Talks

I can often be found giving talks on different topics to groups and societies, both in person and online.

Upcoming talks

– Tuesday 4 February, 7.15pm, The Gretna Rail Disaster, Morningside Heritage Association (rearranged from 3 Dec due to illness)

– Wednesday 29 October 2025, 10:30am, Scotland’s

Herstory, Lauriston Castle, BOOK

Here are the talks I do most regularly, though do get in touch if there is a topic you are interested in which isn’t listed.

Mary Somerville
History of the Usher Hall
Women’s Land Army in Scotland
Christmas during the two World Wars
My time as a researcher on ‘Who Do You Think You Are’ tv series
The suffrage movement in Scotland
‘No Vote, No Census’; the 1911 census in Scotland and suffragettes
Women, Work and the First World War
Gretna train crash during First World War
Elizabeth Murray, Duchess of Lauderdale
Amazing women in Scottish history
John Murray Archive
Women writers in Edinburgh/Scotland

I have also taught an 8 week course of lectures for Open Association, part of St Andrews University, on women in history in Scotland 1860s-1930s.

Ruth Boreham

Tour guide and historian

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dive into the past and
uncover the history of
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