Meeting Reports 2015-2016

Scotland's Earliest People Tam Ward (Biggar Archaeology Group) 9 October 2015 Read more about Scotland's Earliest People
Milk! From Grass to the Table Stuart Martin 23 October 2015 Read more about Milk! From Grass to the Table
Dumfries and the Railway from the Beginning until 1923 David Ross (Author and Historian) 6 November 2015 Read more about Dumfries and the Railway from the Beginning until 1923
Fungi Folklore Duncan Ford (Countryside Ranger, Hoddom and Kinmount Estate) 20 November 2015 Read more about Fungi Folklore
James Williams Lecture Father of the Society: Frank Miller FSA Dr Valentina Bold (Director, Solway Centre for Environment and Culture, University of Glasgow, Dumfries) 4 December 2015 Read more about Father of the Society: Frank Miller FSA
Excavating the Galloway Viking Hoard Andrew Nicholson (Archaeologist, Dumfries and Galloway Council) 15 January 2016 Read more about Excavating the Galloway Viking Hoard
First Encounters with the Roman de Fergus — a Medieval Tale of Galloway Goings-on Penny Eley (Emeritus Professor of Medieval French, University of Sheffield) 29 January 2016 Read more about First Encounters with the Roman de Fergus — a Medieval Tale of Galloway Goings-on
Recent Developments at Birrens Roman Fort Alan Wilkins 12 February 2016 Read more about Recent Developments at Birrens Roman Fort
Members' Night Heroine or Harlot: Eliza Smith and the New Abbey Refugees Stuart McCulloch 26 February 2016 Read more about Heroine or Harlot: Eliza Smith and the New Abbey Refugees
The Laird and the Land Surveyor: The Mapping of the Queensbury Estate Professor David M. Munro, MBE 11 March 2016 Read more about The Laird and the Land Surveyor: The Mapping of the Queensbury Estate
Billy Marshall: Galloway Gypsy and Leveller — Myth and Reality Ivor Waddell 26 March 2016 Read more about Billy Marshall: Galloway Gypsy and Leveller — Myth and Reality