by Robin Thompson | 22 Apr 2021 | Video Lectures
This month’s featured YouTube video lecture is another presented by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. It was given in the National Museums Scotland Auditorium, on the 9th March 2020, just before lockdown, by Dr. Matt Knight. Dr Knight, who is Curator of...
by Robin Thompson | 4 Apr 2021 | Articles
by Dr Jean Barclay As our lives are being affected by a viral pandemic, it seems timely to look back to an outbreak of influenza in mid-18th Scotland and its description and treatment by Dr. John Stedman of Dunfermline. According to Dr. Stedman the outbreak was a...
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...
