BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Renfrewshire Local History Forum - ECPv6.1.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Renfrewshire Local History Forum X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://rlhf.info X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Renfrewshire Local History Forum REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250213T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250213T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T230450 CREATED:20240811T180004Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240811T201957Z UID:5008-1739475000-1739480400@rlhf.info SUMMARY:"We wined them and dined them\, they ate o' our meat; new insights into subsistence\, settlement and status in Early Modern Glencoe. Edward Stewart\, University of Glasgow DESCRIPTION:From travellers’ accounts and romantic re-imaginings perceptions of the Highlands of Scotland as a backward\, isolated and impoverished region in the early modern period dominate popular narratives around landscapes such as Glencoe\, and frame events such as the Cromwellian\, Williamite and Jacobite wars. Recent excavations by the University of Glasgow and National Trust for Scotland in Glencoe at the Summerhouse of Maclain\, and townships of Achnacon and Achtriochtan\, and shielings of Gleann Leac-na-Muidhe\, can allow us to construct new narratives around the connectivity of communities in this region  and the strategies these communities developed for subsistence.  These excavations allow us to build a picture of life in Glencoe before and after the events of the 1692 massacre and consider the responses of the communities of this landscape to this event\, and the worsening climatic conditions of the Little Ice Age. URL:https://rlhf.info/event/we-wined-them-and-dined-them-they-ate-o-our-meat-new-insights-into-subsistence-settlement-and-status-in-early-modern-glencoe-edward-stewart-university-of-glasgow/ LOCATION:D137/9\, McLean Building\, UWS\, Storie Street\, Paisley\, PA1 2BE\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:RLHF Archaeology END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250313T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250313T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T230450 CREATED:20240811T201456Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250130T202521Z UID:5010-1741894200-1741899600@rlhf.info SUMMARY:An introduction to Renfrewshire's land-assessment system\, Denis Rixson DESCRIPTION:For anyone interested in the early history of Renfrewshire we have very limited historical  records; what archaeology tells us and what place-names imply. However we conjure it\, the legacy is sparse and we must extract all that we can from those records we do have.  There is one source of historical information which has been relatively neglected and that is land-assessment. Land-assessment simply means the study of the relative valuations put on land over many centuries. It sounds tedious. Dry-as-dust collections of data where Farm A is worth so many merklands\, Farm B so many pennylands and Farm C a davach\, an arachor\, or a carucate. But\, put it all together and the landscape soon reveals an arithmetic pattern. The earliest settlers in Renfrewshire behaved exactly as they did in every other cultivable county in Britain. They divided up the landscape in a coherent manner and gave it a fiscal overlay. In most parts of Scotland there are at least two fiscal overlays\, geared to each other by exchange rates. Arithmetic is the key to unlocking these systems and the relationships between them. \nFrom Inverkip to Houston Parish\, 1065 to the present day. If you have ever wondered where nameplaces and areas within the  old  County of Renfrewshire came about this is definately for you. \nDenis has published several  books on the Scottish Highlands some you may know :  The West Highland Way\,  Arisaig & Morar\,  Knoydart\,  The Hebridean Traveller and more. URL:https://rlhf.info/event/renfrewshires-history-true-or-false-dr-stuart-nisbet/ LOCATION:D137/9\, McLean Building\, UWS\, Storie Street\, Paisley\, PA1 2BE\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:RLHF Archaeology END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250410T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250410T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T230450 CREATED:20240811T201547Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250406T103415Z UID:5012-1744313400-1744318800@rlhf.info SUMMARY:AGM Election of Office Bearer's and Committee Members 2025/26 A short introduction on the activities of the RLHF from Peter Crawford. DESCRIPTION:An introduction to the activities of the RLHF in and around Renfrewshire. We begin with a presentation of photographs donated to the forum by the Connacher family from Bridge of Weir . The collection of well over 4000 images has revealed some unique photographs taken in Renfrewshire  dating back to the early 1900’s . This will be followed by a short talk on how we handle webmail enquiries\, web site\,facebook\, research work and our field trips.  If you have an interest in any aspect of the above please speak with any committee member present and we will explain further details to you. URL:https://rlhf.info/event/agm/ LOCATION:D137/9\, McLean Building\, UWS\, Storie Street\, Paisley\, PA1 2BE\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:RLHF Archaeology END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250515T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250515T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T230450 CREATED:20240811T201723Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250430T184331Z UID:5014-1747337400-1747342800@rlhf.info SUMMARY:Pioneering Spirit; the archaeology and history of whisky making in Scotland Derek Alexander\, Head of Archaeology National Trust for Scotland DESCRIPTION:The Pioneering Spirit project  is the first project of its kind. This nationwide archaeology and research programme is working to uncover the hidden history of whiskey-making in the Scottish landscape\,from its illicit beginnings to the rise of industrial distilleries.Its seeking to unearth both old and new stories\,as well as ground the knowledge and the mythology of illicit whiskey-making back to the very places it happened. \nTo date the team has identified 30 sites of illicit whiskey production across the landscapes in the care of NTS and it is expected there are more. Illicit stills have so far been uncovered in Trust places including Torridon\, Kintail\, Grey Mare’s Tail\,Nature Reserve\,and Mar Lodge Estate National Nature Reserve. We’ve also been exploring the beginnings of licensed whiskey production in Speyside. We are all looking forward to meeting up with Derek again\, a long term member of the Renfrewshire Local History Forum. URL:https://rlhf.info/event/pioneering-spirit-the-archaeology-and-history-of-whisky-making-in-scotland-derek-alexander-head-of-archaeology-nts/ LOCATION:D137/9\, McLean Building\, UWS\, Storie Street\, Paisley\, PA1 2BE\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:RLHF Archaeology ORGANIZER;CN="Renfrewshire%20Local%20History%20Forum.":MAILTO:petercrawford1947@sky.com END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR