Trades & Crafts in Scotland, Medieval to Modern

The theme of the next Scottish Local History Forum conference is Trades & Crafts in Scotland, Medieval to Modern.

It's being held in Scottish Local History Forum at Glasgow Trades Hall,  85 Glassford Street, Glasgow on Thursday, 31 October 2013.
The cost is £30 including morning tea & coffee & sandwich lunch, with a £4 reduction for members.  

 It's an interesting programme:    

10.15-12.30 

• Murray Blair- The Trades House and Hall of Glasgow                       
• Dr Bruce Durie - Finding records of trades, crafts, burgess guilds and apprentices. 
• Olive Geddes -Wielding the hammer : the record books of the Hammermen of Perth 
• Dr Douglas Lockhart - New homes in the suburbs and the countryside: developing  trade guilds’ land
• Don Martin - Scottish trade symbols  

14.00-16.30

• Dan Coughlan - Pirns, patterns and poetry - a look at the life and culture of the Paisley weavers
• Lorna Dey - Flour power: Aberdeen’s baxters          
• Heather Jack - Industry, and the schools of art and design
• John Donaldson - Carvers are starvers

More information.

David Smith Cairns, a Famous Theologian

The Hawick Heritage Hub has an interesting blog about David Smith Cairns, who grew up in Stichill and went to Ednam school from 1873 to 1876, when he was almost 14 years old.
He became Master of Christ’s College, Aberdeen and Professor of Apologetics and Systematic Theology.
He and his brother, William, were the sons of David Cairns, the minister of Stichill United Presbyterian Church.
Christ’s College, Aberdeen was a college founded by the Free Church of Scotland but is now part of the University of Aberdeen's School of Divinity.