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Abertay Historical Society: What's On

Forthcoming Events
2006-07

Unless otherwise stated, all events take place at Discovery Point at 6.30pm (refreshments available from 6pm)

EVENING LECTURES

Wednesday 13 September 2006
Scottish Archaeology Month
The need to communicate the past: The work of the Council for Scottish Archaeology
Stephen Carter, CSA

Wednesday 11 October 2006
Leapfrogging through time: the historical mapping of Tayside from the 17th to the 20th centuries
Chris Fleet, National Library of Scotland

Wednesday 8 November 2006
George Gilfillan and the Power of the Word: Interpreting Religion and Culture in Victorian Dundee
Aileen Black, Historian

Wednesday 13 December 2006
The Carnoustie Story: 500 years of the greatest links golf course in the world
Donald Ford, Scottish landscape photographer

Wednesday 7 February 2007
The Californian: A Dundee-built scapegoat in the Titanic Disaster? Debbie Meldrum, McManus Galleries & Museum

Wednesday 14 March 2007
"For Honour and Me": Killiecrankie, minor skirmish or crucial battle? Grant Carnegie, Military Historian

Wednesday 11 April 2007
Ninewells Revisited
Dr Graham Lowe, Tayside Medical History Museum & Alan Wightman, Architect

Wednesday 25 April 2007
Auld Kirk, Castle Street, Tayport - 6.30pm (refreshments from 6pm) Cynicus and his Tayport publishing company
Flora Davidson, Cynicus biographer

Wednesday 9 May 2007
AGM
Dundee and the Spanish Civil War
Mike Arnott, Dundee Trades Union Council

SPECIAL EVENTS

Saturday 28 October 2006
Tower Building, University of Dundee - 10am-1pm
A Good Lesson from Dundee: new perspectives on labour in Tayside. A conference organised in association with the Scottish Labour History Society

Saturday 11 November 2006
Meffan Institute, Forfar - 10am
Launch of Mary Verschuur's book A Noble & Potent Lady: Katherine Campbell, Countess of Crawford

Wednesday 14 February 2007
Tower Building, University of Dundee - 2pm
The Dundee Afternoon Lecture
The Scots and the Union of 1707: A View from 2007
Prof Chris Whatley, University of Dundee

Friday 23 March 2007
Fergusson Gallery, Perth - 7pm
Launch of a new edition of Ken Cameron's book The Schoolmaster Engineer:
Adam Anderson of Perth & St Andrews

Saturday 2 June 2007
University of Dundee, details to be confirmed
The Abertay Historical Society's Diamond Jubilee Conference

For further information please contact the Secretary

Read more details of previous programmes:

2001-02, 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06