Forum Meetings 2024/25

 

Renfrewshire Local History Forum Lectures are open to non-members with no admission charge but a small donation would be appreciated.

Archaeology & Local History Lectures 2024/25 

Meetings are held in Room D137/9  on the ground floor to the right of the entrance to the McLean Building, UWS, Storie Street, Paisley on Thursday evenings at 7.30pm.

10/10/24    Stobs Camp – Art & Creativity in a Barbed -Wire World   Andrew Jepson, Archaeology Scotland

14/11/24      Lost Lives, New Worlds. Unlocking the story of the 1650 Scottish soldiers buried on Palace Green in Durham.     

                      Dr Chris Gerrard, Professor of Archaeology, Durham University

12/12/24     Title TBC     Dr Vanessa Traill, University of Glasgow

13/02/25    “We wined them and dined them, they ate o’ our meat” : new insights into subsistence, settlement and status in Early Modern Glencoe.

                       Edward Stewart, PhD Researcher, University of Glasgow

13/03/25    Renfrewshire’s History, True or False?     Dr Stuart Nisbet

10/04/25    AGM

15/05/24     Pioneering Spirit; the archaeology and history of whisky making in Scotland.     

                     Derek Alexander, Head of Archaeology, National Trust for Scotland