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 | Popular Protest

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
30 Oct 2026 - 11:30 Glasgow Historical Walk Glasgow G1 3SL
30 Oct 2026 - 19:30 Lecture by George Hemstock - Forestry and Land Scotland: Lochar Mosses Peatland Restoration Presentation Dumfries Other: Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society
2 Nov 2026 - 19:30 "Into the Cauldron: Mary Queen of Scots story continued" Clydebank Clydebank Local History Society
2 Nov 2026 - 19:30 Rudolf Hess: The Day the Devil Visited Bearsden Bearsden Milngavie and Bearsden Historical Society
3 Nov 2026 - 18:00 Finding your Scottish Family: Argyll Archives and Beyond Online Other: Friends of Argyll Estates Archives
4 Nov 2026 - 19:00 Commonwealth War Grave Commission Stirling Loch Ard Local History Group
5 Nov 2026 - 09:00 Family History Course Edinburgh National Records of Scotland
6 Nov 2026 - 11:30 Glasgow Historical Walk Glasgow G1 3SL
8 Nov 2026 - 00:00 Ayr Choral Union: A Choral Legacy Ayr
9 Nov 2026 - 19:30 The First Modern War - Technology & Innovation Crimean War 1854-56 Dalkeith Dalkeith History Society
9 Nov 2026 - 19:30 The War Graves of Seafield Cemetery, Edinburgh Online Scottish Genealogy Society
10 Nov 2026 - 18:00 Finding your Scottish Family: Argyll Archives and Beyond Online Other: Friends of Argyll Estates Archives
11 Nov 2026 - 12:00 Free Alternative Histories Tours St Andrews St Andrews Other: University of St Andrews School of History
11 Nov 2026 - 19:30 The Development of the Galloway Hydro Power Scheme Kirkcudbright Online Kirkcudbright History Society
12 Nov 2026 - 09:00 Family History Course Edinburgh National Records of Scotland
12 Nov 2026 - 19:15 The Kirkoswald Smugglers' Ballad Ayr and ONLINE Ayrshire Archaeological & Natural History Society
13 Nov 2026 - 11:30 Glasgow Historical Walk Glasgow G1 3SL
13 Nov 2026 - 19:30 Lecture by Ian Jackson - The influence of geology and landscape of Northern England on prehistoric and Roman societies Dumfries Other: Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society
16 Nov 2026 - 19:30 "Building the Erskine Bridge" Clydebank Clydebank Local History Society
18 Nov 2026 - 19:00 'To do the sick no harm: and maybe even some good' Edinburgh - Hybrid Event Old Edinburgh Club
18 Nov 2026 - 19:30 Birdston, Capieston and Hole Farms and Farmers Kirkintilloch Kirkintilloch and District Society of Antiquaries
19 Nov 2026 - 09:00 Family History Course Edinburgh National Records of Scotland
20 Nov 2026 - 11:30 Glasgow Historical Walk Glasgow G1 3SL
25 Nov 2026 - 12:30 Spotlight: Victorian Exercise Edinburgh Other: Royal College of Physicians
26 Nov 2026 - 19:15 Curating Arctic Fever, Text, Illustration and Acquisition on line Ayrshire Archaeological & Natural History Society
26 Nov 2026 - 19:30 Drymen and Buchanan in old photographs Glasgow Drymen & District Local History Society
27 Nov 2026 - 11:30 Glasgow Historical Walk Glasgow G1 3SL
27 Nov 2026 - 19:30 Lecture by Alistair Alcock - William Craik of Arbigland (1703-1798) Living through turbulent times Dumfries Other: Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society
30 Nov 2026 - 19:30 Cupar Sugar Beet Factory Cupar Cupar Heritage Centre
2 Dec 2026 - 13:00 Community archives: opportunities and challenges Online Other: Centre for History, UHI
2 Dec 2026 - 19:00 Smith's Seat at Loch Ard Stirling Loch Ard Local History Group
3 Dec 2026 - 19:30 Campsie High Kirk: Past, Present and Future Kirkintilloch Kirkintilloch and District Society of Antiquaries
7 Dec 2026 - 19:30 King James VI up to 1603 Bearsden Milngavie and Bearsden Historical Society
9 Dec 2026 - 19:30 Lord Cockburn, Circuit Judge, Visits Kirkcudbright. Kirkcudbright Online Kirkcudbright History Society
14 Dec 2026 - 19:30 Christmas meeting: including talk: " Earl Loudoun's Regiment of Foote" Clydebank Clydebank Local History Society
14 Dec 2026 - 19:30 Powerful Prestongrange Dalkeith Dalkeith History Society
4 Jan 2027 - 19:30 Local History in Folk Song Bearsden Milngavie and Bearsden Historical Society
6 Jan 2027 - 19:00 Hunting Tom Buchan Stirling Loch Ard Local History Group
14 Jan 2027 - 19:00 Stories from the Riverside Museum Kirkintilloch Kirkintilloch and District Society of Antiquaries
14 Jan 2027 - 19:15 The Archaelogy of the Glasgow Garden Festival on line Ayrshire Archaeological & Natural History Society
18 Jan 2027 - 19:30 "One Hundred Years of a Clydebank Family" Clydebank Clydebank Local History Society
20 Jan 2027 - 19:00 Plague & Improvement, the Reality of Edinburgh New Town, talk by Tony Lewis Edinburgh Old Edinburgh Club
28 Jan 2027 - 19:15 PALaEoScot New Approaches to Scotland's oldest Archeology on line Ayrshire Archaeological & Natural History Society
28 Jan 2027 - 19:30 Target Clydeside: the Luftwaffe bombing of Clydeside Glasgow Drymen & District Local History Society
1 Feb 2027 - 19:30 "Smugglers on the Ayrshire Coast" Clydebank Clydebank Local History Society
1 Feb 2027 - 19:30 The Highland Clearances Bearsden Milngavie and Bearsden Historical Society
3 Feb 2027 - 19:00 The Dunmore Pineapple Stirling Loch Ard Local History Group
4 Feb 2027 - 19:30 Sannox Christian Centre Kirkintilloch Kirkintilloch and District Society of Antiquaries
8 Feb 2027 - 19:30 A Life in Housing Dalkeith Dalkeith History Society
11 Feb 2027 - 19:15 Scotland's First Warriors, Conflict and Violence from the Neolithic to Roman Period on line Ayrshire Archaeological & Natural History Society
15 Feb 2027 - 19:00 A.G.M. followed by talk: "Putting Women Back in the Story" Clydebank Clydebank Local History Society
17 Feb 2027 - 19:00 Charles Darwin in Edinburgh 1825-27, a lecture by Rosemary Mann Edinburgh Old Edinburgh Club
25 Feb 2027 - 19:15 Historicising Robert Burns Jamaica 1786 -1834 on line Ayrshire Archaeological & Natural History Society
25 Feb 2027 - 19:30 Early motor cars made in Scotland Glasgow Drymen & District Local History Society
1 Mar 2027 - 19:30 Talk: "The History of the Police Force in Glasgow" Clydebank Clydebank Local History Society
1 Mar 2027 - 19:30 Mugdock Castle Bearsden Milngavie and Bearsden Historical Society
3 Mar 2027 - 19:00 Fairlie's Secret War Stirling Loch Ard Local History Group
8 Mar 2027 - 19:30 The Battle of Pinkie 1547 Dalkeith Dalkeith History Society
11 Mar 2027 - 19:15 Burnswark Hill Ayr and ONLINE Ayrshire Archaeological & Natural History Society
15 Mar 2027 - 19:30 Talk: "Duntocher Mills" Clydebank Clydebank Local History Society
17 Mar 2027 - 19:00 "Their keepers": Thomas Guthrie, the Edinburgh Original Ragged School and changing ideas of child protection Edinburgh Old Edinburgh Club
25 Mar 2027 - 19:30 Educating Drymen weans: schooling in Drymen in the past Glasgow Drymen & District Local History Society
5 Apr 2027 - 19:30 North Glasgow Bearsden Milngavie and Bearsden Historical Society
7 Apr 2027 - 19:00 The History of Shipbuilding on the Clyde Stirling Loch Ard Local History Group
12 Apr 2027 - 19:00 Scotland's early Nurses and Midwives accused of Witchcraft 1563-1736 Dalkeith Dalkeith History Society
14 Apr 2027 - 19:00 Anti-Catholic rioting in Edinburgh in the 1680s, talk by Dr John R Young Edinburgh Old Edinburgh Club
22 Apr 2027 - 19:00 Millennium service on Inchcailloch Glasgow Drymen & District Local History Society
10 May 2027 - 19:30 AGM & Interesting Archaeological Conservation Works Dalkeith Dalkeith History Society
12 May 2027 - 19:00 Lost Glasgow Kirkintilloch Kirkintilloch and District Society of Antiquaries
26 May 2027 - 12:30 Spotlight: Forensic Evidence Edinburgh