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Professor Edward Royle : New Lanark Ted gave a commanding and scholarly talk on New Lanark – its origins, the key players and a history covering the best part of 250 years.  Ted took us back to the early days

Edward Royle was born, bred and educated in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, before completing his education and beginning his academic career at the University of Cambridge.  His only connection with Scotland came when his Yorkshire-born uncle met a Scottish lass in the

Life Without the BBC? A cartoon of a dapper Lord Reith leaning on BBC House set John’s tone for his talk. Reith’s 1922 mission statement for the new BBC Company was to ‘Inform, Educate and Entertain’ guiding the activities of

After graduating in Medicine from St Andrews and Dundee Universities, Gordon joined the University Department of Medicine at Glasgow Royal Infirmary in 1974, training in general medicine with interests in haemophilia and thrombosis. He was appointed consultant in 1985; Co-Director

Tales of a Herald Reporter Catriona made clear right from the beginning of the existential threat facing newspapers.  Last year she went to give school girls a talk on Women in Journalism and asked the girls how many read a

John McCormick   After graduating from Glasgow University, John taught history in a Glasgow comprehensive school for two years before joining the BBC’s Education Department. He became a member of BBC Scotland’s Management Team in 1982 and moved to London in

Catriona is a reporter and columnist for the Herald and Times newspaper group. She is currently Chief Reporter and columnist for the Glasgow Times and writes a twice-weekly column for The Herald.  She specialises in education, is the Glasgow Times’s

The Rocket that eats itself Kelvin Probus members now know why the phrase ‘It’s not rocket science!’ gets bandied about so often.  Patrick’s talk on rockets was a no holds barred exposefor a lay audience on rocket science.  This included

Dr Patrick Harkness is from Ballyclog, in Co. Tyrone. Patrick obtained a MEng degree in Aeronautical Engineering from The Queen’s University of Belfast in 2003 and a PhD in space debris mitigation from Cranfield University in 2007. He is now

Improving the economic and environmental sustainability of a Scottish Hill Farm This talk by Dr John Holland was well outside the normal familiarity of most of our urban members.  He was telling us about the Scotland’s Rural College’s hill farm