


Past Conferences
Past Conferences
The Scottish Records Association has been holding conferences on themes relating to Scottish historical records since 1977.
SRA Conference 2021
SRA Conference 2021
Net Profit: Sources for the history of Scottish fishing and fishing communities
Wednesday 12 May 2021 online
Speakers:
- Peter Jones. ‘We cannot see them...they have gone out of our reach’: sources for a national history of Scotland’s sea fisheries in the nineteenth-century
- Mollie Horne. Aberdeen Harbour Board: engagement in the time of COVID
- Alison Diamond. The Duke of Argyll and the British Fisheries Society
- Dorothy Kidd. Fishing and Fishing Communities: a glimpse at National Museums Scotland's collections
- Jen Gordon. Knitting the Herring: unravelling the histories of fishermen’s ganseys
- Alistair Stenhouse. An Archaeology of Intertidal Fish-traps in Northern Scotland
- Lorna Summers. The Coble and the King of Fish: the salmon fishers of Portsoy
- Iain A. Robertson. Sources Relevant to the Scottish Salmon Fisheries
- Margaret Ritchie. Casting and Re-casting the Nets: trawling sources for Scotland’s fishing heritage
- Ann Cameron. Fishing for Films in the National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive

SRA Conference 2019
SRA Conference 2019
Hidden Histories: on the subject of the use of Scottish archives to uncover stories usually obscured by the records.
Saturday 16 November 2019 at the Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee
In conjunction with the Centre for Scottish Culture at the University of Dundee
Speakers:
- Gordon J Barclay - The Battle for George Square, 1919
- Jane Brown - A case closeted in the archive: how legacy finding aids conceal LGBT histories, and why this matters
- Jacqueline Eccles - Redressing the balance in archives: using asylum records to give voice to the under-represented
- Louise Heren - Sex in the City: why early-20th century sexual violence was an urban working-class issue
- Jessica Secmezoy-Urquhart - The Fool Is Not Found Wanting In The Household Of The King Of Scots: the hidden history of Renaissance natural fools in the Lord High Treasurer's Accounts of Scotland
- Margaret McKenzie and Peter E Ross - Gypsy/Travellers in Scotland: a hidden community, a hidden history
- Marian Pallister - Unlocking the Silence: giving Grace a voice (the letters of Lady Grace Campbell)

SRA Conference 2018
SRA Conference 2018
Hence the Name: sources for place-name and personal name research in Scotland
Saturday 17 November 2018, Netherbow Theatre, Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh. In conjunction with the Scottish Place-Name Society.
Speakers:
- Dr Meredith Cane. What's in(a) it for you? Fashionable and unique forename research
- Dr Alice Crook. Personal Naming in Early Modern Scotland: consultation and analysis of the Old Parish Registers
- Chris Fleet. How to Avoid 'Heathery Buttocks': new developments in online maps, gazetteers and applications
- Professor Carole Hough. An Online Resource for Berwickshire Place-Names
- Dr Simon Taylor. Inter Limites Specificatos: some thoughts on place-name research in Scottish records.
- Dr Joanna Tucker. Cartularies as a Source for Place and Personal Names
- Robin Urquhart. Where the Heck is Heck? Sources for locating early modern places
- Dr Eila Williamson. Scotland’s Ordnance Survey Name Books: A ‘treasure trove’ for toponymists

SRA Conference 2017
SRA Conference 2017
Putting on the Writs: Scottish court and legal records
Friday 10 November 2017
New Register House, Edinburgh
Speakers:
- Loren Moulds and Dr Jim Ambuske. Recovering Hidden Histories of Early America and the British Atlantic World with the Scottish Court of Session Records Digital Archive
- Dr Alan Borthwick. Court of Session Case Study: Donoghue v Stevenson or the Snail in the Bottle
- Charles Fletcher. Barony and Regality Courts: a case study
- Fergus Smith. Sheriff Court Records
- Alison Diamond and Professor Allan MacInnes. Heritable Jurisdictions in Argyll, 1707-1730
- Dr Jackson Armstrong and Dr William Hepburn. Law in the Aberdeen Council Registers (LACR)
- Dr Edda Frankot and Dr Claire Hawes. The Records of the Medieval Burgh Courts of Aberdeen
- Professor Hector MacQueen. Ae Fond Kiss: A Private Matter?

Some earlier SRA conferences:
2016 Records about the NHS before the NHS (Perth, A K Bell Library)
2015 Researching Migrants and Migration (Perth, A K Bell Library)
2014 Common Good and Common Land (Linlithgow Burgh Hall)
2013 Et in Archiva Ego: Artists in the Archives. In conjunction with the Archives and Records
Association Scotland (Perth Conference Centre)
2012 Diaries and Journals (Glasgow, Renfield St Stephens Church)
2011 Historic Gardens and Designed Landscapes (Perth, A K Bell Library)
2010 Scottish Society and the Parish. In conjunction with the Economic and Social History of
Scotland Society (Stirling Tolbooth)
2009 Researching Big Events and Defining Moments (Edinburgh, Midlothian Chambers)
2008 Nonconformist Church records. In conjunction with the Ayrshire Federation of Historical
Societies (Troon, Walker Hall)
2008 Printing Records (Perth Conference Centre)
2007 Church Records (Perth Conference Centre)
2006 Records in Private Hands (Dundee, Caird Hall)
2005 Burghs, Trades and Incorporations (Edinburgh, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh)
2004 Medical and Health Records (Glasgow, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons)
2003 Court Records (Stirling Tolbooth)