SLHF will be hosting a conference on Popular Protest in a Scottish Local History Context on Saturday, 25 October 2025 at The Wynd Centre, School Wynd, Paisley PA1 2DB.

Speakers include:

Dr David Smale - The Radical War of 1820: Police Spies, Government Spies and Willing Informers

Tom Dowds - The Trials of the Paisley Radicals in 1820

Prof Christopher Whatley - Harvie's Dyke, Glasgow: People, Protest and Place

Dr Phil Back - “There’s going to be an outrage and we’re going to start it!” Protesting the M77 at Pollok in the 1990s

Dr Juliette Desportes - Landscapes of Protest: Rural Resistance in the Highlands and Islands, 1750-1820

Prof Iain Robertson - The Later Highland Land Wars and the Micro-geographies of Protest

WE ARE NO LONGER TAKING BOOKINGS FOR THE CONFERENCE AS WE NEED TO ADVISE THE CATERER'S OF NUMBERS. HOWEVER, YOU ARE WELCOME TO TURN UP ON THE DAY AND ATTEND (WITHOUT LUNCH).

Booking