Events
Palaeography Group Online Workshop
Next online meeting is Monday 11th December 2023
We will continue with the documents that Murdo referred to in his recent talk, and you can find three images via this link:
The link is valid for 7 days so please download and save the images on your computer before the link fails.
You don’t need to prepare for the session but you have the images in case you want to get your eye in advance!
We will read through them together, noting the various letter forms and language and trying to make sense of them.
Everyone who wishes to attend needs to book a place for the sessions by emailing: friendsoftheargyllpapers@gmail.com
Alison
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Seminar series 2023/24
The Friends of the Argyll Papers are delighted to introduce a series of online seminars informed by research undertaken in the archive, to take place on Zoom. All seminars are scheduled for a Friday, at various start times to allow Friends around the world to participate.
| Fri 8 Dec | 19:30 | Dr Sheila Dickson Rudolf Erich Raspe’s Marvellous Travels in Scotland: A survey in 1789 of the Duke of Argyll’s mineral resources by the geologist and author of ‘Baron Munchhausen’s Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia’ | |
| Fri 19 Jan | 14:30 | Kate Ferrier | |
| Susan Ferrier and the Literary Circles of Inveraray | |||
| Fri 16 Feb | 19:30 | Duncan Beaton Campbell Pedigrees: the good, the useful and the totally unreliable | |
| Fri 15 Mar | 14:30 | Donald Meek Part IV: Gunfire in Oban: Malcolm McLaurin’s Later Years | |
| Fri 19 Apr | 19:30 | Bob Chambers West Side Story – Snippets of Tiree’s Crofting History | |
| Fri 17 May | 14:30 | Sìm Innes Raghnall agus Cairistìona: Industrial Action and a Sex Strike at Inveraray in the 1790s | |
| Fri 14 Jun | 14:30 | Bob Reid Was the Marquess of Argyll guilty of treason during the Cromwell occupation of Scotland? Was the Marquess of Argyll guilty of treason during the Cromwell occupation of Scotland? Was the Marquess of Argyll guilty of treason during the Cromwellian occupation of Scotland? | |
Seminars will be delivered on the Zoom platform and will include a 45 minute presentation followed by 15 mins for Q & A.
Attendance at the Sessions is free for Friends. Non-members are welcome to attend and are invited to donate £5 per seminar to the Friends at Donate to Friends of the Argyll Papers (enthuse.com) before emailing to book a place.
Everyone who wishes to attend needs to book a place for the sessions by emailing: friendsoftheargyllpapers@gmail.com
For information on past seminars, please visit the Cache Page 27