2024-25 Programme

All evening meetings are held at 7.30 pm in The Park Centre, 45 Kerr Street, Kirkintilloch, G66 1LF. Please see below for a map showing the location of the venue.

Thursday 3 October 2024: Brian Young – ‘The Roman campaigns in Scotland’

Thursday 7 November 2024: Louise Nixon – ‘The RNLI: 200 years of saving lives at sea’

Wednesday 20 November 2024, 2pm: KDSA Research Group - 'Significant personalities in the history of Kirkintilloch and District'

Thursday 5 December 2024: Elaine Morrison and Carol Parry – ‘The Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service - the Girton & Newnham Unit - 1915-1918’

Thursday 9 January 2025: Hugh Gaffeny – ‘The Auchengeich mining disaster’

Thursday 6 February 2025: Alastair Dinsmor MBE – ‘The history of the City of Glasgow Police’

Thursday 20 February 2025: Members’ Night – ‘A precious thing’

Thursday 6 March 2025: Don Martin MBE – ‘Symington and the Charlotte Dundas’

Wednesday 19th March 2025, 2pm: Alexander Thomson Society - 'Alexander "Greek" Thomson'; the Society's contribution to East Dunbartonshire's Local History Month

Thursday 24 April 2025 Annual General Meeting and David Forsyth  – ‘Confessions of a tour guide’

Annual membership subscription is £10. 

An archive of previous years' programmes can be found here