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, March 20 2018, 7 pm
The Mills of the Water of Leith
Bob Bell
Venue: Newhaven Parish Church Hall
Newhaven Community History Group
Occasional visitors welcome at £2 per meeting
Wednesday, March 21 2018, 7 pm
Annual dinner followed by Sir William Burrell and the Burrell Collection
Margaret Anderson, University of Glasgow
Venue: Best Western Eglinton Arms Hotel, Eaglesham
Members free, non-members £3 at the door
Thursday, March 22 2018, 5.15 pm
Lyon Playfair and the Irish university question, 1871-1880
Professor Robert Anderson (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Room G.13, Doorway 4, Old Medical School
University of Edinburgh
The Scottish History research seminars take place throughout the academic year and are open to all.
Thursday, March 22 2018, 7.30 pm
DNA in Genealogy
Graham Holton
Venue: Portland Church hall, South Beach, Troon
Troon & Ayrshire Family History Society
Thursday, March 22 2018, 7.30 pm
History of cinema projection
Ian Rintoul
Venue: Dirleton Kirk Hall
Gullane and Dirleton History Society
Friday, March 23 2018, 7.30 pm
Tracking Dinosaurs on Scotland’s Jurassic Isle
Dr. Neil Clark
Venue: Eden Court, Bishops Rd, Inverness IV3 5SA
Friday, March 23 2018, 7.30 pm
Meet the Ghosts of Liddesdale and Teviotdale: Ghost Walks
Venue: Turnbull Statue, Hawick Civic Space
Come and meet the Ghosts of Hawick past and hear the grizzly and gory stories of our ancestors! The Ghost walks have proved very popular in previous years and tickets are likely to sell out fast. The tours will last approximately 50min and will involve a short walk. Please dress warmly and bring along a small torch!
Tickets £4 each or £10 for family of 4 (2 adults and 2 primary age children)
Friday, March 23 2018, 7.30 pm - 9.30 pm
Tracking Dinosaurs on Scotland’s Jurassic Isle
Dr Nell Clark
Venue: Eden Court, Bishops Rd, Inverness IV3 5SA
Friday, March 23 2018, 8.30 pm
Meet the Ghosts of Liddesdale and Teviotdale: Ghost Walks
Venue: Turnbull Statue, Hawick Civic Space
Come and meet the Ghosts of Hawick past and hear the grizzly and gory stories of our ancestors! The Ghost walks have proved very popular in previous years and tickets are likely to sell out fast. The tours will last approximately 50min and will involve a short walk. Please dress warmly and bring along a small torch!
Tickets £4 each or £10 for family of 4 (2 adults and 2 primary age children)
Saturday, March 24 2018, 1.30 pm
In the Footsteps of Reivers
Brian Dingle
Venue: Heritage Hub, Hawick
Have you ever thought how a book comes to fruition? What brought the first seeds of an idea to the printed page? I’d like to take you through my new book “In the Footsteps of Reivers” where the idea came from. What motivated me to do it and what I left out. What areas I visited and the events that happened. How I went about finding a publisher and what they said about the manuscript. Then a guide through the publishing process of why the book took its final form.
Brian Dingle Brought up on the English side of the border, Brian retains a love of the area and its unique history. Combining this love of history with photographic skills, Brian has had success with his images from sports to Natural history and landscape. A published technical author Brian has turned his attention to his homeland and its rich history.
Saturday, March 24 2018, 10.30 am - 3 pm
16th Century Market
Venue: Hawick High Street
Including Reivers Trials, Live Entertainment and Reivers Games
Saturday, March 24 2018, 10.30 am - 3 pm
Borders Kith and Kin
Venue: Hawick High Street
Meet the Border Families, learn their story past and present. Find out if you are connected to the Reiving Clans and learn how to research your own family history
Saturday, March 24 2018, 10.30 am - 3 pm
Reivers Encampment
Venue: Wee Haugh, Hawick
Full programme of re-enactments including displays of Musket Drills and hand to hand skirmishes and mock battles with static displays of life in the 16th Century Border Lands.
Sunday, March 25 2018
Borders Kith and Kin
Venue: Drumlanrig Tower
Times and details to be confirmed but there will be a series of talks including:
"The Scotts of Buccleuch" by Dr Malcolm Morrison, "The restoration of Gilnockie Tower" by Ian Martin, and "The Elliot Family by Derek Stewart.
Sunday, March 25 2018, 4.30 pm
The Tower House – Not just a home, more a way of life.
Margaret Skea
Venue: Mansfield Park, Hawick RFC
The talk will consider location, architecture, and domestic features of the Scottish tower house, to illustrate how it not only reflected, but was essential to the reiver’s life and lifestyle. Hosted by Hawick Rotary Club
Tickets £15 – (Advanced Booking Essential) Available at Border Events, ILF Imaging, and Dorwards
Margaret Skea grew up in Northern Ireland during the ‘Troubles’, so is no stranger to conflict. Her passion is for authentic, atmospheric historical fiction. Her first novel, Turn of the Tide won her the Beryl Bainbridge Award for Best 1st Time Novelist 2014, and the sequel A House Divided was longlisted for the Historical Novel Society New Novel Award 2016. Both follow the fortunes of a fictional family trapped in the long-running and bloody feud between the Cunninghames and Montgomeries, known as the Ayrshire Vendetta, which had many features in common with the lifestyle of the Border Reivers.
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