We are very excited to introduce our Spring 2025 series of talks. Once again we have a fantastic line up of speakers who have kindly agreed to support our Community Library in this way. Talk 1 - 3 April - Lesley Glaister, novelist - Writing the War Lesley Glaister is a novelist, poet, playwright, and teacher of creative writing –…
We are very excited to introduce our Spring 2025 series of talks. Once again we have a fantastic line up of speakers who have kindly agreed to support our Community Library in this way. Talk 2 - 24 April - Andrew Whitley - Cereal Offender: stories from the struggle against ultra-processed food Andrew Whitley, author of Bread Matters, early leader…
We are very excited to introduce our Spring 2025 series of talks. Once again we have a fantastic line up of speakers who have kindly agreed to support our Community Library in this way. Talk 3 - 8 May - Peter Yeoman - Sick Picts at the May Monastery: evidence for healing, death and burial at the early medieval monastery…
We are very excited to introduce our Spring 2025 series of talks. Once again we have a fantastic line up of speakers who have kindly agreed to support our Community Library in this way. Talk 4 - 22 May - Philip Long - The work of the National Trust for Scotland Philip Long took over as Chief Executive of the…
We are very excited to introduce our Spring 2025 series of talks. Once again we have a fantastic line up of speakers who have kindly agreed to support our Community Library in this way. The line up is: Talk 1 - 3 April - Lesley Glaister, novelist - Writing the War Talk 2 - 24 April - Andrew Whitley, baker,…
Andrew Pettegree’s latest book explores the many roles books play in wartime. We mourn their destruction and turn to them for comfort during dark days, but in the total wars of the last century books also became essential weapons in the conflict.
Richard will talk about the boatbuilders of the East Neuk and the contribution they made to fishing communities across Scotland and beyond.
Kathleen Jamie is an award-winning writer whose work is rooted in the landscape and culture of Scotland. Her subjects include nature, travel and archaeology. In 2021 she became Scotland’s ‘Makar’, or National Poet.
Professor O’Brien is an American historian whose work focuses on conflict, politics, war and strategy. His analysis of the Russo-Ukraine War is published regularly in major international newspapers and journals.
What did Scottish Geographers have to do with the border between Lithuania and Latvia, exploration in Africa, and the rights of women in London? Jo Sharp will talk about the history of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, Scotland’s Geographers Royal, and why the study of Geography is still so important to Scotland in the 21st century.