Events

SLHF Conferences attract a variety of interested parties and are held in locations around Scotland. The AGM and a conference are held in the autumn and we also aim to hold a spring activity, such as workshop, fair or conference.

Recent Conference Subjects

Local History in the 5-14 Curriculum | Scottish Interiors | Scots Abroad | Sources for Scottish Local History | Maps for Local History | Scottish Childhoods | The Scottish Landed Estate | Scottish Burghs | The Statistical Accounts of Scotland | Scotland and Slavery | Perspectives on the Past | Scotland's Horticultural Heritage | A Zest for Information!: Sir John Sinclair's contribution to Scottish Local History | Travellers, Turnpikes & Tar: 1000 years of Scotland's Roads | For Reliefe of the Pure & Impotent: welfare in Scotland before the welfare state | Salt, Sun & Shivering: Scots at the Seaside 1750-2000 | Trades & Crafts in Scotland, medieval to modern | Crime & Punishment | Down to the Sea in Ships | Safe as Houses - Scotland's defensive buildings through time | Fairs, Fetes & Festivals | After the War Is Over - The Legacy of WW1 | Seeing the Wood for the Trees | Taking Part: Aspects of Scottish Sports and Pastimes | Scotland Against Slavery: The Local View | Engineering, Science and Technology

Volunteers to help with Forum activities, and suggestions for topics and venues for future events are always welcome.

Upcoming Events

Use the search boxes below to search titles by keyword or search by town/city: or you can sort by clicking on Location or Member Organisation. You can also view by month on the Calendar.

Start Date Title Location Member Organisation
23 Oct 2024 - 10:00 Estate, Household and Family Collections and their Use in Research Part 1 Aberdeen
23 Oct 2024 - 19:30 Scotland's Castles - Fortress, Home & Symbol. What is a Castle? Gartmore Gartmore Heritage Society
24 Oct 2024 - 14:30 "Scotland Beneath the Surface". Edinburgh Other: Edinburgh Members' Centre of the National Trust for Scotland
24 Oct 2024 - 19:30 Scotland beneath the surface Glasgow Drymen & District Local History Society
24 Oct 2024 - 19:30 Carrick's Gaelic 'otherworld' Alloway and ONLINE Ayrshire Archaeological & Natural History Society
28 Oct 2024 - 18:00 SLHF AGM via ZOOM SLHF
4 Nov 2024 - 19:30 The History of Shipbuilding on the Clyde Dalmuir Clydebank Local History Society
6 Nov 2024 - 19:30 The Deep History of the Local Landscape Stirling Loch Ard Local History Group
7 Nov 2024 - 14:30 "Sketching Scotland's Landscapes and Wildlife". Edinburgh Other: Edinburgh Members' Centre of the National Trust for Scotland
8 Nov 2024 - 15:00 Online seminar: The genetic signature of Dougall of Argyll & Lorne and his present-day, male-line descendants Online
11 Nov 2024 - 19:30 Line, Lamp and Snowdrops Crimean War 1853-56 Dalkeith Dalkeith History Society
13 Nov 2024 - 18:30 Counterfooting the Conjuring of a Ghaist: The Writings of the Wedderburns Dundee Abertay Historical Society
13 Nov 2024 - 19:30 An illustrated talk on St Kilda Gullane Gullane and Dirleton History Society
13 Nov 2024 - 19:30 Two Houses: Cumstoun and 45 Millburn St. Kirkcudbright Online Kirkcudbright History Society
14 Nov 2024 - 19:30 Unearthing Ancient Tweeddale on line and in person Ayrshire Archaeological & Natural History Society
15 Nov 2024 - 10:00 Estate, Household and Family Collections and their Use in Research Part 2 Perth
18 Nov 2024 - 19:30 The Servants in Traquair House - What the archives tell us about their life Edinburgh Scottish Genealogy Society
18 Nov 2024 - 19:30 A History of Whisky at Glengoyne Dalmuir Clydebank Local History Society
18 Nov 2024 - 19:30 Strathblane from the Air STRATHBLANE STRATHBLANE HERITAGE SOCIETY
28 Nov 2024 - 19:30 Imperial monarchy: James V's voyage to the Isles Glasgow Drymen & District Local History Society
28 Nov 2024 - 19:30 Scotland's earliest Human Arrivals Alloway and ONLINE Ayrshire Archaeological & Natural History Society
3 Dec 2024 - 17:00 SCA Annual Lecture: Professor Robert Bartlett - History in Flames Edinburgh Scottish Council On Archives
4 Dec 2024 - 19:30 A Short History of Bridge of Chon House and its natural history Stirling Loch Ard Local History Group
5 Dec 2024 - 19:30 Ballancrieff Castle - A Restoration Dirleton Gullane and Dirleton History Society
6 Dec 2024 - 19:30 Online seminar: The Bute Witchcraft Confessions – A Closer Look Online
9 Dec 2024 - 17:30 Beamish a living Museum - A photographic day Dalkeith Dalkeith History Society
9 Dec 2024 - 19:30 Members Evening: quiz, short talk, refreshments Dalmuir Clydebank Local History Society
10 Dec 2024 - 09:30 SCA Annual Conference 2024: BUILDING EVIDENCE Stirling Scottish Council On Archives
11 Dec 2024 - 18:30 140 years of Ye Amphibious Ancients Bathing Association Dundee Abertay Historical Society
8 Jan 2025 - 19:30 Archerfield House Gullane Gullane and Dirleton History Society
8 Jan 2025 - 19:30 The New Scottish Crannog Centre Stirling Loch Ard Local History Group
9 Jan 2025 - 19:30 Rewilding Scotland on line and in person Ayrshire Archaeological & Natural History Society
17 Jan 2025 - 14:30 Land, family and economic life in two nineteenth-century Tiree townships Online
23 Jan 2025 - 19:30 War and diplomacy on Rome's Northern frontier Glasgow Drymen & District Local History Society
5 Feb 2025 - 19:30 Every Contact Leaves a Trace Kinlochard Loch Ard Local History Group
10 Feb 2025 - 19:30 Gorebridge & Penicuik Heritage Regeneration Dalkeith Dalkeith History Society
17 Feb 2025 - 19:00 AGM and Talk: Scotland's Forgotten Canal Dalmuir Clydebank Local History Society
27 Feb 2025 - 19:30 Two eminent Scottish doctors Glasgow Drymen & District Local History Society
3 Mar 2025 - 19:30 How to Research your Family Tree Dalmuir Clydebank Local History Society
5 Mar 2025 - 19:30 Last Train to Aberfoyle Stirling Loch Ard Local History Group
10 Mar 2025 - 19:30 Early Railways of Dalkeith Dalkeith Dalkeith History Society
14 Mar 2025 - 19:30 Online seminar: A Search for Campbell Connections on Coll Online
27 Mar 2025 - 19:30 With Shackleton to South Georgia, Elephant island and the Antarctic Glasgow Drymen & District Local History Society
2 Apr 2025 - 19:30 The Early Burgh of Stirling Stirling Loch Ard Local History Group
14 Apr 2025 - 19:30 Scotland beneath the surface Dalkeith Dalkeith History Society
24 Apr 2025 - 19:00 Members Night & AGM Glasgow Drymen & District Local History Society
12 May 2025 - 19:30 AGM followed by The Real Anne Boleyn Dalkeith Dalkeith History Society
22 May 2025 - 10:00 Linlithgow Walk and Talk Linlithgow SLHF