Recorded Lectures

The Society runs an annual programme of public events, including lectures and conferences. Where possible, they are recorded and made freely available online. Here are a selection of the most recent. Please see the Society’s YouTube channel for more.

The archaeology of the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival
Presented by Dr Kenny Brophy BSc FSAScot
The tools of the trade of field-working oral historians and folklorists
Presented by Professor Margaret Bennett
Committing Sexual Violence in 1920s Scotland
Presented by Dr Louise Heren FRHistS FSAScot
Fragile treasures: textiles of the Galloway Hoard
Presented by Dr Susanna Harris PhD FSAScot.
April Lectures 2024
This talk features two short 20 minute presentations given by Early Career Researchers/recent PhD graduates.
Rhind Lectures 2024
Our Rhind 2024 Lectures presented by Professor Richard Oram PhD FSA FRSA FSAScot.
The development of women’s football in Scotland, 1880-1939
Presented by Professor Fiona Skillen MA MPhil PhD FRHistS SFHEA
The impact of the Storegga Slide tsunami on the Mesolithic population of Britain
Presented by Dr Clive Waddington FSA FSAScot MCIfA
The ethnological foundation of the Scottish Enlightenment
Presented by Professor Tommy J Curry
On their terms: black women subverting the plantation economy in the Caribbean
Presented by Dr Peggy Brunache
Anniversary Meeting and AGM 2023
The Society hosted the Anniversary Meeting on St Andrew’s Day on Thursday 30th November 2023...
Changing his tune: Robert Bruce, Ireland, and the papacy
Presented by Fiona Watson
The life and death of Atlantic Rock Art
Presented by Dr Joana Valdez-Tullett FSAScot
Rhind Lectures 2023: What has Maya archaeology done for us?
Presented by Emeritus Professor Elizabeth Graham
Life and Death in Medieval Leith | ARP 2023
A multidisciplinary approach to understanding the Medieval population of Leith