Perthshire Society of Natural Science
Environment, Nature and Cultural Heritage.
For the last meeting in this PSNS season, Laura Brown, curator of the collection, gave us a guided tour of the photographs available – somewhere between 1.6 and 1.8 million photos(!), some dating back to the earliest days of photography in the late 1830s.
Unfortunately, due to technical issues, a video of the evening will not be available. However, the live link at which the collection can be viewed is: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/collections/
At the Archaeology & History section’s November meeting, Clare Henderson, an archaeologist with the National Trust for Scotland, introduced us to the archipelago of St Kilda, the UK’s only dual UNESCO World Heritage Site.
She explained the settlement of the islands from prehistory to the famous evacuation of 1930.
We studied both surviving archaeology and the written and photographic records that allow us to tell the island’s story.
A recording of the talk can be seen on youtube:
To mark the 75th anniversary of the PSNS Archaeology & History Section, on 23 September David Bowler led a group around heritage sites of Perth.
See the video on YouTube: