Lecture Programme for Session 2015 - 2016

The lecture programme for Session 2015 - 2016 has just been finalised by Graham Boyd.  As always, Graham has put a lot of effort into arranging a really varied and interesting series of talks
All the lectures will take place in the Lecture Theatre of Ayrshire College (Kilmarnock Campus) in Holehouse Road, Kilmarnock, starting at 7.30pm.
The membership fee for this session has been held at £15.  Excellent value for 12 lectures.
Come along and enjoy.

Kilmarnock & District History Group Syllabus 2015 / 16

2015

6 October                    Robin Wood               ‘Burns and Ingersol’

20 October                  Cate Devine                ‘Culinary Memories’

3 November                Andrea Thomson        ‘The History of Working Class

Marriage’

17 November              John Moore                 ‘History of the Maps of Glasgow’

1 December                 Donald Lees Reid       ‘The Last Mines of the Doon Valley’                        

15 December               Tom Barclay                “It is a terrible place”.  Ayrshire 

                                                                         Experiences of Gallipoli’                  

2016

5 January                     Bill Fitzpatrick            ‘The Battle of The Somme’

19 January                   Robin Nelson              ‘The Quintinshill Rail Disaster’

2 February                   Alexander Hall            ‘The Victoria Cross’   

16 February                 Valerie Reilly             ‘Coats & Clarks – The Binding Thread

of Paisley’s History’

1 March                       John Stevenson           ‘Old Ayrshire Farming’

                                                         

15 March                     Forbes Gibb                ‘History of Brewing in Scotland’

 

Lecture Programme for 2013 - 2014

Kilmarnock & District History Group Syllabus 2013 / 14

2013

1   October                   Dr June Neilson       Romano – Celtic Religious Deities of                      

                                                                         Northern Britain

15 October                  Jim O’ Neil                  The Fenwick Weavers

29 October                  Barbara Graham          Spies of the Elizabethan Era

12 November             Caroline Wilkinson     Depicting the Dead – Joint meeting

                                                                                    with  KESS

26 November              Dane Love                  The Covenanters and Ayrshire          

10 December               Tom Barclay                “1263 and all that” – The War with

                                                                        Norway and the Battle of Largs

2014

7 January                     Allan Richardson        Beith Furniture

21 January                   John Burnett               Robert Burns – John Wilson and The

                                                                        “ Kilmarnock Edition”

 4 February                  Frank Donnelly           Sir Alexander Fleming           

18 February                 Tony Mulholland       Lewis Fry Richardson – Joint meeting

                                                                                    with KESS

4 March                       Jim Boyle                    The History of The Royal College     

                                                         

18 March                     Members Open            AGM  Plus

Evening                       Kilmarnock in the 1960s and ‘70s