All enquiries to Mrs Marie Davidson davidsonmh@googlemail.com  tel 01419561172

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.

Associate membership £20 per year. Talks free to national HA members and students, visitors £5.

 

Glasgow & West of Scotland Programme 2026-27

 

 

 

This season our theme is Strathclyde

 

Saturday October 10^th 2026

The Stewarts of Renfrew - The Birth of a Dynasty

Dr Craig Haggart, University of Glasgow

 

Saturday November 14^th 2026

St. Patrick

Dr Thomas Owen Clancy, University of Glasgow

 

Saturday December 12^th 2026

The real King Arthur: A 6th Century Strathclyde hero

Professor Andrew Breeze, Professor of Philology, University of Navarra

 

Saturday January 16^th 2027

How Researchers in Scotland taught the world AI

Dr. Peter Mowforth, AI specialist

The origins of Artificial Intelligence began at the University of Edinburgh and Glasgow’s Turing Institute

 

Saturday February 15^th 2027

The turn of the tide - Harry Hopkins’ and Winston Churchill’s meeting in the North British Hotel Glasgow 1941

(Speaker TBC)

 

Saturday March 13^th 2027

Northwestern Approaches - Reassessing the river Clyde’s role in the Battle of the Atlantic

Dr. Andrew Jeffrey, historian, broadcaster and author

 

Look out for confirmation of our forthcoming talks – one for children on how many slaves escaped to the north before the civil war and “The History of the Scottish Morning Roll” - a humorous talk.