The Strathmartine Centre hosts a series of morning seminars, held monthly on Wednesday mornings between September and June, at which invited speakers give informal presentations on a wide range of historical topics, and at which tea and coffee are served.
Seminars are listed in the Events section of the website and on the Home page.
Members of the Strathmartine Centre are invited to the seminars; others are welcome to attend, but are encouraged to contact the office in advance, since space is limited.
Unless noted, all seminars take place at the Strathmartine Centre and all will be available online, with links shared in advance of each talk.
The seminars begin at 11.00am. Tea and coffee available from 10.30am.
FORTHCOMING SEMINARS
2026
2 September. Máel Coluim ‘the Great’ and Scotland’s Birth Certificate. James Bruce
7 October. From Macon to Melrose: William and Ellen Craft’s Anti-Slavery Tour of Scotland, January-February 1851. Iain Whyte
4 November. Life, Liberty, Property and Religion: Liberal Jacobite Philosophy in the Atlantic World. Michael Ray Taylor. NB. Presented remotely, but live screened at the Strathmartine Centre
2 December. John Elphinstone’s Edinburgh Prints: Not as ‘Miserable’ as They Have Been Described. John Moore
2027
3 February. John Roule: The Last Prior of Pittenweem (1525-1552). Anthony Lodge
3 March. Harvie’s Dyke: The People, their Liberty and the Clyde. Christopher Whatley
7 April. The Orcades in the Medieval Mind: How the islands at the edge of the Earth became a central feature of medieval zonal world maps. Oisin Plumb
5 May. Health and Wellbeing in Dundee: Nutrition and Natural Therapies in the Late Nineteenth Century. Victoria McIntyre
2 June. Mary Godwin or Shelley in Newburgh: Research, process and post-production – a work in progress. Jeanette Sendler and Helen Welsh