Renfrewshire Local History Forum

RLHF Lecture
2017-03-09 19:30 - 21:30 (Europe/London) | Paisley Museum, High Street, Paisley, PA1 2BA, United Kingdom
Kite Photography as applied to archaeology
John Wells
The Archaeological Kite Aerial Photography Group

RLHF Lecture
2017-04-13 19:30 - 21:30 | Paisley Museum, High Street, Paisley, PA1 2BA, United Kingdom
The Roman Assault of Brunswark Hill – a battle rehabilitated
John Reid
The Brunswark Hill Project

RLHF Lecture
2017-05-11 19:30 - 21:30 | Paisley Museum, High Street, Paisley, PA1 2BA, United Kingdom
Member’s Night and Forum AGM

Renfrewshire Local History Forum
2017-10-12 19:30 - 21:30 | Paisley Museum, High Street, Paisley, PA1 2BA, United Kingdom
Discovering Dark Age Galloway and the Lost Kingdom of Rheged Speaker: Ronan Toolis, GUARD Archaeology

Renfrewshire Local History Forum
2017-11-09 19:30 - 21:30 | Paisley Museum, High Street, Paisley, PA1 2BA, United Kingdom
In the Footsteps of the Grand Tours: The 18th Century in Perthshire Speaker: Ian Hill, HARP Archaeology

Renfrewshire Local History Forum
2017-12-14 19:30 - 21:30 | Paisley Museum, High Street, Paisley, PA1 2BA, United Kingdom
Life and Death of the 5300 Year Old Iceman. Speaker: Professor James Dickson

Renfrewshire Local History Forum
2018-02-08 19:30 - 21:30 | Paisley Museum, High Street, Paisley, PA1 2BA, United Kingdom
Recent Archaeological Investigations at the Site of Partick Castle. Speaker: Bob Will, GUARD Archaeology

Renfrewshire Local History Forum
2018-03-08 19:30 - 21:30 | Paisley Museum, High Street, Paisley, PA1 2BA, United Kingdom
Neolithic Halls, Bronze Age Roundhouse and a Late Bronze Age Hoard at Carnoustie. Speaker: Alan Blair, GUARD Archaeology

Renfrewshire Local History Forum
2018-04-12 19:30 - 21:30 | Paisley Museum, High Street, Paisley, PA1 2BA, United Kingdom
A Family of Threads. Speaker: Stephen Clancy, Paisley Thread Mill Museum

Renfrewshire Local History Forum
2018-05-10 19:30 - 21:30 | Paisley Museum, High Street, Paisley, PA1 2BA, United Kingdom
AGM

Renfrewshire Local History Forum
2018-10-11 19:30 - 21:30 | D137/9, McLean Building, UWS, Storie Street, Paisley, PA1 2BE, United Kingdom
Newark Castle: History, Archaeology and Interpretation
Adrian Cox, Historic Environment Scotland

Renfrewshire Local History Forum
2018-11-08 19:30 - 21:30 | D137/9, McLean Building, UWS, Storie Street, Paisley, PA1 2BE, United Kingdom
St Conval to All Hallows: 1400 Years and Counting
A recent community archaeology project in Inchinnan
Heather James, Calluna Archaeology

Renfrewshire Local History Forum
2018-12-13 19:30 - 21:30 | D137/9, McLean Building, UWS, Storie Street, Paisley, PA1 2BE, United Kingdom
Excavating the Galloway Hoard
Andrew Nicholson, Archaeologist Dumfries & Galloway Council

Renfrewshire Local History Forum
2019-02-14 19:30 - 21:30 | D137/9, McLean Building, UWS, Storie Street, Paisley, PA1 2BE, United Kingdom
The Blackened Charcoal so Brightly Burns: the Evolution of an Ironworking Site at Hunterston, North Ayrshire
Louise Turner, Rathmell Archaeology

Renfrewshire Local History Forum
2019-03-14 19:30 - 21:30 | D137/9, McLean Building, UWS, Storie Street, Paisley, PA1 2BE, United Kingdom
Field Survey on Arran 1995-2017: Two Deserted Settlements at Cul an Droma and Cor na Beithe
Ian Marshall

Renfrewshire Local History Forum
2019-04-11 19:30 - 21:30 | D137/9, McLean Building, UWS, Storie Street, Paisley, PA1 2BE, United Kingdom
Old Maps of Paisley
Neil Fraser, Historic Environment Scotland

Renfrewshire Local History Forum
2019-05-09 19:30 - 21:30 | D137/9, McLean Building, UWS, Storie Street, Paisley, PA1 2BE, United Kingdom
Members Night & Forum AGM

Renfrewshire Local History Forum
2019-10-10 19:30 - 21:30 | D137/9, McLean Building, UWS, Storie Street, Paisley, PA1 2BE, United Kingdom
St Kilda: on-going research 1999 – 2019
Bob Will and Dr Anthony Byledbal
Guard Archaeology

Renfrewshire Local History Forum
2019-11-14 19:30 - 21:30 | D137/9, McLean Building, UWS, Storie Street, Paisley, PA1 2BE, United Kingdom
The Clan Macfarlane Arrochar project: three rare late medieval buildings on Loch Lomond
Heather James
Calluna Archaeology

Renfrewshire Local History Forum
2019-12-12 19:30 - 21:30 | D137/9, McLean Building, UWS, Storie Street, Paisley, PA1 2BE, United Kingdom
The Summer Sheilings
Anne Macdonald
ACFA

Renfrewshire Local History Forum
2020-02-13 19:30 - 21:30 | D137/9, McLean Building, UWS, Storie Street, Paisley, PA1 2BE, United Kingdom
‘Ye Jacobites by name’: recent archaeological work at Glencoe and Glenshiel
Derek Alexander
Chief archaeologist, National Trust for Scotland

Renfrewshire Local History Forum
2020-03-12 19:30 - 21:30 | D137/9, McLean Building, UWS, Storie Street, Paisley, PA1 2BE, United Kingdom
The Govan Stones – examining, interpreting and presenting a cultural resource
Stephen T. Driscoll
Professor of Historical Archaeology, University of Glasgow

Renfrewshire Local History Forum
2020-04-09 19:30 - 21:30 | D137/9, McLean Building, UWS, Storie Street, Paisley, PA1 2BE, United Kingdom
Where once were houses, so shall there be again: prehistoric settlement activity at Northbar, Erskine
Dave McNicol
Guard Archaeology

Renfrewshire Local History Forum
2020-05-14 19:30 - 21:30 | D137/9, McLean Building, UWS, Storie Street, Paisley, PA1 2BE, United Kingdom
AGM and Members Night

Renfrewshire Local History Forum
2022-12-08 19:30 - 21:00 | D137/9, McLean Building, UWS, Storie Street, Paisley, PA1 2BE, United Kingdom
AGM, Short Presentation and Christmas Night Speaker TBA

Renfrewshire Local History Forum
2023-03-09 19:30 - 21:00 | D137/9, McLean Building, UWS, Storie Street, Paisley, PA1 2BE, United Kingdom
The Govan Stones-examining, interpreting and presenting a cultural resource Stephen Driscoll – Professor of Historical Archaeology, University of Glasgow

Stobs Camp - Art & Creativity in a Barbed - Wire World. Andrew Jepson, Archaeology Scotland
2024-10-10 19:30 - 21:00 | D137/9, McLean Building, UWS, Storie Street, Paisley, PA1 2BE, United Kingdom
Hello everyone and welcome to another exciting session of Lectures at Paisley University. We will meet in the same room as before D137 ground floor of the McLean Building

Stobs Military Camp

For nearly 60 years, thousands of young men used the facilities at Stobs Camp near Hawick in the Scottish Borders to train for war. Now the bleak, windswept hills lie as silent witnesses to all that passed before them.
Stobs Camp has significant historical importance with its quality of remains, intact training ground, massive archaeological potential and huge educational resource. Due to its extraordinary level of preservation Stobs Camp is an internationally important site relating to Scotland’s preparation for and subsequent handling of First World War prisoners.
Within Scotland no site exists with the mix of army training camp and prisoners of war and internees in one place, none has the surviving remains visible as at Stobs, no other camp has any standing buildings and much of the training ground including firing ranges and trenches surviving. And within the UK, no First World War prisoner of war camp has upstanding buildings remaining, no internees’ camp survives on the mainland, and no training camps survive to the same level of preservation.
This is why Stobs is so important.
Mr Andrew Jepson a.jepson@archaeologyscotland.org.uk will be discussing the similarity of internment and lockdown and how, today, we can be inspired by the resolve of the First World War prisoners at Stobs by looking at their material culture. The talk starts with a brief overview of the camp to set the scene.
About Andrew,
“After moving to Scotland in 2006 Andrew set in motion his plan to transition from working in IT to following his passion for history and archaeology. His interest in practical archaeology began in 2011 when he started volunteering for the National Trust for Scotland. In his spare time, he continues to help the Trust supervise community archaeology digs. In 2017 he became an NTS Thistle Camp Leader.

Andrew joined Archaeology Scotland in 2015 to run an educational project focusing on the Jacobite’s in Stirlingshire. This included managing two archaeological digs at St Ninians Kirk and Dunblane for over 300 children. In the same year he graduated with a First-Class Honours degree in History, helped organise the Borders Heritage Festival and ran Gallipoli-related exhibition school workshops at Old Gala House. In 2016 he helped curate a Celts exhibition for Borders Museums and for Archaeology Scotland he began work on the Stobs Camp Project with the aim of exploring, sharing and commemorating the First World War site near Hawick in the Scottish Borders. He has subsequently developed a keen interest in First World War internment camps.

He is passionate about promoting the history, heritage and archaeology of the Scottish Borders.”

Final Plague Outbreak in Scotland
2025-10-09 19:00 - 21:00 | D137/9, McLean Building, UWS, Storie Street, Paisley, PA1 2BE, United Kingdom
Professor Marc Oxenham, University of Aberdeen
Marc Oxenham is an Honorary Professor at the University of Aberdeen and an Emeritus Professor in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University. He is a member of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. He has worked in the USA, China, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines. Professor Oxenham is best known as a bioarchaeologist, focusing on human biological and socio-cultural adaptation to climate and technological variability/change in Holocene Southeast Asia.

Fairlie's Secret War
2025-11-13 19:00 - 21:00 | D137/9, McLean Building, UWS, Storie Street, Paisley, PA1 2BE, United Kingdom
John Riddell
John Riddell had a distinguished career as a civil engineer and is a noted historian of Ayrshire and the Clyde. He is the author of a number of books about the Clyde including Fairlie’s Secret War, about Fairlie’s little known, crucial role in WWII. In 2024 he was honoured by the Ayrshire Federation of Historical Societies for his contribution to the recording of Ayrshire’s history. He was the 2024 recipient of the John Strawhorn Memorial Quaich, an annual award presented to a person who has made an outstanding contribution to recording the history and heritage of Ayrshire.

Why Has Paisley so many Churches?
2025-12-11 19:00 - 21:00 | D137/9, McLean Building, UWS, Storie Street, Paisley, PA1 2BE, United Kingdom
Mr Duncan Macintosh
Duncan Macintosh is a retired building conservation officer who worked for Renfrewshire Council and who now champions the retention of historic architecture in Paisley. He is a very knowledgeable local historian involved in activities such as leading architectural walks in Paisley. He currently leads the Paisley and District U3AArchitecture Appreciation group which visits buildings and places of interest in the area about once a month.
