I can often be found giving talks on different topics to groups and societies, both in person and online.
This has also included an 8 week course of lectures for Open Association, part of St Andrews University, on women in history in Scotland 1860s-1930s.
Here are the list of 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
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