Glasgow & West of Scotland Branch Programme 2024-25

All meetings are held at 11am on the second Saturday of the month at Kelvinside Hillhead Parish Church Observatory Road, Glasgow West End G12 9AR.

For any branch enquiries please telephone Marie Davidson on 0141 956 1172

 

12 October 2024

Emile L' Angelier, Madeline Smiths lover

Prof Stephen Bowd, University of Edinburgh

Prof Bowd will speak about his new research into the murder case that has always fascinated Glasgow. We have had earlier talks on different aspects of the case.

 

19 November 2024

The Political Background to D. Day

Graeme Bowman, author and historian

 

14 December 2024

Medical Advances arising from WW1

Tom Scotland

 

11 January 2025 (exact arrangements TBC)

The Clydebank and Glasgow Blitz

Following our Mowforth talk we found that many were more interested in Mrs Mowforth’s experience living in Sheffield and driving an ambulance during the blitz, after the talk we hope to collect our members memories of the blitz for future reference.

Marc Conaghan, Researcher

 

8 February 2025 (exact arrangements TBC)

Ali Getty will talk on his research

This is the first talk that has arisen out of an earlier talk. 20 years ago Tony Pollard spoke to us on his WW1 battlefield archaeology funded by the Australian Government. His team discovered many Australian bodies which were given proper burials attended by their families. Ali recalled that his great Uncle in a Lancaster bomber was shot down 2 Days before the end of the war. The Lancaster crew parachuted to safety whereupon the SS shot all of them. His family never properly mourned him, never knowing what had happened to him as the village was now in East Germany. Ali spent a lot of time finding out what happened. Then 3 generations of the family visited the village where they found that the villagers had buried them properly in the graveyard. His research is impressive.

 

8 March 2025

The Misuses of History in Politics

(With particular reference to the speaker’s book Tanks on the Streets?: The Battle of George Square, Glasgow 1919)

Dr Gordon Barclay, archaeologist and historian

 

Date TBC via Zoom

The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War

Speaker TBC