzwtw Tuesday, November 14 2017, 10:15 - 11:45 U3A Family History Group Open Session Venue: Turriff Library, Grange Villa, The Square, Turriff, AB43 5AE Tuesday, November 14 2017, 5.30 pm - 7.30 pm Modern Scotland Callum Brown, Richard Finlay, W. Hamish Fraser Venue: Kelvin Hall, Glasgow This free public programme of talks, interviews and panel discussions (organised by Dr Catriona Macdonald, Scottish History and Dr Stephen Mullen, History, University of Glasgow) hosted in the Kelvin Hall in academic term 2017-18 (in partnership with The Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies, The Hunterian, UofG Library, Archives and Special Collections) explores the remarkable transformation of Scottish history over the course of the last fifty years; the current challenges faced by the discipline; and leading practitioners’ hopes for the future. The range of speakers in the programme lends this initiative authority and remarkable range: there’s something here for all lovers of Scottish history, and an opportunity to get to know a little better the writers behind the books that have shaped how we understand our past. Indeed, all events will be recorded and hosted online by the University library, establishing a fantastic resource for scholars in the future. Tuesday, November 14 2017, 7.30 pm The Northern Picts Project Dr Gordon Noble Venue: Buchan Hotel, Ellon Ellon and District Heritage Society Entrance £3 Tuesday, November 14 2017, 7.30 pm Court of the Lord Lyon Lord Lyon - Joseph Morrow Venue: Volunteer House (Vonef Centre) in 69 Crossgate Cupar KY15 5AS Tea/coffee and biscuits included. Members entry free - Non members very welcome entry £2 for refreshments. Phone Dave Reid on 01333 350557 for any queries re talks. Tuesday, November 14 2017, 7.30 pm - 9.30 pm Women in Glasgow in WW1 Fiona Hayes (Glasgow Museums) Venue: Masonic Halls, Collier Street, Johnstone Wednesday, November 15 2017, 10 am - 11 am Standing Stones of Stenness Walk
Venue: Stones of Stenness Circle and Henge Join the Orkney Ranger Service for a free guided tour of our oldest stone circle, and explore the fascinating links with the nearby Neolithic village of Barnhouse. Wednesday, November 15 2017, 7 pm Marks, Meanings & Messages: an Archaeology of Hidden Voices Alex Hale, RCAHMS Venue: Augustine Church, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh Free to members, £5 for guests. Disabled access and hearing loop Wednesday, November 15 2017, 7.30 pm The Remarkable Life of Mary Lee Milne: Her adventures with the Scottish Women’s Hospital during the Great War Shona Sinclair Venue: Selkirk Parish Church Hall Joint meeting with Selkirk Antiquarian Society Wednesday, November 15 2017, 7.30 pm The Lost Mansions of the Clyde and Renfrewshire Dan Sweeney Venue: Best Western Eglinton Arms Hotel, Eaglesham Members free, non-members £3 at the door Wednesday, November 15 2017, 7.30 pm Scotland and the Spanish Civil War Fraser Raeburn Venue: Chalmers Hall, Linlithgow Bridge West Lothian History and Amenity Society Thursday, November 16 2017, 5.15 pm for 5.30 pm ‘Remembering Revolution: The Covenants after 1660’ Dr Neil McIntyre (University of Glasgow) Venue: Room 1.434 (Teaching Room 7), Doorway 3, Old Medical School University of Edinburgh Scottish history research seminar. See here for more details. Thursday, November 16 2017, 7.30 pm
TBA Venue: Portland Church hall, South Beach, Troon Troon & Ayrshire Family History Society Thursday, November 16 2017, 7.30 pm Dunfermline/Trondheim Connection Gifford Lind 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, November 16 2017, 7.30 pm The Wilkhouse Excavations of May 2019 Warren Baillie and Donald Adamson - Archaeologists, GUARD Archaeology Ltd Venue: Brora Community Centre Thursday, November 16 2017, 7:30 pm The Covenanters in Renfrewshire Dane Love Venue: Paisley Museum, High Street, Paisley Renfrewshire Family History Society Friday, November 17 2017, 7.30 pm John Carswell’s Adventure: 450 years of Gaelic in print Mark Wringe Venue: Hilton Church, Inverness Friday, November 17 2017, 7.30 pm - 9.30 pm The Flyting
Venue: Scottish Storytelling Centre, Netherbow Theatre, Royal Mile, Edinburgh Previously Scotland's History Festival A welcome return for this lively showcase for the Scots language. William Dunbar and Walter Kennedy, the two great makars at the court of James IV, squared up to each other for a verbal battering, around 1508. The verse is sublime, the insults are grotesque and the swearing is genuine. This couldn't be more Scottish if it tried. You, the audience, get to judge the winner of this poetic pyrotechnic who goes home victorious? Dunbar? Kennedy? Ultimately, it's the Scots language itself! Friday, November 17 2017, 7.30 pm - 9.30 pm John Carswell's Adventure: 450 years of Gaelic in Print Mark Wringe Venue: Hilton Church, Inverness Saturday, November 18 2017, 12.30 pm - 1.30 pm In the footsteps of CK Scott Moncrieff Jean Findlay Venue: City of Edinburgh Methodist Church, 25 Nicolson Square, Edinburgh EH8 9BX Previously Scotland's History Festival From the outside an enigma, Scott Moncrieff left a trail of writings that describe a man expert at living a paradoxical life: fervent Catholic convert and homosexual, gregarious party-goer and deeply lonely, interwar spy in Mussolini’s Italy and public man of letters – a man for whom honour was the most abiding principle. He was a decorated war hero, and his letters home are an unusually light take on day-to-day life on the front. Described as ‘offensively brave’, he was severely injured in 1917 and, convalescing in London, became a lynchpin of literary society – friends with Robert Graves and Noel Coward, enemies with Siegfried Sassoon and in love with Wilfred Owen. Saturday, November 18 2017, 2 pm - 3 pm Greedy Queen Annie Gray Venue: City of Edinburgh Methodist Church, 25 Nicolson Square, Edinburgh EH8 9BX Previously Scotland's History Festival Voracious and adventurous in her tastes, Queen Victoria was head of state during a revolution in how we ate - from the highest tables to the most humble. Bursting with original research, The Greedy Queen considers Britain's most iconic monarch from a new perspective, telling the story of British food along the way. Saturday, November 18 2017, 2 pm - 4 pm Canadian Records Neil Menzies Venue: Renfield Saint Stephen's Church Centre Aberdeen and North East Scotland Family History Society Saturday, November 18 2017, 2.30 pm - 4 pm In The Footsteps of the Enlightenment
Venue: City of Edinburgh Methodist Church, 25 Nicolson Square, Edinburgh EH8 9BX Previously Scotland's History Festival Join writer and walking enthusiast Stephen Millar, author of Edinburgh’s Hidden Walks, on a wee wonder around Edinburgh’s Old Town and discover the sites of the Scottish Enlightenment. Saturday, November 18 2017, 2.30pm-4.30pm Dominican Blackfriars Alison Cameron Venue: Unitarian Church Centre, 43A Skene Terrace, Aberdeen, AB10 1RN Aberdeen and North East Scotland Family History Society Saturday, November 18 2017, 3.30 pm - 4.30 p The Prince Who Would Be King: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart Sarah Fraser Venue: City of Edinburgh Methodist Church, 25 Nicolson Square, Edinburgh EH8 9BX Previously Scotland's History Festival Henry Stuart, Prince of Wales was once the hope of Britain. Eldest son to James VI of Scotland, James I of England, Henry was the epitome of heroic Renaissance princely virtue, his life set against a period about as rich and momentous as any. A lively, intelligent prince destined for greatness, but dead at only 18. Saturday, November 18 2017, 5 pm - 6 pm Culloden Trevor Royle Venue: City of Edinburgh Methodist Church, 25 Nicolson Square, Edinburgh EH8 9BX Previously Scotland's History Festival Culloden. The last major battle fought on British soil: a vicious confrontation between Scottish forces supporting the Stuart claim to the throne and forces loyal to the Hanoverian cause. But this wasn't just a conflict between the Scots and the English, the battle was also part of a much larger campaign to protect the British Isles from the growing threat of a French invasion. Saturday, November 18 2017, 7 pm - 8 pm War. What is it good for? Aaron Edwards Venue: City of Edinburgh Methodist Church, 25 Nicolson Square, Edinburgh EH8 9BX Previously Scotland's History Festival War has been a perennial feature of human history since ancient times, yet it remains a poorly understood phenomenon. It has done much to shape our world, from overthrowing leaders, establishing international governance, and inspiring social change, to destroying cities, dividing nations and breeding animosity. Saturday, November 18 2017, 7.30 pm - 9.30 pm Runaway Slaves In Britain Simon Newman and Mara Menzies Venue: Scottish Storytelling Centre, Netherbow Theatre, Royal Mile, Edinburgh Previously Scotland's History Festival Relatively little is known about the enslaved people who lived and died in 18th century Britain. Runaway slaves inadvertently generated records of themselves, when slave-owners placed advertisements in newspapers, describing people who are otherwise all but completely absent from historical records. Saturday, November 18 2017, 8.30 pm - 9.30 pm Scotland : A Century of Nationalism Tommy Sheppard Venue: The Canon's Gait, 232 Canongate, Edinburgh, EH8 8DQ Previously Scotland's History Festival For many, the very real possibility of a sovereign Scotland brought the Independence movement with its hopes, dreams and aspirations into sharp focus for the first time. But what about the history of this ambition? The story of Scottish nationalism is far deeper than the galvanising two year independence campaign of 2012 -2014. Join Tommy Sheppard MP as he explores this rich and sometimes controversial history with Professor Richard Finlay (University of Strathclyde). Sunday, November 19 2017, 1.30 pm - 3 pm GUIDED TOUR OF DEAN CEMETERY
Venue: Dean Cemetery, 63 Dean Path, Edinburgh EH4 3AT, UK Previously Scotland's History Festival Opened in 1846, this is one of the Capital’s early Victorian designed garden cemeteries. It quickly became one of the premier burial grounds of the City, so that many eminent persons chose Dean for their final resting-places. It’s still immaculately maintained by the Dean Cemetery Trust, thus the many fine monuments may be viewed clearly as intended. The tour will introduce you to many of the personalities interred within, including Dr Elsie Inglis and some of the family and friends of Robert Louis Stevenson. Sunday, November 19 2017, 1.45 pm - 2.45 pm Pirates! Dr Eric Graham Venue: City of Edinburgh Methodist Church, 25 Nicolson Square, Edinburgh EH8 9BX, UK Previously Scotland's History Festival Do you have what it takes to join the crew of a Black Flag pirate? How would you fare on the decks of a cruising 30 gunner looking for prey off the Gold Coast? Can you handle the cut and thrust of the boarding party? Would you have been a Blade of Fortune or a Forced Man? And did they all say 'arrr Jim, lad' (hint: they didn't.) Sunday, November 19 2017, 12.30 pm - 1.30 pm A Very Short Introduction To : Hieroglyphs Penelope Wilson Venue: City of Edinburgh Methodist Church, 25 Nicolson Square, Edinburgh EH8 9BX Previously Scotland's History Festival Hieroglyphs were far more than a language. They were an omnipresent and all-powerful force in communicating the messages of ancient Egyptian culture for over three thousand years; used as monumental art, as a means of identifying Egyptianness, and for rarefied communication with the gods. Penelope Wilson explores the cultural significance of the script with an emphasis on previously neglected areas such as cryptography, the continuing decipherment into modern times, and examines the powerful fascination hieroglyphs still hold for us today. Sunday, November 19 2017, 3 pm - 4 pm Castle Hunter David Weinczok Venue: City of Edinburgh Methodist Church, 25 Nicolson Square, Edinburgh EH8 9BX, UK Previously Scotland's History Festival David Weinczok hunts castles, and for that Scotland is undoubtedly the place to be. You won't find him at many gold-laden palaces; he's more the ‘windswept ruin atop a seaside crag’ sort of guy. Some of his favourites, however, exist in the realm of fiction and to that end he is now looking at the castles of the big, silver, and video game screens and asking, 'but could it actually keep the bad guys out?' Sunday, November 19 2017, 3 pm - 4 pm Pixelated Pagans: Four Decades of Vikings in Video Game History Christian Cooijmans Venue: City of Edinburgh Methodist Church, 25 Nicolson Square, Edinburgh EH8 9BX, UK Previously Scotland's History Festival Christian Cooijmans of the School of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Edinburgh looks at the Vikings. Sunday, November 19 2017, 4 pm - 5 pm A Very Short Introduction To The Napoleonic Wars Mike Rapport Venue: City of Edinburgh Methodist Church, 25 Nicolson Square, Edinburgh EH8 9BX, UK Previously Scotland's History Festival The Napoleonic Wars have an important place in the history of Europe, leaving their mark on European and world societies in a variety of ways. In many European countries they provided the stimulus for radical social and political change - particularly in Spain, Germany, and Italy - and are frequently viewed in these places as the starting point of their modern histories. Sunday, November 19 2017, 5 pm - 6 pm Ghosts, Skeletons and Koopa Troopas: A Brief History of Baddies in Computer Games Dr Chris Jefferson Venue: City of Edinburgh Methodist Church, 25 Nicolson Square, Edinburgh EH8 9BX, UK Previously Scotland's History Festival Anyone will tell you that since the beginning of entertainment history, the baddies have always had the best lines, the smartest gear and the coolest weapons. The computer games industry is no different. Learn the history of the pixelated villains with Dr Chris Jefferson of St Andrews University, and possibly even some tricks to defeat them! Sunday, November 19 2017, 7 pm - 9 pm HAPpening: History in Art Projects Launch
Venue: The Canon's Gait, 232 Canongate, Edinburgh, EH8 8DQ Previously Scotland's History Festival Previously… is launching History in Art Projects, a new scheme to encourage the exploration of history through the arts! Our aim is to support artists of all sorts by bringing them into contact with historians looking for new ways to share their research with the world. Through seed funding and matchmaking, we want to help new projects to come to life.
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