Category: Talks

Note: This post is over 24 months old. Information may be outdated. The final talk in our 2021/22 season was…Continue readingThe Peebles Hoard

Note: This post is over 24 months old. Information may be outdated. Lifetime Haddington resident John Hamilton has taken on…Continue readingLost Haddington

Note: This post is over 24 months old. Information may be outdated. In a very entertaining talk David Connolly led…Continue readingStories from Garleton: A Castle’s Tale

Note: This post is over 24 months old. Information may be outdated. Andrew Kerr treated us to a detailed and…Continue readingThe Grand Fleet in the Forth – The Royal Navy in World War 1

Opened in the 1940s/50s on the site of the original County Cinema, HAddington (o. 1930s by Scott’s Empires (Paulo & Scott). Destroyed by fire, early 40s)Continue readingOf Popcorn and Picture Houses: A History of Haddington Cinemas

Note: This post is over 24 months old. Information may be outdated. On Thursday 9th September the first talk of…Continue readingThe Whitadder Project – Investigating archaeology in the Lammermuirs

Note: This post is over 24 months old. Information may be outdated. April 15th 2021 Professor Sir Geoff Palmer gave…Continue readingScottish Caribbean Historical Connections

Note: This post is over 24 months old. Information may be outdated. Fran Woodrow, one of East Lothian Council’s archivists,…Continue readingThe life of the 1st Marquess of Dalhousie

Note: This post is over 24 months old. Information may be outdated. Jenni Morrison, an Associate of Addyman Archaeology, described…Continue readingBringing Buildings Back to life – community archaeology at Black Bull Close, Dunbar