https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000pnl
Time Travels
Susan Morrison goes to Ayr with maritime historian Dr Eric Graham, to find out about the grand Bruce dynasty plan to invade Ireland and grab a crown for Robert Bruce’s younger brother Sir Edward. If it had worked, the two countries might have been united.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000pnl
Time Travels
Susan Morrison finds out more about the darker side of Scottish settlement in Australia. Moving back to the 18th century with Eric Graham, we\’re on the trail of a gallant and dashing privateer Luke Ryan who scourged the coast of Scotland and gained the favour of Marie Antoinette.
Conference for Kirkcaldy Civic Society.
Speakers include:
Dr Eric Graham: The Bounty Hunters and the Innuit
Dr. Rob David: The Story of the “Abram”, a Kirkcaldy Whaling Ship
Matt Ylitalo B.Sc. B.A. M. Litt: Steamships, Stowaways and Smithsonian Polar Bear
Sonja Heinrich: From Whaling to Whale Science – why whales matter and how we study them
Jo Woolf (RSGS): Shackleton\’s Trek for Life to the Graves of Whales
Also – Kirkcaldy\’s Beached Whales/Leith Harbour and Scottish Involvement in the Antartic 20th Century Whale Hunting
Tickets
Tickets cost £10 and can be booked here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kirkcaldy-and-the-whale-tickets
An Exhibition of Black Minstrelsy at the Museum of Edinburgh explores shameful chapter in Scotland’s past as part of Black History Month 2017.
Read Eric’s article published in the Daily Record:
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/big-read-how-minstrel-shows-11300746
Eric’s article “Black Minstrelsy in Scotland”, published February 2011 by Scottish Local History Forum is available to download as a free PDF here: