This year being the Year of Natural Scotland, this annual event (formerly known as the Man and the Landscape Symposium) will concentrate on wildllife issues.
This will not mean that history is overlooked, however, as the emphasis is on how our local environment and wildlife has changed over the last 40 years or so and on how that is reflected in the pages of Forth Naturalist and Historian.  So, with a range from fish to birds, from raptors to mammals, and with general overviews as well, there will be plenty to ponder.

As usual the event will he held at Stirling University and you can get further details and the booking form here.

This looks like a rather specialised event but, with some well-known speakers and being held at the University of Stirling on 9th to 11th July, might be of interest to some local people; You can book 'per day' too; the programme and booking form are here or you can get further information at www.plantationsamidstsavagery.wordpress.com

With the lead-up to Bannockburn well under way, there is going to be a good deal on this topic. This looks like being a wide-ranging event with a broad perspective - and is FREE if you register soon for your tea and coffee!


New perspectives on the Scottish Wars of Independence: Scotland and the governance of England in the thirteenth century.



Free day conference as part of the AHRC-funded project, 'The Breaking of Britain: cross-border sociaety and Scttish independence 1216-1314'.



Friday 23 August

(Senate Room, Univ. of Glasgow)



9.10 Registration

9.30 Preliminaries



Part I: Government and People in Scotland and Northern England

9.45–11.15

Beth Hartland, ‘The People of Northern England: Cumberland, Westmorland and Northumberland, 1216–1286’.

David Carpenter, ‘The King’s Government in Northern England in the thirteenth century’.

Matthew Hammond, ‘North of the Forth in the Ragman Roll’.



11.30–12.30

Richard Cassidy, ‘Sheriffs, kings and rebels in Cumberland and Northumberland’.

Keith Stringer, ‘Scottish Royal Lordship in the Thirteenth-Century English Borders’.



Part II: English politics in Scotland

13.45–3.15

John Reuben Davies, ‘England in the Chronicle of Melrose’.

Fergus Oakes, ‘Alexander III and the Barons’ Wars’.

Sophie Ambler, ‘The Montfortian revolution and Scottish political thought’.



Part III: Law and the construction of Scottish independence

3.45–4.45:

Alice Taylor, ‘Robert I’s legal reforms, 1318’

Sarah Tebbit, ‘The legal context of the formulation of nationhood in early fourteenth-century Scottish texts’



4.45–5.15: Summing up (Dauvit Broun)



Please register on-line at http://newperspectives.eventbrite.co.uk/ by 16 August if you wish to have free teas/coffees and lunch, and to guarantee your place.