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, April 24 2017, 7 pm for 7.30 pm
Mapping Broughton and its Environs
Chris Fleet
Venue: Drummond Community High School, Bellevue Place, Edinburgh
Non-members, £2.00.
Monday, April 24 2017, 7.30 pm
Redundant Churches; the Scottish Redundant Churches Trust
Simon Green, Historic Environment Scotland
Venue: Chapelhill Hall
West Stormont Historical Society
Monday, April 24 2017, 7.30 pm
Enlightenment and the Scots Novel
Dr Fred Freeman
Venue: Millennium Room, Cramond Kirk Hall
Monday, April 24 2017, 7.30 pm
AGM and Members' Night
Venue: St Andrews Church, Park Road, Milngavie
Milngavie and Bearsden Historical Society
Short talks to be arranged. £4 for non-members
Wednesday, April 26 2017, 7.30 pm
A Macmillan's a Macmillan by any other name
Graeme Mackenzie
Venue: Highland Archive Centre, Bught Park, Inverness
Highland Family History Society
Wednesday, April 26 2017, 7.30 pm
AGM
Venue: Old Gala House, Galashiels
Thursday, April 27 2017, 2 pm - 4 pm
Find Your Ain Folk Drop in Service
Venue: Community Room, Largs Library, Allanpark Street, Largs
North Ayrshire Family History Society
Thursday, April 27 2017, 7.30 pm
Making Tracks - Building Bridges
Venue: Talla nan Ross, King Street, Kingussie
An evening of illustrated heritage with live music and song. Come along and help celebrate the 140th birthday of the school and hear about the people who made tracks in education in Kingussie in 1876. Also help celebrate the 150th birthday of the Burgh of Kingussie and hear about the men who led the way in developing Kingussie into a town and police burgh in 1867.
Thursday, April 27 2017, 7.30 pm
Battle of Stirling 1648 : Have you heard of it?
Craig Mair
Venue: Smith Museum and Art Gallery
Stirling Local History Society
Preceded by AGM
Thursday, April 27 2017, 7.30 pm - 9.30 pm
Modern Pilgrims' Way
Sylvia Jenks
Venue: Glen Halls, Neilston
Barrhead & Neilston Historical Association
Thursday, April 27 2017, 7.45 pm
Members' night and AGM
Venue: Drymen Village Hall, Main Street, Drymen, Glasgow, G63 0BP
Drymen & District Local History Society
Short talks by members of the Society with wine and cheese followed by our short AGM
Saturday, April 29 2017
Society Excursion to Durham
The Heraldry Society of Scotland
Saturday, April 29 2017, 10.15 - 11.15 am
'He is a Scotchman which is a sort of passport to fortune': the remarkable story of the Dunachton Robertsons in Tasmania
Dr David Taylor
Venue: Talla nan Ross, King Street, Kingussie
In the 1820s four Robertson brothers from a small farm on Dunachton emigrated to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) as free settlers. Their pathway out of Badenoch proved to be the classic Scottish emigrant pathway to success. This tak uses the achievements of the Robertsons as a means of understanding how it was possible for relatively poor Highlanders to achieve a level of success down under that was simply not possible in their homeland.
Saturday, April 29 2017, 11.35 am - 12.35
Military mapping of Badenoch and environs, and its broadder contexts
Chris Fleet, NLS Map Library
Venue: Talla nan Ross, King Street, Kingussie
This fully illustrated talk will look at the Board of Ordnance and Wade mapping of Badenoch in the 18th century, looking at who created the maps, why, how we can interpret them, and their value today.
Saturday, April 29 2017, 12.35 - 1.15 pm
The Wild Braes of Badenoch: Anne Grant's Letters from the Mountains 1773-1807
Dr Lesley Mickel
Venue: Talla nan Ross, King Street, Kingussie
This talk will examine the chatty and informative letters written by Anne Grant of Laggan, showing how her reading of Romantic literature informed her experience and understanding of living in the Highlands.
Saturday, April 29 2017, 2 pm - 2.45 pm
The Other North
Dr Ian Blyth
Venue: Talla nan Ross, King Street, Kingussie
Ian will discuss his work on the 'edgelands' of the A9 corridor, and what we can learn through exploring these often neglected or marginal areas. He will discuss how our experiences of such spaces, and especially the role and presence of history and heritage, from an important part of our sense of place.
Saturday, April 29 2017, 2.45 - 3.30 pm
Heritage during the planning process of the A9
Aisling Mulcahey
Venue: Talla nan Ross, King Street, Kingussie
This talk will discuss how archaeological remains, and heritage in general, are identified and the best methods or either preservation or excavation and recording are decided. The different methods of recording the archaeology both before and during the road construction will be presented. The importance of publication and information to the public will be discussed.
Saturday, April 29 2017, 4 pm - 4.45 pm
A brief overview of the Kingussie area in prehistory
Adam Welfare
Venue: Talla nan Ross, King Street, Kingussie
This talk will focus on the key sites and monuments in the neighbourhood and what they have to tell us about life in the past.
Sunday, April 30 2017
Farm Servants of South-East Scotland, 1750-1914
David Mclean
Venue: Corn Exchange & Ormiston Institute, Market Square, Melrose, TD6 9PN
Borders Family History Society
David McLean spotlights the labourers, hinds and bondagers through the period of improvements in farming in the rich agricultural countryside of Berwickshire, East Lothian and Roxburghshire.
Sunday, April 30 2017, 9.30 am
Excursion to Glen Feshie
Venue: Talla nan Ross, King Street, Kingussie
Led by David Taylor, Ian Moffett and Thomas MacDonnel to Glen Feshie, from where people emigrated to Tasmania, Australia and Canada. Meet at Talla nan Ross 9.30 am. Walk rated at medium level. Bring waterproof clothing, walking boots and packed lunch. No dogs please. Prebook on Saturday.
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