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

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Start Date Title Location Member Organisation
20 Mar 2024 - 19:00 War and Diplomacy on Rome's Northern Frontier Gartmore Gartmore Heritage Society
21 Mar 2024 - 17:00 "It was a good life": Memories and Landscape in the Mining Communities of East Ayrshire Online National Records of Scotland
21 Mar 2024 - 19:30 The 1921 Census: How does it help us discover our past? Dirleton Gullane and Dirleton History Society
21 Mar 2024 - 19:30 TALK CANCELLED: SEE REPLACEMENT (SAME DATE) Falkland's Lady of Ostrabrama - an icon in the Palace's Royal Chapel Edinburgh Other: Edinburgh Members' Centre NTS Charity No. SC025732
21 Mar 2024 - 19:30 Rosslyn Chapel and Scottish Antiquaries in the Historic Environment Scotland Archives. Edinburgh Other: Edinburgh Members' Centre NTS Charity No. SC025732
26 Mar 2024 - 17:30 The Eighth Annual John Durkan Memorial Lecture: Emotion in Religious Controversy in Jacobean Scotland Glasgow Other: Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies, University of Glasgow
28 Mar 2024 - 19:30 Ben Lomond: history of the mountain and the surrounding area Drymen Drymen & District Local History Society
28 Mar 2024 - 19:30 Archaeology on the Rhins: recent work on the route of the Rhins Coastal Path Dumfries Other: Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society
3 Apr 2024 - 19:30 William Roy's Map and the 45 Rebellion. Kinlochard Loch Ard Local History Group
10 Apr 2024 - 18:30 From Deep Time to Our Time – The Work of the Cateran Ecomuseum Dundee Abertay Historical Society
15 Apr 2024 - 19:30 Captain John Orr and the History of the Scottish Naval and Military Academy Edinburgh Scottish Genealogy Society
8 May 2024 - 18:30 AGM & Egyptology in Dundee – its origins to the present day Dundee Abertay Historical Society
26 Jun 2024 - 18:00 150 years of women writing medicine Edinburgh