The Society's annual Summer Outing will be to Abbotsford, Sir Walter Scott's house near Melrose. As always, the outing will be on the first Saturday in June, which in 2014 is 1st June. The coach will leave Sainsbury's car park at 9.30 am and head for Selkirk with a short break at Dobbies, Dalkeith which is also the home to Butterfly World. There will be sufficient time in Selkirk for having lunch (bring your own or buy locally) and looking around before reaching Abbotsford at 2.00 pm for a guided tour of the house. Afterwards, the party will eat at The Green Tree Hotel, Peebles at 5.15 pm.
Annual General Meeting: Friday 11th April 2014
The Annual General Meeting is the opportunity for all members to have their say in the running of the Society. The agenda may be downloaded by clicking here, but other items can be raised under AOCB .
David McVey: 'Sir Walter Scott': Friday 14th March 2014
2014 marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley, a novel that transformed the way history could be analysed in fiction. Scott was fascinated by history and has also made his mark on posterity in a variety of surprising ways.
David Forsyth: 'Common Cause: Commonwealth Scots in the era of the Great War': 4th March 2014
David Forsyth of the National Museums of Scotland will give a talk entitled 'Common Cause: Commonwealth Scots in the Era of the Great War' as the Society's contribution to Local History Week (1-8 March 2014). The meeting will be held in the Barony Chambers, Kirkintilloch beside the Auld Kirk Museum on Tuesday 4th March, 2.30pm-4pm.
Members' Night: 'My favourite sporting memory': 28th February 2014
To celebrate the 2014 Commonwealth Games, this year's Members' Night topic is 'My favourite sporting memory'. Contributors do not need to have any sporting prowess and the memory can be of any form - participation, spectating, winning, losing etc. Anyone who wishes to take part, please contact the Society via the Contact Us page.
David Graham: 'Gruinard Island': 14th February 2014
The speaker will be David Graham
who will be deputising for David Hamilton, a retired surgeon, with whom he
shared laboratory-based training in the mid-1960s at the Western Infirmary
Glasgow. Since retirement, David Hamilton has become a renowned authority on
aspects of the History of Medicine in Scotland, one of which is the story of
Scotland's Poisoned Island.
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