Programme

Winter Lecture Programme 2025 – 26

UPDATE:
The talk on Thursday 13^th November about Kilmartin will now be online only. >>
Please note that due to circumstances this meeting was only on Zoom.
We apologise to those who wished to meet in person at Craigie, and to those online who encountered technical issues on the night. We hope to make a recording available here .

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The 2025-26 programme is now announced, and we look forward to seeing many of you attend in person, at our new venue in the Ayr campus of the University of the West of Scotland, or online virtually via Zoom. Details emailed out nearer the event date to members and corresponding societies.
We restart on Thursday 9th October, at 7:15pm, and hope to see you there.

Please check our Facebook page nearer the time in case of alterations or additions.
NB. New start time is 7:15pm.

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Winter Lecture Programme 2024 – 25

NB. The Thursday 13th March 2025 talk changed, and we are pleased to announce that Faith Hillier updated us about the Galloway and South Ayrshire UNESCO Biosphere.
We hope that Lauren Welsh”s talk on Prehistoric Ayrshire can be rescheduled for next season.

There was also a bonus talk on the 27th March, with James Brown, talking about Killochan and Kirkmichael: two fine Ayrshire houses.

Our new venue for 2024-25 meetings was in the Robertson Room at the Burns Heritage Museum, Alloway and we’d like to thank them for their hospitality.

All welcome, and FREE to attend, but we’ll encourage you to support our Society by joining.
Talks were also on Zoom at the same time (technicalities permitting), with links emailed to members.

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Winter Lecture Programme – 2023 – 24

There were the following changes to the Lecture Programme:

The talk on 25th January was in-person, in Ayr.
As we had to cancel all talks originally planned for February, there were two additional talks: in April, rescheduled from earlier:
11th April with Lachlan Munro, via Zoom, talking about Robert Bontine Cunningham Graham.
25th April with Kenny Brophy, at Ayr Town Hall, talking about the Drumadoon Cursus and Neolithic Arran.

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The 2022-23 lecture programme is still listed below, to highlight the range we were fortunate enough to have last year..

Winter Lecture Programme – 2022 – 23

Update:
The talk, Culduthel – an Iron Age craftworking centre in North East Scotland,
by Dr Candy Hatherley of Headland Archaeology, was given on Thursday 23 March 2023,
having had to be postponed from Thursday 10th November 2022.

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