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history talks and events 31 Oct - 6 Nov 2016

25/10/2016

Upcoming family history talks and events in Scotland, 31 October - 6 November 2016

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, October 31 2016, 5.30 pm

The Public History of Scotland and Caribbean Slavery

Louise Welsh (Glasgow), Stephen Mullen (Glasgow) and Michael Hopcroft (Glasgow Caledonian)

Venue: Room 202, 3 University Gardens, Glasgow

Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies

Monday, October 31 2016, 7.30 pm

John Tweedie Memorial Lecture, It’s A Dogs Life

Hamish Coghill

Venue: Gibson Craig Memorial Hall, Lanark Road West, Currie

Currie & District Local History Society

Monday, October 31 2016, 7.30 pm

Photographs of Cupar

Allan Carr

Venue: Age Concern Building, Provost Wynd, Cupar

Cupar Heritage

Tuesday, November 1 2016, 1 pm

“Imprest on vellum": Lowland language and the early American republic, c. 1800-1830

Sean Murphy (University of St Andrews)

Venue: Room G16, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School

Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies

Diaspora Studies Graduate Workshop Series

Tuesday, November 1 2016, 5.30 pm

Memory and the work of forgetting: telling protest in rural England

Dr Carl Griffin, Reader in Historical Geography, University of Sussex

Venue: Ross House, Dornoch

University of the Highlands and Islands Centre for History

This paper offers an initial attempt to think through how, against markers of traumatic pasts, English rural communities in the long eighteenth century attempted both to forget and to reinscribe the past in usable ways.

Tuesday, November 1 2016, 6.45 pm for 7.15 pm

The Life of Eric Liddell

Sue Caton

Venue: Morningside Parish Church Hall

Morningside Heritage Association

Tuesday, November 1 2016, 7.00 pm - 9.00 pm

Bangour War Hospital (incl. Hopetoun and Polkemmet Aux. Hospitals) WWI

Sybil Cavanagh

Venue: Lanthorn Community Education Complex, Kenilworth Rise, Livingston EH54 6JL

West Lothian Family History Society

Tuesday, November 1 2016, 7.30 pm

From Cannon to Steam Propulsion

Professor Michael Moss

Venue: Fairweather Hall, Barrhead Road, Newton Mearns, G77 6BB

Mearns History Group

The origins of Clyde Engineering.

Tuesday, November 1 2016, 7.30 pm

The Victoria Cross

Alexander Hall

Venue: Kilmarnock College, Hill Street, Kilmarnock

Kilmarnock & District History Group

£2 donation for non-members

Wednesday, November 2 2016, 2 pm - 3 pm

The Argyll Papers

Alison Diamond

Venue: New Register House, Princes Street, Edinburgh

National Records of Scotland

Professor Allan Macinnes (Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Strathclyde and expert on Highland history), has described the Argyll Papers held at Inveraray Castle as ‘one of the most important private archives in Britain.’ Alison will talk about the archives, their history and content, and the current focus on raising the profile of the collection and making it more accessible. She will speak about the forthcoming partnership project with Argyll and Bute Council, Written in the Landscape, which will catalogue collections of family papers and conserve the maps and plans held at Inveraray Castle, working with local communities and heritage centres throughout Argyll. (New Register House)

Wednesday, November 2 2016, 4 pm

Lochbrown Landscape Proect: the hidden archaeology of a prehistoric landscape

Kirsty Millican, HES

Venue: Lecture Theatre (109), Gregory Building

University of Glasgow

Wednesday, November 2 2016, 7.30 pm

Art and Architecture in Neolithic Orkney: Process, Temporality and Context

Dr Antonia Thomas

Venue: Orkney College

Orkney Archaeology Society

Launch of Dr. Antonia Thomas' exciting new book on Neolithic Art, plus the chance to buy the book at a discount.

Thursday, November 3 2016, 7 pm