12 November 2016, Starts: 09:15, Ends: 17:00

Community Heritage Conference

Town House, Aberdeen

£10 includes buffet lunch. Bookings on Archaeology Scotland website http://www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk/news/community-heritage-conference-aberdeen

Draft programme:

09.15 Registration ( tea and coffee available)
10.00 Morning Session (Piers Dixon, HES, Chair)
10.00 Welcome & housekeeping (Phil Astley, Aberdeen Archives)
10.10 Irvine Ross (Glen Muick survey) Spittal, Shielings and Stills
10.35 Lorna Summers (Portsoy Salmon Bothy) The Salmon Bothy and traditional boat-building
11.00 Ann Murray Huntly Histories
11.25 Stewart MacIntyre (NE Scotland Archaeological Research Society) Hillhead, Balbithan and beyond
11.50 Anna Mayhew and Lewis Matheson (Skills for the Future trainees, HES)
Community Heritage on Eigg
12.00 One Minute Mayhem 60-second presentations against the clock
12.15 Lunch, displays and guided tours
Including:
12.45-13.45 St Mary’s Chapel and Mither Kirk Project – Dr Arthur Winfield & Alison Cameron
12.45-13.45 Womens’ Heritage Walk – Aberdeen Womens’ Alliance
13.45-14.05 Aberdeen Archives Tour – Philip Astley
Also: The Historic Shop Fronts exhibition at 17 Belmont Street will be open over lunchtime (ask on the day for directions).

14.15 Afternoon Session (Jill de Fresnes, HES, Chair)
14.15-15.20 Short presentations on oral history projects
Including:
Fiona Rennie on Aberdeen Memories Project;
Eric Glendinning: Haddington History Society;
Speaker tbc

15.20 Tea & coffee, displays, workshops and tours
Including
15.40-16.25 Workshop: Oral history recording techniques – Scotland’s Urban Past staff
15.40-16.25 Workshop: Curating and archiving oral recordings – speaker tbc
15.40-16.00 Aberdeen Archives Tour – Philip Astley

16.30 Panel Discussion on oral history (Jill de Fresnes, Chair)
17.00 Closing remarks & Thanks (Eila MacQueen, Archaeology Scotland)