The unveiling of the new Shakespeare trail statue, read more below!
Photograph by Graham Robb
We wouldn’t be able to function without our amazing volunteers. We are a small independent organisation and without the help of these fantastic individuals, we would not be able to run they way that we do. Our volunteers this week have been busy with front of house tasks, researching a variety of different topics and digitising a vast array of documents.
Our volunteers have had a good giggle reading the content from some of the church records, they cover everything from fornication and who has been caught “up to no good” to the schedule of knitting and sewing at the women’s guild meetings. There’s always an interesting surprise waiting to be found within the archive!
One particularly interesting excerpt relates to “The Great disruption” of 1843 and the formation of Clunie Free church. Click on the picture to read it.
Monday memories were reminiscing about their school days, they were helping to name and date images from the collection we were given by the Royal school of Dunkeld.
There was a befuddling background in some of the images… can you help us find the location? There were two photographs taken of the school staff in the 1930s but we can’t decipher where the images were taken. Do you recognise this spot?
The Statue unveiling – Photograph by Graham Robb
Wednesday was the long awaited SCOTO LOCALfest Curated Conversations event in the Birnam Arts Centre. This event started with the unvieling of the new Birnam Oak statue created as part of the University of Birmingham’s Birnam Oak project. The statue, created by stonemason Lewis Morrison, was unvieled by Markus Offer from Museums Galleries Scotland. Dr Toria Johnson the project lead was in attendance with Fiona Ritchie and Ruth Brown of the Chapter House Museum Trust. Read more about the Birnam Oak project here.
This then transitioned to the LocalFest SCOTO event in which several heritage organisations gathered for an afternoon of conversation and discussion about working in community-led tourism, revenue generation, technology and innovation. Thank you to Carron Tobin and Diane Smith for their hardwork in organising this event and all the amazing attendees and panel members for taking part! Find more information about SCOTO here.
On Friday we had another training day with Richard Support Choices Perth and Kinross, we were learning how to provide the best service that we can to neurodiverse individuals as part of our efforts to remove barriers within our organisation. We are constantly undertaking new training in order to be the best prepared and informed that we can be.
We are very excited for our talk this evening in the Perth Arms with Lindsey Gibb on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society of Scotland. This talk will be focusing on the history of the Fair Maid’s House in Perth, Perth’s oldest house! There is a limited number of tickets remaining, click here to purchase.
Our upcoming events are;
26th of February – Skills Workshop – Ceramic Identification with Derek Hall. Click here for tickets
13th of March – In Conversation with… Dr Kate Britton: Late Pleistocene (Ice age) Archaeology and Archaeological Science. Click here for tickets
17th of March – Creative writing workshop with Elizabeth Kostova
19th of March – Creative writing workshop with Elizabeth Kostova
26th of March – Skills workshop: Excavation Skills
7th of April – Creative writing workshop with Elizabeth Kostova
9th of April – Creative writing workshop with Elizabeth Kostova
30th of April – Skills workshop: Dr Lucy Dean; Basics of Latin and Old Scots
View our what’s on page for more info, all tickets will be available via eventbrite.