Saturday 4th - Sunday 12th May 2002

The University of Glasgow Archive Services will be bringing history to life in and around the Glasgow area with a host of activities and events. The events form part of Local History week organised by the Historical Association to celebrate local history and will run from 4th - 12th May 2002.

Ranging from exhibitions to local history fairs, seminars to West End pub tours, there will be events to suit everyone's tastes and interests.

A display on historic University buildings can be found all week at the University Visitor Centre.

Local Historic Associations, Museums and Archives have been involved in organising a local history fair to be held at the Mitchell Library to mark the start of the week on Saturday 4th May 2002.

Seminars will see a host of speakers discussing a range of related topics.

• The future of Local History

  With Dr James Macauley, architectural historian, Dr Don Spaeth, researcher of computer based methodologies in research and teaching, Dr Irene Maver, researcher in 20th century Glasgow and the making of urban Scotland.

• Local History Lost and Found

  An examination of the influence that local history and our own immediate environment has on all our lives. Noted speakers include the Scottish journalist and author Meg Henderson, Gordon Urquhart of the Glasgow Conservation Trust West, author and industrial archaeologist John Hume, Guthrie Hutton of the Forth and Clyde Canal Society and Bill Spalding, local historian and author.

For adults, there will be a tour around some of the most interesting pubs in Glasgow's West End while children can take part in competitions or, like P6 and P7 pupils from Copeland Primary School in Govan, spend an afternoon being university students. This event is run in collaboration with GOALS (Greater Opportunity for Access and Learning with Schools), a project to encourage children from local areas into higher education

The University of Glasgow Archive Services will also be opening its doors in a rare chance to see behind the scenes.

Finally, a course on Archival Sources in Glasgow will be held by the Department of Adult and Continuing Education.

To book tickets or for more information on these or any events during Local History Week, please contact Local History Week Events Co-ordinator, Adele Redhead at dutyarch@archives.gla.ac.uk

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First published: 30 April 2002