by Robin Thompson | 25 Mar 2021 | Video Lectures
This month’s featured video is another short film from Dip In Video, whose three part film on the Picts we posted last October. In “The Power of the Land” Alan Short and Nigel Scott have produced a summary of the history of land ownership in Scotland...
by Robin Thompson | 14 Mar 2021 | Video Lectures
Burntisland Heritage Trust had, of course, had to cancel their usual summer exhibition last year. However, they have made a whole series of videos on local history, which are available, free, to all of us on their YouTube channel. The videos are: -− Burntisland Now...
by Robin Thompson | 25 Feb 2021 | Video Lectures
This month’s video talk was given by Professor Richard Rodger and was presented to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in the NMS Auditorium on 12 December 2016. He uses digital mapping techniques to present large amounts of historical data, such as census...
by Robin Thompson | 13 Feb 2021 | Articles
by Robin Thompson | 20 Jan 2021 | Video Lectures
Who Were the Jacobites and what did they want for Scotland? This month’s video lecture was presented in May 2018, in Dundee, and was organised jointly by the Centre for Scottish Studies and History Scotland. In it, two speakers propose differing views of the...