Ayrshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 
List of previous Lectures and lecturers
(a work in progress)
Lectures and lecturers (pre 2020)
LECTURERS
Joint Lectures with KCCS
Civic Theatre
HILL, Peter The Early History of Whithorn: New Light on St.
Ninian and the Dark Ages 28 Oct 1993
PURSER, John Scotland’s Musical Past 27 Oct 1994
MORRIS, Christopher Tintagel Castle 7 Dec 1995
PURSER, John The Wee Apollo: How Burns brought Scottish Song
into the Temple of the Arts 24 Oct 1996
Buchan Lectures
Civic Theatre
BURL, Aubrey Megaliths on Arran: Maths, Myths and Mysteries 30 Oct 1991
Town Hall
WICKHAM-JONES, Caroline Peter and Water at the Heart of Neolithic Orkney 23 Nov 2017
Monthly Lectures, 1947 to Spring 1992, held in the
Carnegie Library, Ayr (CL) 1947 – March 1978
[Initially at 7 p.m. From the 1974-75 session lectures began at 7.30 p.m.]
Memorial Hall, Ayr Academy (7.30)(MH) 1978, 79, 80 – Jan 81
Loudoun Hall (LH) Feb/Mar 1981
Memorial Hall, Ayr Academy Oct 1981 – March 1992
( *Dec 1982, Loudoun Hall)
Fortnightly Lectures, 1992 to 2020:
Lectures began at 7.45 p.m.
Alternately between MH and CL Oct 1992 – March 1995
Alternately between CL and LH Oct 1995 – March 1996
Carnegie Library Oct 1996 – March 2012
Ayr Town Hall Oct 2012 – February 2020
[The 2019-2020 series was unfinished, due to the Covid-19 lockdown]
ADAMS, Ian The Agricultural Revolution: The Evidence of
Old Maps and Plans 11 Dec 1986
ADDYMAN, Peter From Jorvik to Largs: presenting the Viking past 23 Jan 2003
ADDYMAN, Tom Excavations at Dunure Castle 12 Feb 1998
Progress in the Work at the Kolkata Cemetery 14 Oct 2010
AITCHISON, Peter (with Andrew CASSELL)
The Lowland Clearances 9 Nov 2017
AITKEN, W.G. Hidden History 9 Feb 1967
ALCOCK, L. Cadbury Castle and the Legend of Camelot 12 Dec 1974
ALDRED, Cyril The Treasure of El Lahun 13 Mar 1958
Thebes of a Hundred Gates 9 Nov 1967
ALEXANDER, Derek Prehistoric Renfrewshire 27 Nov 1997
St Kilda 18 Oct 2012
ANDREW, Kenneth M. Scottish Ancient Monuments 9 Mar 1978
South-west Scotland from the Air 13 Jan 2000
APTED, Michael R. 17th Century Painted Ceilings 10 Dec 1959
ARABAOLAZA, Iraia A Roman Marching Camp in Ayr 10 Oct 2019
ARCHER-THOMPSON, Kirsty ‘A Delilah of his Imagination’: Sir Walter Scott’s
Abbotsford 13 Feb 2020
ARNOLD, Jim E. A Future for New Lanark 9 Jan 1986
ASHMORE, Patrick Prehistoric Ayrshire: From Icefield to Farmlands 9 Nov 2000
ATKINSON, R.J.A. Marine Life in the Clyde Area 9 Dec 1976
ATKINSON, R.J.C. Stonehenge in the light of recent Research 12 Dec 1957
BAILLIE, Warren Dunragit – the Prehistory of Galloway 27 Nov 2014
BANKS, Iain Prisoner of War Camps 23 Feb 2017
BANNATYNE, B.N. Peach English Parish Churches 12 Jan 1967
BARCLAY, Tom Yaxley Robson, Ayr’s Roundhead Provost 8 Feb 2001
The Cromwellian Citadel of Ayr 23 Oct 2008
BARNETT, Tertia Scotland’s Rock Art Project 29 Nov 2018
BARROW, Geoffrey W.S. The Highlands at the Turn of the 13th and 14th
Centuries 14 Nov 1963
Robert Bruce and Ayrshire 10 Oct 1974
The Making of Medieval Ayrshire 13 Feb 1992
BATEY, Colleen The Vikings in Lowland Scotland 28 Nov 2013
BEATTIE, William The National Library of Scotland 12 Nov 1959
BEGG, James Health, Wealth and Happiness 11 Mar 1999
BICKET, Andrew Investigating Coastal, Marine and Maritime Heri-
tage on the Outer Clyde: Recent Archaeo-
logical Discoveries from Hunterston Sands 8 Oct 2015
BLACKWELL, Alice Scotland’s Early Silver 10 Nov 2016
BONE, Hugh The Ayrshire Cow 10 Mar 1949
BORWICK, Linda Blair House, Dalry 13 Jan 2011
BOWIE, Karin Ayrshire and the Making of the Union, 1707 7 Feb 2013
BOYD, J. Morton The Grey Seal in North-west Scotland 15 Jan 1959
BOYLE, Andrew Tales of Ayrshire 10 Feb 1994, AA
BOYLE, David The Coronation Ceremonies 14 Jan 1954
BRADBURY, Susan Stained Glass in Ayrshire 27 Oct 2005
BRADLEY, Tricia Saving Birds and Biodiversity in South and West
Scotland 9 Oct 1997
BRASH, Ronald W. Ayr Tramways 12 Mar 1981
The Centenary of Ayr’s Tramways 8 Feb 2001
BREEZE, David Recent Work on the Antonine Wall and its
Hinterland 14 Nov 1974
The Antonine Wall: A World Heritage Site? 24 Jan 2008
BREMNER, Douglas Natural History – Sights and Sounds in Culzean
Country Park 10 Jan 1974
Wildlife Sound 9 Mar 1989
Life with the National Trust for Scotland 22 Feb 2007
BRENNAN, Janet Castles of Ayrshire 12 Nov 2015
BROPHY, Kenneth The Forteviot Excavations 25 Nov 2010
BROUN, Dauvit The Formation of Ayr as a Royal Burgh 800 Years
Ago 29 Sep 2005
BROWN, Jennifer M. Life and Politics in the late Middle Ages in South-
west Scotland 11 Nov 1976
BROWN, James Baltersan Castle 10 Nov 2005
BURGESS, Chris James was Robbed! The Battle of Flodden, 1513 29 Jan 2015
BURNETT, John The Eglinton Tournament and Sport for the
People 12 Jan 1995, AA
Glasgow Fair in Victorian Times 12 Oct 2000
BUTE, Marquis of History and Natural History of St Kilda 9 Oct 1947
BUTLER, Richard K. Who Cares for Local Industrial History? 10 Mar 1988
CAIRD, James B The Scottish Landscape 16 Jan 1964
CALDWELL, David H. Scottish Weapons 11 Jan 1990
The Kingdom of the Isles 15 Jan 2015
CALLAN, Mike Birdlife in a Changing Forest 8 Mar 1990
Forest, Ben and Glen: An Intimate Glimpse of
Scottish Wildlife 9 Mar 2000
CAMERON, Dugald One Hundred Years of Flying 22 Jan 1998
CAMPBELL, Anna Lead Mining at Carsphairn 18 Nov 1993, LH
CAMPBELL, Ewan Dunadd in Argyll: First Capital of the Scots 14 Dec 2006
CAMPBELL, Ian John Galt 11 Jan 1979
George Douglas Brown and the ‘real’ Ayrshire 12 Dec 1985
“Men Must, However, Eat”; The Relationship in
History-Based Interaction to Everyday Life
In its Characters 10 Mar 2005
The Rise and Fall of Small Town Tram Systems 27 Nov 2008
CAMPBELL, Roy H. The Iron Industry in Ayrshire 13 Feb 1964
Land Ownership in the South-west before 1914 9 Dec 1993, AA
A Century of Change 8 Oct 1998
CANT, Ronald G. Scottish Architecture as a Guide to Scottish History 19 Jan 1961
The Scottish Burgh 11 Oct 1973
CASSELL, Andrew (with Peter AITCHISON)
The Lowland Clearances 9 Nov 2017
CASTLE, Malcolm E. Birds and Bird-watching in Ayrshire 13 Mar 1975
Birds of St Kilda 11 Feb 1982
CATFORD, J.C. Scottish Dialects and the work of the Linguistic
Survey 10 Dec 1954
CATHCART, Alison Ayr and Plantation in Ireland, c.1550-1625 27 Feb 2020
CAVERS, Graeme The Black Loch of Myrton 14 Nov 2019
CLANCY, Thomas Place Names in Ayrshire 11 Nov 2010
CLARKE, John How the Past can be made to tell its Story 8 Feb 1951
CLOSE, Rob The Ayrshire Hearth Tax, 1693 23 Oct 1997
CONN, D.K. The Glory that was Greece 9 Dec 1971
COOK, J. Murray “… at the Citie of Mayboil …” 27 Jan 1994, LH
CORCORAN, John X.W.P. Megalithic Tombs of Western Britain: A New
View 11 Feb 1965
CORNFORTH, Ian Bats (Chiroptera) 10 Mar 2011
CORSAR, Peter Archaeological Sites and Monuments of South-
west Scotland 13 Nov 1986
COWAN, Edward Scottish History 8 Jan 2004
Emigration from South-west Scotland, with
reference to Canada 13 Oct 2011
Robert Bruce in Ayrshire and Galloway: the
Forgotten Civil War 14 Nov 2013
COWAN, Ian B. The Medieval Church in Ayrshire 9 Dec 1965
John Knox 9 Nov 1972
Religious Orders in Ayrshire in the late Middle
Ages 8 Dec 1977
COX, Adrian Excavations at Crossraguel Abbey 8 Mar 2012
CRAWFORD, Carol An Introduction to Woodland Bryophytes 9 Feb 2006
CRAWFORD, Iain The Vikings in Western Scotland: News and Views 10 Jan 1991
CROFTS, Sarah J. Celtic Churches: St Mungo and the Early Churches 26 Jan 2006
CRONE, Anne Buiston and the Crannogs of South-west Ayrshire 8 Nov 1990
CROSTHWAITE, J.H.S. The Golden Eagle 9 Nov 1950
Golden Eagle and other British Birds 9 Jan 1958
CRUDEN, Stewart H. Medieval Architecture 8 Dec 1949
The Ancient Monuments of Scotland 8 Oct 1964
The Ancient Monuments of Scotland from Pre-
Historic Times to the 18th Century 14 Oct 1971
CULLEN, Louis Smuggling and the Ayrshire Economic Boom of
the 1760s and 1770s 12 Mar 1992
CUMMINGS, Robert H. The Ancient Life and Climates of Ayrshire 10 Nov 1960
CUMMINS, Gerald Old Roads in Ayrshire 22 Oct 2009
DALGLEISH, Thomas W. The Post-War Forestry Programme 13 Oct 1949
DAVENPORT, Brian Scottish and Other Canals 14 Feb 1985
DAVENPORT, John The University Marine Biological Laboratory:
Past, Present and Future 10 Dec 1998
DAVIDSON, J.M. Development of Archaeology in Ayrshire 11 Dec 1947
DAVIDSON, Liz The Merchant City Initiative: Regenerating the
Historic Heart of Glasgow 9 Mar 2006
DELL, Richard F. Towards a Local Archives Service for Scotland 10 Dec 1970
DEVEREUX, David The Archaeology and History of Castle Douglas
and District 13 Dec 2001
DEVINE, Jim The Hunterian Collection: Presentation Past,
Present and Future 23 Jan 1997
DEVINE, Thomas M. The Tobacco Lords 14 Feb 1980
DICKSON, James H. Archaeological Investigation 12 Feb 2004
Ancient Glacier Bodies: Oetzi and Kwaday Dan
Ts;inchi 10 Feb 2005
DICKSON, Neil Brethren in Ayrshire: A Sect in Society 9 Dec 2004
DIXON, Nicholas Underwater Archaeology and the Crannogs of
Scotland 24 Jan 2002
DONALDSON, Gordon The ‘Norman Conquest’ of Scotland 8 Nov 1979
DOUGLAS, Hayley Tag’n’Track Lesser Black Back Gulls 24 Oct 2019
DOUGLAS, Hugh Bozzy and Burns: Two Ayrshire Men separated
by much Common Ground 28 Jan 1999
Jacobite Spy Wars: Moles, Rogues and Treachery 23 Nov 2000
DOVASTON, H.F. Plants and History 10 Feb 1955
DOVER, Kenneth J. Decoration and Representation in Greek Vase-
Painting 8 Nov 1973
DOWNS, Ian New Town Development: Forging Links with the
Past 11 Dec 1997
DUCKHAM, Baron F. Coal Mining and Technological Diffusion in the
18th Century 14 Feb 1974
DUNBAR, Francis B Archaeology and Architecture 12 Mar 1970
DUNBAR, John G. Travels in Turkey 11 Oct 1962
Scottish Castles 8 Dec 1983
DUNCAN, A.A.M. The Battle of Largs 12 Dec 1963
The Stone of Destiny and All That 8 Jan 1970
DUNLOP, Annie I. In the Footsteps of an Ayrshire Bishop 10 Nov 1949
EASSON, Rev. D.E. Mauchline – pre-Reformation 31 Mar 1955
EDWARDS, Nat The Darien Expedition 22 Nov 2012
EGGELING, W.J. Nature Conservation in Scotland 11 Feb 1960
Conservation, Amenity and Scenic Value 8 Oct 1970
ELMHIRST, Richard Work of the Scottish Marine Biological Station,
Millport 9 Dec 1948
EWART, Gordon Native to Norman Fortifications at Dundonald
and Portencross Castles 8 Dec 1988
EWING, Christine C. The Work of the Ayrshire Archives, with ref-
erence to Estate Papers 24 Nov 2011
FAIRHURST, Horace Iron Age Forts in Western Scotland 9 Feb 1956
Deserted Townships in the Highlands 10 Dec 1964
FAIRLEY, John A. Schooldays in Glasgow One Hundred Years Ago 13 Dec 1973
FENTON, Alex Cultivation and Settlement 9 Mar 1967
FERGUSON, Natasha Treasure Trove 13 Feb 2014
FERGUSON, Robert Who Cares for Our Heritage? 9 Jan 1992
The Silk Road 11 Mar 2010
FERGUSSON, Sir James Ayrshire in the Scottish Records 14 Oct 1955
The Housing of the Public Records 12 Oct 1967
FISHER, Ian Scottish Town Houses and Tolbooths 11 Dec 2003
FLEET, Charles (sic: Chris?) The Mapping of Ayrshire 12 Jan 2017
FLETCHER, H.R. The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh 21 Jan 1960
FORBES, – The Clearances in Sutherland 8 Jan 1976
FOSTER, Garth Beetles – Loved by Some 9 Feb 2006
FOSTER, Rev J. Ancient Stone Crosses 9 Oct 1958
FOSTER, Sally Listen to the Stones: Unleashing the storytelling
Potential of Scotland’s Carved Stones 28 Feb 2019
FRASER, W. Hamish What was new about Old Labour? Scotland’s
early Socialists 9 Oct 2003
What was new about Old Labour? Scotland’s
early Socialists 28 Nov 2002
FRASER, Shannon Seeing and Believing: Landscapes, Monuments
and the Human Body in Neolithic Arran 22 Oct 1998
Seeing and Believing: Landscapes, Monuments
and the Human Body in Neolithic Arran 14 Oct 1999
FREND, W.H.C. Carthage and Roman and Byzantine North Africa 14 Jan 1982
Carthage and Roman and Byzantine North Africa 14 Oct 1982
FULTON, James The Carrick Coast 14 Dec 1972
GALLIE, Elspeth M. Early Domestic Utensils 9 Oct 1952
GEORGE, Neville Environment of Early Man in Scotland 11 Jan 1951
GIBB, Avril (Lady Watson Stewart)
Australia Outback and Back Again 10 Nov 1988
GIBB, Ken Tourism Ephemera 26 Feb 2004
GIBBS, Maurice Weeds 13 Mar 1986
GIBSON, Mark Craigengillan Estate 12 Mar 2009
GILBERT, John Air Photographs and Some of their Uses 13 Mar 1952
GILLAM, John P. Roman Occupation of Scotland 10 Dec 1953
GOLD, G.F. Field Studies with Schools 14 Jan 1971
GOLIGHTLY, Roland D. Recollections of an Itinerant Digger 8 Mar 1979
Uncovering the Past: Two Pre-enclosure Land-
scapes in Ayrshire 23 Nov 1995, LH
GOODLAD, Jim Historical Geography of the Shetland Isles 8 Mar 2007
GOODWIN, A.K. Road Development in Ayrshire from 1750 to 1835 14 Mar 1974
GORDON, Alistair Early Christianity in Ayrshire and Galloway 8 Jan 1981
GOW, Ian Newhailes House, East Lothian: the recently
opened property of the NTS 9 Jan 2003
GOW, Neil James Boswell’s Ayrshire Connections 11 Feb 1993, AA
GRAHAM, Eric Robert Arthur of Irvine: 18th Century Merchant
Adventurer and Smuggler 9 Dec 1999
Clyde-built in the American Civil War 13 Nov 2008
Aspects of the Sugar Plantocracy 9 Feb 2012
GRAY, Helena A Viking Boat Burial at Ardnamurchan 12 Feb 2015
GRAY, James T. The History of the Kennedy Family 12 Feb 1976
GREEN, Simon Vernacular Building in Scotland 26 Jan 2017
GREIG, Rev James C.G. The Dead Sea Scrolls 14 Nov 1968
GREGSON, Jack Work of the Scotish Meteorological Office 10 Nov 1983
HAGGARTY, Eddie Strathclyde seen from the Police Helicopter 13 Mar 2003
Strathclyde seen from the Police Helicopter 25 Nov 2004
HALE, Alex Controversy on the Clyde 22 Nov 2007
HALL, Derek Monastic Landscapes 27 Jan 2011
HALLIDAY, Stratford (with Angela WARDELL)
Muirkirk: Industrial Dereliction or National Heri-
tage Site 11 Jan 1996, CL
HALSTEAD, Cyril A. Some Thoughts on the Place Names of South-west
Scotland 11 Nov 1971
HAMILTON, H. Life and Labour in Scotland (about 1740) 13 Jan 1949
HAMILTON, J.R.C. Shetland Islands in the Iron Age 12 Feb 1957
HANLON, Anna M. Travels in Tibet 14 Nov 1985
HANSON, W.S. The Roman Fort at Elginhaugh 8 Oct 1987
The Romans in Scotland 12 Nov 1998
The Magic of Aerial Archaeology 26 Nov 2015
HARPER, Marjory Adventurers and Exiles: Shapshots of Scottish
Emigration 25 Oct 2007
HARRISON, Jean Smail’s Printing Works, Innerleithen 26 Feb 2009
HARRISON, Stephen Viking Burial Practices in Britain and Ireland 28 Nov 2019
HART, John C. Archaeology for the Rising Generation: the
Young Archaeologists’ Club 23 Oct 1997
HAWKINS, Nigel The John Muir Trust 24 Nov 2005
HAY, John Kilwinning in the 18th Century 13 Mar 1969
HAYNES, Nick Building Scotland’s Canals 9 Feb 2017
HENDERSON, Lizanne Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland 13 Dec 2007
HENDERSON, S.M.K. The Clyde Valley – Its Geology and Scenery 13 Feb 1958
HENDRIE, J.H. Evolution of the Pistol 29 Mar 1956
HENDRY, T. Alastair. Archaeology and Ayrshire 15 Feb 1962
Gourock Burn Double Fort 11 Jan 1973
Alloway Before 1754 14 Feb 1991
Alloway Since 1754 12 Nov 1992, AA
Dundonald Castle 14 Mar 1996, CL
HENSHALL, Audrey S. Dagger Graves of the Early Bronze Age 14 Dec 1967
HILL, Peter Recent Excavations at Whithorn 11 Feb 1988
Progress with the Whithorn Excavations 9 Feb 1990
Whithorn and St Ninian: The Excavation of a
Monastic Town, 1984-1991 13 Nov 1997
HODSON, Yolande The Making of William Roy’s ‘Military Anti-
Quities of the Romans in North Britain’,
1793 14 Jan 1993, AA
HOGG, Angus Ayrshire Seabirds 14 Mar 1991
HOME, Henry D. The Birds of Scotland 9 Mar 1950
HUGHES-ONSLOW, Geoffrey H.
Wild Birds in Ayrshire Today 15 Jan 1948
Birds of Ayrshire 22 Mar 1962
HUME, John R. Ayrshire Mills 12 Dec 1968
Archaeology of the Scottish Cotton Industry 8 Feb 1979
Conservation and Historic Scotland 11 Nov 1993, AA
Victorian Churches in Ayrshire 8 Oct 2009
HUNTER, Fraser Romans in Scotland 10 Feb 2011
Celts: Art and Identity 24 Nov 2016
HUNTER, Jack The History of the Ballantrae Estate 8 Jan 2009
HUNTER, James The History and Archaeology of Dunure Castle 11 Mar 1976
The Role of Museums in Archaeology 10 Mar 1994, AA
HUNTER BLAIR, James Country Houses and Estates: can they survive? 26 Feb 1998
HUTCHISON, Isobel Wylie A Naturalist in the Aleutian Islands 12 Feb 1953
A Walk from Edinburgh to John o’ Groats 14 Nov 1957
A Stroll from Edinburgh to John o’ Groats 4 Dec 1958
Palestine Revisited 14 Dec 1961
A Stroll through the Dolomites from Innsbruck to
Venice 12 Nov 1964
HUTTON, Guthrie The Forth and Clyde Canal 28 Feb 2002
HUXLEY, Thomas Conservation in a Changing Countryside 13 Feb 1969
The Ecology of a Geriatric Collector: From Snails
to Aquatic Bugs 13 Mar 1997
HYDE, E. Scottish Mining Museum 10 Dec 1987
INGHAM, J.K. Very Ancient Ayrshire 8 Nov 1984
JAMIESON, Arthur How to Trace One’s Ancestry 18 Mar 1965
JAMIESON, Jane The Work of an Archivist 8 Mar 1984
JARDINE, W. Graham Ayrshire during the Ice Age, and after 10 Feb 1966
JARROT, Andrew Forestry in Ayrshire 10 Nov 2011
JONES, Alister Forestry in the Environment 10 Oct 1991
JONES, Rebecca Roman Camps in Scotland 16 Jan 2014
JONES, W. Gerald Scotland’s Redundant/Converted Churches 28 Jan 1993, LH
JOYCE, Ian Archaeology at Culzean 18 Feb 2016
Culzean Caves: Recent Excavations 24 Jan 2019
KAY, Stephen The Summerlee Story 9 Feb 1989
KEPPIE, Laurence The Antonine Wall 13 Nov 1980
Pompeii and Herculaneum 10 Oct 1985
KERR, A.J. Woodlands, Wildlife and Conservation 10 Jan 1978
KERR, William D. Historical and Social Notes on Saltcoats and
Stevenston at the end of the 18th Century 12 Feb 1948
The Auchenharvie Brotherhood 28 Mar 1957
KILPATRICK, Alan The Folly of Loch Doon 13 Nov 2014
KING, Elspeth Women’s Suffrage in Scotland 9 Nov 1995, CL
KIRKWOOD, Ralph C. Flora of the Ayrshire Coast 12 Feb 1970
Ayrshire Flora: Past and Present 12 Feb 1981
The Natural History of the Clyde Islands 14 Oct 2004
KNOX, Ronald A. Ancient Greek Cities 8 Jan 1987
KWASNIK, Elizabeth “Foreign” Cultures: Hit or Myth 11 Jan 2001
LAWSON, John Recent Archaeological Work in Edinburgh 10 Oct 2002
LEACH, Allan Slides of Old Ayr 13 Mar 1980
LOCKHART, Douglas G. Bazaars, Buildings and Benevolence, 1830s to
1930s 9 Jan 2020
LOGAN, Niall Duping the Germans 25 Oct 2018
LORIMER, Hew The Work of a Sculptor 8 Nov 1962
LORIMER, Patrick Works of Repair and Conservation of Alan
Stevenson’s Skerryvore Buildings at
Hynish, Isle of Tiree 25 Jan 2001
LOVE, Dane Scottish Kirkyards 13 Jan 1994, AA
The Covenanters 14 Feb 2002
The River Ayr Way 11 Jan 2007
LOWE, Christopher Recent Excavations on Inchmarnock, Bute 27 Jan 2005
LUCAS, Clive Colonial Architecture in Australia 9 Oct 1969
McBAIN, Janet Scottish Film Archive 13 Jan 1983
McBRIEN, Hugh Recent Developments in Historic Ayr 13 Oct 2005
MacCALLUM, Malcolm Museum of Flight, East Fortune 28 Oct 2004
McCORKINDALE, Neil The Solar System 11 Jan 1968
McCRINDLE, John The Gannet 11 Mar 1948
McCRORIE, Ian The MacBrayne Story – the Clyde Steamers 26 Nov 2009
MacDONALD, Catriona Dividends and Disputes: The Co-op and its Role
in Scottish Society 9 Nov 2006
What Makes a Scottish Hero? Literary Depict-
Ions of the 1st Marquis of Montrose 13 Mar 2014
MACDONALD, J.A.B. The Development of Forestry in South Scotland 11 Jan 1962
McGINTY, Walter “That Presbytery of Ayr!”: Burns and a Heresy
Trial 28 Nov 1996
McGREGOR, Bill Bus Transport in Ayrshire 22 Feb 1996, LH
McGREGOR, Martin In Search of Robert the Bruce 10 Jan 2019
MacINNES, Allan The Covenanting Movement between the Rest-
oration of 1660 and the Revolution of
- 25 Feb 2010
McKEAN, Charles Aspects of Architecture in Scotland 23 Feb 2012
MacKECHNIE, S.M. A Pattern of Western Islands 19 Mar 1964
MacKENZIE, Agnes Mure Scotland in Europe 10 Jan 1952
MacKENZIE, Archibald Some Landmarks of Auld Ayr 8 Jan 1953
Tombs of the Pharaohs 26 Mar 1959
McKENZIE, Ross Trade and Industry of Ayr, 1260/1560 10 Nov 1994, AA
MACKIE, Euan W. The Brochs and their Origin 11 Nov 1965
The Megaliths 9 Nov 1978
MACKINNON, Deirdre Fascinating Fungi 8 Feb 1996, CL
McLATCHIE, Tom Farm History 22 Oct 1992, LH
Loch Doon 26 Jan 1995, LH
McLEAN, A.C. Geology of Ayrshire 7 Mar 1957
McLEOD. Alexander G. Templelands of Ayrshire 14 Oct 1948
MACLEOD, Innes F. Witchcraft and Magic in 17th Century Galloway 12 Nov 1981
The Viking Islands – Bornholm, Oland and
Gotland 12 Nov 1987
Discovering Scotland: Early Travellers and
Antiquaries 12 Dec 1991
McQUEEN, John Language in Ayrshire from sub-Roman Times 9 Feb 1978
Place Names in South-west Scotland 11 Mar 2004
McSPORRAN, Bob Dunaskin Heritage Centre 14 Feb 2002
McSWEEN, Ann The Neolithic of Ayrshire in its Wider Context 11 Oct 2018
McSWEENEY, Katherine Giving Life to Old Bones; Reconstructing the
Past Through Human Skeletal Remains 26 Mar 2015
McWILLIAM, Colin E. The Historic Buildings Council and the National
Buildings Record (with David Watson) 14 Oct 1954
Architectural Adventures in Scotland 10 Jan 1985
McWILLIAM, Rev. J.M. Tombstones and Stones of Destiny 11 Nov 1954
MALDEN, John Medieval Plumbing at Paisley Abbey 14 Dec 1995, CL
“Bulls, Seals and Angels”: 700 Years of Paisley
Abbey 8 Jan 1998
MALDONADO, Adrian St Ninian and the Sea: New Work on Early
Christian Whithorn 26 Oct 2017
MARSHALL, Dorothy N. Field Work in Ayrshire 8 Oct 1953
Recent Excavations at Jericho 10 Mar 1960
The Walls of Jerusalem 10 Nov 1966
Aspects of Ethiopia 8 Feb 1973
The Story of an Excavation: Glenvoidean Neo-
lithic Burial Cairn 13 Nov 1975
MARSHALL, Jennifer From Hillside to High Rise: The Work of a Monu-
ment Warden 26 Nov 1992, LH
MARTIN, Colin J.M. La Trinidad Valencera – A Spanish Armada Wreck 8 Oct 1981
MARTIN, Peter Dr Samuel Johnston 21 Jan 2010
MASTERS, Lionel J. Rebuilding the Past: the Reconstruction of
Chambered Tombs 12 Jan 1984
The Pyramids of Egypt 11 Oct 1990
MAXWELL, Gordon S. Recent Aerial Surveys for Archaeology 10 Jan 1980
MAXWELL, Ian C. The Social Organisation of the Honey Bee 11 Dec 1975
MAXWELL, Stuart A Folk Museum for Scotland 13 Nov 1952
Scottish Jewellery 13 Jan 1955
MEIKLE, H.W. National Library of Scotland 12 Mar 1953
MEIKLEJOHN, M.F.M. Life and Landscape in Sardinia 8 Feb 1968
MILLER, Ellice The Way we Looked: Victoria’s Time and Beyond 24 Nov 1994, LH
MINTO, J.A. A Visit to the Last Shangri-La 9 Jan 1975
MITCHELL, Natalie Neolithic to Art Nouveau: Conservation Projects
at AOC Archaeology 11 Jan 2018
MOFFATT, Brian The Soutra Hospital Excavations 14 Dec 1989
MOORE, Geoff Aspects of Research at University Marine Bio-
logical Station, Millport 12 Feb 2009
MOORE, James M. P.S. Waverley and earlier Ayr Steamers 11 Mar 1982
MOREHOUSE, Emma Silk Weaving in South Lanarkshire 22 Nov 2001
MORRALL, Tom Ayrshire History seen through Coins and Tokens 9 Mar 1995, AA
A Unique Aspect of Burnsiana 22 Jan 2009
MORRELL, Margaret The History of Turnberry Airfield 12 Oct 2006
MORRIS, Christopher The Vikings in the Northern Isles 14 Nov 1991
MORRISON, Alex Recent Bronze Age Discoveries in Ayrshire 11 Dec 1969
Cist Burials and Food Vessels in South-west
Scotland 13 Jan 1977
The Stone Age in Ayrshire 13 Dec 1984
Recent Archaeological Work on St.Kilda 13 Feb 1997
MOSS, Michael Culzean 13 Nov 2003
MUNN, Charles Banking and the Economic Development of
South-west Scotland in the 18th Century 24 Oct 2002
MURRAY, Diana The Work of the RCAHMS 27 Oct 2011
MURRAY, Polly An Antarctic Adventure 27 Nov 2003
MYLNE, Christopher K. Bird Study on Remote Scottish Islands 10 Oct 1963
NEALE, Alan Gemstones of Scotland 13 Nov 1969
NICOLAISEN, W.F.H. Scottish Place Names 12 Feb 1959
O’DELL, A.C. Geography – the right hand of History 10 Jan 1957
O’DONOGHUE, Sarah Caterpillars in Costa Rica: Working in the Rain
Forest 13 Feb 2003
OGLETHORPE, Miles Losing our Mines: Remembering the Coal Industry 22 Feb 2001
Coal and Ice: Archaeology with Guns 23 Feb 2006
O’GRADY, Richard Zoos and Conservation 14 Jan 1988
Zoos and Conservation 12 Jan 1989
ORAM, Richard The Emergence of the Highland Clans 28 Oct 2010
The King under the Care Home: James I and the
Perth Charterhouse Project 8 Mar 2018
O’REILLY, Sean Keeping Good Biggings: the AHSS and Conser-
vation in Scotland 13 Jan 2005
ORMOND, Rupert Managing Underwater Resources: Coral Reefs
and the Clyde 25 Oct 2001
ORR, Joanne Curatorial Capers: The Highs and Lows of the
Museum World 26 Nov 1998
PAINTER, Gary Scottish Cinema Architecture 22 Oct 2015
PATERSON, J. Wilson Preservation of Ancient Monuments – The
Architect’s Problem 13 Nov 1958
PATON, Kevin Discovering the Prehistoric Settlements of Ayr:
Evidence from Recent Excavations 22 Feb 2018
PATTERSON, Edward M. The Rocks and Scenery of the Island of Arran 17 Jan 1963
PAXTON, Roland The Kilmarnock and Troon Railway, 1811-1846,
and its Significance 25 Nov 1999
“Bright Lands”: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Family
of Engineers 12 Dec 2002
Thomas Telford: ‘Colossus of Roads’ 13 Mar 2008
PELTENBURG, E.J. Balloch Hill and Pre-History of Kintyre 9 Feb 1984
PETRIE, Gordon Aerial Photography and Archaeology 9 Jan 1969
PHILLIPS, C.W. Work of the Archaeological Division of the
Ordnance Survey 12 Nov 1953
PICKIN, John Galloway in the Dark Ages 11 Nov 1999
PIGGOTT, Stuart Scottish Prehistory in Scotland 1 Feb 1951
POLLARD, Tony Bannockburn 14 Jan 2016
PRICE, Nigel Plant Collecting in China 14 Mar 2002
PROUDFOOT, Bruce Experiments in Archaeology 13 Oct 1988
PROUDFOOT, Edwina W.V. Recent Archaeological Work in Fife 13 Feb 1986
PRYDE, George S. The Burghs of Ayrshire 9 Feb 1950
Ayrshire Burghs since the Reformation 12 Jan 1956
QUYE, Anita Shining a Light on Scotland’s Textile Past 14 Mar 2019
RADFORD, C.A. Raleigh St Ninian and the Excavations at Whithorn 12 Mar 1959
RALSTON, Ian Hillforts in Scotland and beyond 27 Jan 2000
Hillforts in Scotland and beyond 26 Feb 2015
RATTENBURY, Denis Enlightment Edinburgh through a Beer Glass 23 Jan 2020
REES, Tom The Archaeology of Auchalton Meadows 8 Dec 2005
Three Iron Age Sites in Ayrshire 23 Oct 2014
Ardrossan Castle 8 Feb 2018
Recent Excavations around the Medieval Burgh of
Ayr 14 Feb 2019
REID, Alison Heritage and Countryside in South Lanarkshire:
The Natural Link 12 Mar 1998
REID, Donald L. Dr Henry Faulds of Beith: Pioneer of Finger-
printing 26 Oct 2006
REID, John H. Recent Excavations at Nimrud 10 Nov 1955
REID, Stephen J. King James VI 24 Jan 2013
REILLY, Valerie The History of the Paisley Shawl 9 Jan 1997
RICHARDSON, James S. Some Works of Medieval Craftsmen 8 Mar 1951
RICHMOND, I.A. A Roman Legionary Fortress on the Tay 31 Oct 1957
RIDDLE, Gordon Culzean: A Challenge for the Millennium 8 Mar 2001
The Cape Verde Islands: In search of Kestrels 11 Oct 2012
RITCHIE, Anna Homesteads of the Pictish and Viking Periods at
Buckquoy, Orkney 10 Feb 1972
Papa Westray: A Glimpse into Neolithic Times 9 Dec 1982
Papa Westray 5000 Years Ago: Excavations on a
Small Orcadian Island 10 Dec 1992, AA
RITCHIE, P.R. Recent Excavations at Whithorn 8 Dec 1966
Science in the Service of Archaeology 8 Jan 1976
[Not delivered – ill. See Forbes]
Science in the Service of Archaeology 14 Oct 1976
RIVET, A.L.F. Archaeology and the Ordnance Survey 16 Nov 1961
ROBERTSON, Alastair The Discovery of a lost Farming History at Dun-
canziemere, Cumnock 31 Oct 2013
ROBERTSON, Anne S. The Roman Wall in Scotland 12 Oct 1950
The Romans in South-west Scotland 15 Oct 1959
An Archaeologist at Large 13 Dec 1962
Roman Scotland – the New Evidence 10 Oct 1968
Excavation of the Roman Fort at Birrens 10 Feb 1977
ROBERTSON, Philip Marine Archaeology in Scotland 26 Jan 2012
Marine Archaeology 28 Feb 2013
ROBSON, J.E. Gardens of the National Trust for Scotland 11 Nov 1982
ROGERSON, R.W.K.C. Glasgow Historic Architecture, 19th and 20th
Century 10 Feb 1983
ROLFE, W.D.I. Muirkirk 430 Million Years Ago 12 Mar 1987
ROLLIE, Chris Robert Burns in England 21 Feb 2013
RONANKIEWICZ, Tanja The Archaeology (and a little bit of History) of
Burns Cottage 25 Feb 2016
ROSS, Anne Native Cults in Roman Britain 12 Oct 1961
ROSTEK, Charlotte Dumfries House 12 Nov 2009
ROWALLAN, Lord Tasmania 13 Oct 1966
ROY, A.E. The Astronomical Significance of the Tormore
Circles, Arran 12 Oct 1972
RUSSELL, George Life in the Sea 14 Jan 1965
RUSSELL, Tom An Eye for the Countryside 11 Mar 1993, AA
SANDERSON, Margaret H.B. Conserving our Written Heritage 9 Oct 1975
Robert Adam and Ayrshire 8 Oct 1992, AA
SAUNDERS, Jeff Crystal Ball Archaeology: Top Five Predictions
for Scotland’s Past 23 Mar 2017
SAVIO, Sister Dominic Scottish Medieval Monasteries 12 Nov 1970
SCOTT, J.A. Scottish Arms and Accoutrements 11 Oct 1951
SCOTT, John G. From Stone Age to Bronze Age in South-west
Scotland 14 Feb 1963
Excavation of a Dark Age Crannog at Loch
Glashan 10 Nov 1977
SCOTT, Tony Birds, Landscape and Culture in South India 7 Jan 2010
SCOTT-MARTIN, Andrew Dean Castle Country Park 28 Oct 1999
SHALLOO, Eoin The Word on the Street: Chapbooks and Broad-
sides in Scotland to 1990 12 Jan 2006
SHAW, James E. Famous Cases connected with Ayrshire and some
Distinguished Judges belonging to the
County 10 Feb 1949
SHERIDAN, Alison Who were Scotland’s First Farmers? 11 Nov 2004
Life in Prehistoric Ayrshire, 4000 – 2000 BC 28 Jan 2016
SHIELS, Jenny Treasure Trove in Scotland 25 Jan 2007
SHORT, John M. The Grammar of Heraldry 8 Dec 1955
The Eglinton Tournament 24 Mar 1960
SIMPSON, James Lady Cathcart’s House and others 13 Dec 1990
SIMPSON, W. Douglas Royal Castle of Dundonald 13 Nov 1947
SIMSON, Wallace Wild Life in Arctic Siberia 14 Dec 2000
SKINNER, Basil A Study of Painted Ceilings 13 Oct 1983
SLATER, Elizabeth A. Scientific Detection of Fakes 9 Oct 1980
SLAVEN, Anthony The Shipbuilders: Creating the Clydebuilt Legend
1711-1914 14 Nov 1996
SLESSOR, Alex Aspects of 18th Century Medicine 13 Jan 1966
SMALL, Alan The St Ninian’s Treasure 13 Dec 1979
SMART, Gill Nature Reserves of Ayrshire 25 Jan 2018
SMITH, David B. Curling. Scotland’s Ain Game 10 Dec 1981
SMITH, David L. The Railways of Ayrshire 13 Feb 1975
SMITH, Ewan 200 Years of the Hunterian Museum 9 Oct 2008
SMITH, J.A.B. Some Famous Cities, Ancient and Modern 13 Oct 1960
SMOLKA, Zoë Red Squirrel Conservation in South Scotland 24 Feb 2005
SPROTT, Gavin Auchindrain: A Farming Township 9 Nov 1989
Burns the Farmer 12 Dec 1996
STEELE, John The Secrets of HMS Dasher 10 Jan 2008
STEELE, Margaret The Covenanters and the Declaration of Sanquhar 11 Dec 1980
STEER, Kenneth A. Archaeology and Air Photography 11 Feb 1954
The Earliest Houses of Scotland 8 Dec 1960
STELL, Geoffrey Burghs and Buildings Before 1707 12 Feb 1987
Defences of the Clyde, 1914-1945 27 Feb 2014
STEVENSON, R.B.K.. National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland:
Past Present and Ideal 11 Nov 1948
STEWART, A.G. Bird Protection and Conservation 13 Jan 1972
STEWART, Gordon Dundonald Castle 24 Feb 2011
STEWART, Marion In Durance Vile: The Records of Crime and
Punishment in the 17th & 18th Centuries 12 Oct 1995, CL
Burns’ Neighbours in Dumfries: Authentic Voices 10 Oct 1996
STIRLING, William T. A Tour of some Covenanting Memorials in
South-west Scotland 8 Mar 1973
STONES, E.L.G. Sutton Hoo Ship Burial 14 Dec 1956
STRAWHORN, John Story of an Ayrshire Burgh 12 Feb 1948
SWANSON, Carol Eight Years of Developer-Funded Archaeological
Excavations in Ayrshire: What have we
Learned? 11 Oct 2001
TABRAHAM, Christopher J. Excavations at Threave Island, Kirkcudbrightshire 14 Dec 1978
TALBOT, E.J. The Archaeology of Early Castles 11 Feb 1971
Medieval Pottery 13 Oct 1977
TAYLOR, W.O.G. Colour in Plants 14 Mar 1985
THOMAS, Charles The Development of the Celtic Monastery in
Western Britain 9 Feb 1961
TILDESLEY, Jim Emotion versus Reason: the Establishment of
Scotland’s Maritime Museum 9 Feb 1995, AA
TOOLIS, Ronan The Excavation of Trusty’s Hill and the Discovery
of a lost Dark Age Kingdom in South-
west Scotland 10 Oct 2013
TURNER, Robin NTS Archaeology in the West and Beyond 25 Feb 1999
URQUHART, Robin History and Photography; The Good, the Bad and
the Sepiatone 26 Oct 1995, LH
WADDELL, Chris Robert Burns and Biodiversity 9 Oct 2014
WAINWRIGHT, F.T. The Picts in Angus 13 Dec 1951
WALKER, David Badgers and other Ayrshire Mammals 11 Oct 1979
WALSH, Joan Slate Quarrying in Scotland 23 Oct 2003
WALTON, John K. British Seaside Resorts: The 19th and 20th
Centuries 28 Feb 2008
WANLESS, Sarah The Gannets of Ailsa Craig 12 Oct 1978
WARD, Tam The Pre-history of Upper Clydesdale: recent Work
by Local Archaeologists 14 Jan 1999
Bastle Houses and Border Reivers 26 Oct 2000
WARDELL, Angela (with Stratford HALLIDAY)
Muirkirk: Industrial Dereliction or National Heri-
tage Site 11 Jan 1996, CL
WATERSTON, Charles D. The Meaning of Scenery 10 Mar 1955
The Meaning of Scenery 8 Mar 1956
WATERSTON, George Fair Isle and its Birds 4 Mar 1954
WATSON, David The Historic Buildings Council and the National
Buildings Record (w. Colin E. McWilliam) 14 Oct 1954
Little Houses of Scotland 27 Mar 1958
St Kilda and the Fair Isle (Film) 21 Mar 1963
WATSON, Fiona Taking Sides in the Wars of Independence 8 Nov 2012
WATT, Duncan Birds of Ayrshire 22 Jan 2004
WATT, Marie Teeth and Archaeology 27 Feb 2003
WATT, William J.C. Paisley Abbey 12 Jan 1950
WELLS, William The Burrell Collection 14 Oct 1965
WESTCOTT, Fred An Island Hopscotch: Archaeology and Wildlife
on some Scottish Islands 14 Nov 2002
WHATLEY, Christopher A. The History of the Ayrshire-Ireland Coal Trade 10 Mar 1977
Looking Beneath the Kilt: New Ways of Inter-
preting 18th Century Scottish History 8 Nov 2001
The Scots and the Union of 1707: a 300th
Anniversary Review of the Debate 11 Oct 2007
WHEATLEY, Ivison The World’s Longest Civilisation – Ancient Egypt 11 Oct 1984
WILBRAHAM, Kevin “Go and Sell all that thou hast, and give it to the
Poor”: the Relief of Poverty in Ayrshire
1283-1948 10 Jan 2002
WILKES, Margaret Ayrshire: The View from Charts, Maps and Plans 14 Oct 1993, AA
WILKINS, Frances David Dunlop & Co., the Loans Smugglers 24 Feb 2000
The Loans Smugglers – an Update 24 Mar 2016
The Loans Smugglers – an Update 27 Oct 2016
WILL, Bob Paisley Abbey 13 Oct 2016
WILLIS, Nigel Glasgow Necropolis 14 Feb 2008
WILLSHER, Betty Understanding Gravestones 12 Oct 1989
WINNING, Arrol L. Native Flora in the Present-day Garden 14 Dec 1950
WOOD, James L. Recording and Preserving Scotland’s Industrial
Heritage 9 Oct 1986
WOODWARD, Charles Local Studies and Museum Services: the Baird
Institute Model 8 Dec 1994, AA
The Greenock Cut: History and Restoration 23 Nov 2006
YEOMAN, Peter Rowallan Castle: From Mure Stronghold to
Renaissance Palace 8 Feb 2007
YOXON, Paul Otters and the work of the International Otter
Survival Fund 8 Nov 2007
ZONFRILLO, Bernard Wildlife Conservation on Ailsa Craig 30 Jan 2014
The Botany of Ailsa Craig 12 Oct 2017
t.b.c. Work of the National Trust for Scotland 11 Dec 1952
t.b.c. (Headland Archy) Uncovering Industry – the M74 Dig 11 Feb 2010
Sound Film Beginnings of History 22 Nov 1956
Photo Quiz (Mackenzie and Forsyth) 16 Mar 1961
Members’ Night R. W. Brash; T.A. Hendry; J. Strawhorn 10 Mar 1966
Members’ Night John E Buchan; T.A. Hendry; David Watson 14 Mar 1968
Members’ Slides – 13 Mar 1971
Members’ Evening – 25 Feb 1993, LH
Short Papers – 24 Feb 1994, LH
Short Papers – 23 Feb 1995, LH
Short Papers – 25 Jan 1996, LH
Short Papers – 27 Feb 1997
Short Papers – 11 Feb 1999
Short Papers – 10 Feb 2000
Films of Ayrshire – 15 Nov 2018
This information is taken from the annual syllabus issued to members. It is clear that on occasions there has been a change of programme. Where this is known, the list has been amended to reflect that.
Stuart MAXWELL, on 13 January 1955, was the first to address the Society twice; Isobel W HUTCHISON, on 14 December 1961, the first to speak three times. Hutchison, Dorothy N MARSHALL and Alastair HENDY have each addressed the Society five times.
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