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, October 10 2017, 1 pm - 1.10 pm
The Food of Empire: A Scot’s Role in Propagating Slave Food
Marenka Thompson-Odlum, University of Glasgow
Venue: Hunterian Museum Gilbert Scott building University of Glasgow G12 8QQ
Black History Month
Marenka Thompson-Odlum uses the image of one of our Walter Hood Fitch watercolours to tell the history of bread fruit and its role in the slave trade. www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian /visit/insighttalks/
Tuesday, October 10 2017, 10:15 - 11:45
U3A Family History Group
Open Session
Venue: Turriff Library, Grange Villa, The Square, Turriff, AB43 5AE
Tuesday, October 10 2017, 12.30pm - 2.00pm
Heads up at Provand’s Lordship: Old Glasgow and the slave trade
Dr Anthony Lewis
Venue: St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art, 2 Castle Street Glasgow G4 0RH
Black History Month
This talk by Scottish History Curator Dr. Anthony Lewis will look at stone sculptures, decorative art work and paintings at Provand’s Lordship signifying Glasgow’s historic connections of the transatlantic trade with tobacco, sugar and slavery from the late 1600s onwards. Free Event www.glasgowmuseums.com
Tuesday, October 10 2017, 5.30 pm - 7.30 pm
Medieval
Steve Boardman; Dauvit Broun, Stephen Driscoll, Thomas Clancy
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, October 10 2017, 7.30 pm
TBA
Martin Pucci
Venue: Buchan Hotel, Ellon
Ellon and District Heritage Society
Entrance £3
Tuesday, October 10 2017, 7.30 pm
Italians in Fife
Norma Alari
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, October 10 2017, 7.30 pm - 9.30 pm
Southern Necropolis
Colin Mackie
Venue: Masonic Halls, Collier Street, Johnstone
Wednesday, October 11 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, October 11 2017, 6.30 pm, refreshments available from 6 pm
The British Association's 1867 meeting in Dundee viewed through the prism of legacy
Eddie Small, University of Dundee
Venue: Lecture Theatre 2, Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee
Free but donations requested from non-members.
Wednesday, October 11 2017, 7 pm
The Death and Life of the Great Lafayette
Ian Robertson & Gordon Rutter
Venue: Augustine Church, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh
Free to members, £5 for guests. Disabled access and hearing loop
Wednesday, October 11 2017, 7.30 pm
How to trace your family history: Tracing Quaker ancestors
Paul Burton
Venue: Smith Museum and Art Gallery
Central Scotland Family History Society
Wednesday, October 11 2017, 7.45 pm
Knights Templar
Robbie Fisher
Venue: RAF Club, Ardgowan Square, Greenock
Thursday, October 12 2017, 7 pm
The 1911 census
Ken Nisbet
Venue: GLO Centre, 78 Muir Street, MOTHERWELL. ML1 1BN
Lanarkshire Family History Society
Thursday, October 12 2017, 7 pm - 9 pm
Carrick Coast - Old Railway, Ayr to Girvan
Robert Smillie
Venue: Johnnie Walker Bond, Strand Street Kilmarnock
East Ayrshire Family History Society
Thursday, October 12 2017, 7.30 pm
The Deeside Line
Mike Cooper
Venue: MacRobert Hall, The Square, Tarland
Mike Cooper is the former picture archivist for the Great North of Scotland Railway Association and is author of the book “The Great North of Scotland Railway -Then and Now”. He will take us on a virtual tour along the railway line from Aberdeen to Ballater.
Thursday, October 12 2017, 7.30 pm
The Botany of Ailsa Craig
Bernard Zonfrillo, Honorary Lecturer, University of Glasgow
Venue: Blue Room, Town Hall, Ayr
Ayrshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
Thursday, October 12 2017, 7.30 pm
Working for a living. Terms and conditions from Palmerston to Lloyd George
Andrew Ramage
Venue: Dirleton Kirk Hall
Gullane and Dirleton History Society
An old family diary led to fascinating insights into living and working conditions in the late 1800s
Thursday, October 12 2017, 7.30 pm - 9.30 pm
Fife Airfields
Group Captain Jim Leggat
Venue: Elie Church Hall
Elie & Earlsferry History Society
Group Captain Jim Leggat is an authority on former airfields in general and those in Fife in particular. Jim, who lives in Dunfermline, will be including some interesting stories about the many former airfields in the East Neuk.
Friday, October 13 2017, 1 pm - 3 pm
Slavery and Scotland: Through the lens of Material Culture
Venue: Gallery of Modern Art, 1 Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow G1 3AH
Black History Month
The talk will explore Scotland’s history with slavery through the material culture of Glasgow’s Museums. These objects’ direct and indirect links to the slave trade will also illuminate Scotland’s role in Empire. Free event with registration Register at tinyurl.com/crereventbrite
Friday, October 13 2017, 2 pm - 2.45 pm
May her life be perfect
Venue: Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum Argyle Street, Glasgow G3 8AG
Black History Month
May her life be perfect Ankhesnefer lived in Thebes during ancient Egyptian times. Her name means “may her life be perfect”, yet she died of a sword wound to the head. How did she end up in Glasgow? This tour is aimed at adults, but families with children are welcome to attend. Free event www.glasgowmuseums.com
Friday, October 13 2017, 4 pm
‘The Battle of the Forests: The little-known story of the Canadian Forestry Corps in the Scottish Highlands during World War II’
Melynda Jarratt (Fredericton, New Brunswick)
Venue: G.14, Doorway 4, Old Medical School
University of Edinburgh
Scottish history research seminar. See here for more details.
Saturday, October 14 2017, 1 pm
Uncovered Stories
Venue: Culloden Battlefield
Walk around and discover what was left behind on the moor and the stories they can tell us. This tour will look at the facinating archaeology on the field. All children must be accompanied by an adult. This tour will last approx. 60 minutes. Adult £5, child £4.50, family £12.50
Saturday, October 14 2017, 1 pm - 2.30 pm
Salvona the Lion Tamer 100 Years On
Venue: Highland Archive Centre, Bught Park, Inverness
Ambrose Salvona, a lion tamer, spent the last years of his life in Inverness. When he died in the Inverness Poorhouse in 1917, his friends organised a march from Inverness Castle to Tomnahurich Cemetery. The march was accompanied by the Salvation Army Band and advertised in the Inverness Courier. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of his death, the Highland Archive Centre is proud to host an afternoon of talks about his fascinating life and family. Free event but bookins are required - to book please telephone 01463 256444 or email archives@highlifehighland.com
Saturday, October 14 2017, 10 am - 4 pm
Tomb Readers: Throwing New Light on Worn Inscriptions with Digital Photography
Venue: St Patrick’s Churchyard, Dalzell Estate
Clyde and Avon Valley Landscape Partnership
Learn how to use Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) to take photos capturing a surface’s shape and colour in three dimensions and see the carvings in more detail than has been seen for many years.
http://www.clydeandavonvalley.org/component/zoo/item/treasured-remains-to-bring-historic-graveyards-to-life
Saturday, October 14 2017, 11 am
Market Knowe guided walk
Venue: Meet at Huntly Wood carpark
Free but donations requested from non-members.
Saturday, October 14 2017, 2 pm - 4 pm
Bring along a brick wall
Venue: Elgin Library, Cooper Park, Elgin, IV30 1HS
Aberdeen and North East Scotland Family History Society
Saturday, October 14 2017, 2 pm - 4 pm
George Square - Slavery & Abolition
Dr Michael Morris
Venue: Meet outside Glasgow City Chambers George Square, Glasgow G2 1DU
Black History Month
Glasgow’s George Square was laid out in 1781 and the statues, erected between 1819 and 1902, are designed to celebrate scientists, writers, military figures, politicians and royals. But these sculptures and monuments largely tell a sanitised story of Empire - whether a clean story of trade from the Clyde, or an orderly procession of colonised peoples paying tribute to a monarch. Dr. Michael Morris’s walk and talk looks to highlight a more difficult context and to provide a counter-narrative to this cleaned up history. Join him as he reveals a hidden history of Scotland’s complicated involvement in slavery associated with each and every one of the statues on display. Free event with registration Register at tinyurl.com/crereventbrite
Sunday, October 15 2017, 1 pm - 3 pm
CRER Walking Tour
Venue: Starting point at Glasgow Cathedral Just off Castle Street, Glasgow G4 0QZ
Black History Month
Join us on an historical journey through Glasgow’s mercantile past and examine the connections with slavery, tobacco and the abolition movement. See the reality of Glasgow’s role in the enslavement of human beings.The tour will be led by Adebusola Debora Ramsay and Marenka Thompson-Odlum.
Sunday, October 15 2017, 10 am - 4 pm
Tomb Readers: Throwing New Light on Worn Inscriptions with Digital Photography
Venue: St Patrick’s Churchyard, Dalzell Estate
Clyde and Avon Valley Landscape Partnership
Learn how to use Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) to take photos capturing a surface’s shape and colour in three dimensions and see the carvings in more detail than has been seen for many years.
http://www.clydeandavonvalley.org/component/zoo/item/treasured-remains-to-bring-historic-graveyards-to-life
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