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Conference - Mountains of Central Scotland - 14th Nov 2015

16/10/2015

The annual Forth Naturalist and Historian conference is always a good date to put in the diary. This year's event, at Stirling University, as usual, is on Saturday 14th Nov on the theme 'Mountains of Central Scotland'.
The topic lends itself to a diversity of approaches and the seven speakers will cover topics including:
      Landscape change
     Montane mammals
     Whinchats
     Montane Botany
     Archaeology of Ben Lawers
     Mountains and People

You can get fuller details, a booking form, parking and lunch arrangements etc on the PDF which you can download here.

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Free Lecture Series at Smith Art Gallery and Museum

12/10/2015

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28 October-16 December 2015: Landscape Encounters public lecture series at Smith Museum and Art Gallery.
Staff from the Centre for Environmental History and Policy at Stirling University will be delivering a second series of Landscape Encounters: Exploring Environmental and Heritage Histories of Scotland at the Smith Museum and Art Gallery - see Landscape Encounters poster. The five free public lectures are designed to showcase current and past research to a wider audience.
See the Poster here for times and details

28 October: Glen Almond: Landscape palimpsest (Richard Oram)
4 November: Bannockburn 1314: What did the place look like? (Richard Tipping)
25 November: Medieval climate change in Scotland: 1250-1350 (Alasdair Ross)
9 December: An illicit whisky chaser: Rediscovering the hidden history of whisky production in 18th and 19th century Scotland (Clare Wilson)
16 December: Picts, Scots and Gaels: What’s new? (Sally Foster)

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First Meeting on Thursday 29th Oct at 7.30pm

10/10/2015

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Yes, it's that time of year again, folks!

The first meeting will be on 29th October, back in the Smith Art Gallery and Museum this year.

The speaker is from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Regimental Trust and will be speaking on "The 7th Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders During World War I".

It's free for members, of course and just £2.50 for visitors.

Further details on the flyer.

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Film Event at Macrobert Centre on 13th October

7/10/2015

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This event - you need to book a seat at the MacRobert - looks interesting. It will show films made in and about Scots towns (including Stirling) in the past.

You can find more details here.

Shona Thomson writes;

Made in My Toun is part of Britain on Film, a major project from the BFI National Archive, Regional and National Archives and rights holders from across the UK that reveals new and unseen stories of our lives through the history of film. As part of a major programme of digitisation, which started in 2012 and continues until the end of 2017, Britain on Film offers ways to discover, explore and engage with the newly digitised films: www.bfi.org.uk/britain-on-film.

For the Stirling event, I'll be screening four films including one called 'The Heart of Scotland' which is specific to Stirling and its environs being commissioned by the County Council of the County of Stirling in 1965. After the screening, there will be an informal panel/audience discussion chaired by me. Filmmaker Eddie McConnell will also be on the panel as the cinematographer of The Heart of Scotland. Eddie is described by his peers as 'one of the finest documentary cameramen in the world'. From his early films as an amateur, mentored by John Grierson, then into the production industry, Eddie's work across 50 years represents the best of documentary filmmaking in Scotland. As the director of a large number of films sponsored by I've asked Eddie along to talk about the motivations of the sponsors and how he and the crew interpreted these to produce the film representations of the city.

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Conference - Mountains of Central Scotland - 14th Nov 2015

Free Lecture Series at Smith Art Gallery and Museum

First Meeting on Thursday 29th Oct at 7.30pm

Film Event at Macrobert Centre on 13th October

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