Forum Meetings 2025/26

 

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 2025/26

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 7.00pm.

9/10/25      Final Plague Outbreak in Scotland – Professor Marc Oxenham, University of Aberdeen

13/11/25      Fairlie’s Secret War – John Riddell

11/12/25     Why has Paisley so many Church Buildings? – Duncan Macintosh

12/02/26   The Archaeological Origins of Drumelzier’s Merlin Legend – Ronan Toolis, GUARD Archaeology

12/03/26    In the Footsteps of Bonny Dundee? Hunting for (Archaeological Traces of Covenanters in the Clyde Region – Dr Edward Stewart, CVARF Engagement Officer, University of Glasgow

9/04/26    AGM    Election of Office  Bearers and Committee Members for 2026/27 . 

14/05/26     The History and Archaeology of the Treshnish Isles – Derek Alexander, Head of Archaeology, National Trust for Scotland