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Dougie Wylie - The refurbishment of the Parish Church Tower and Clock An illustrated talk on the problems and remedial work carried out in 2026 Read more

Helen Yaffe on "Cuba".  Helen lectures on Cuba and Latin America at Glasgow University. She has written books entitled 'We Are Cuba' and Ché Guevara: The Economics of Revolution' Read more

'The Glasgow School of Art fires', by Gordon Gibb Read more

James Day - “Charles and Margaret McKintosh - A lifelong partnership of excellence”. Read more

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Dr Paul Skett - " Sex, Drugs and Alcohol - the life of a forensic pharmacologist" Dr Paul Skett  Glasgow Expert Witness Ltd and honorary senior lecturer, School of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Health, University of Glasgow  Read more

Rosalind Holmes. The talk is entitled 'A hundred years of Chinese history through the lives of the women of one Beijing family'. Read more

David Cunningham - "Candide or Optimism?" In 1759, Voltaire wrote a novel called 'Candide or Optimism' In 1956 Leonard Bernstein composed an operetta based on Voltaire's story. In 1988 Scottish Opera staged Bernstein's Candide, directed by Jonathan Miller. I was lighting designer of that production. My talk will be about Voltaire's life, and the story of Candide with… Read more

Title:  Green Hydrogen for a Green Future? By Prof Mark Symes Talk summary: In theory, we could replace fossil fuels with a “hydrogen economy”. This concept involves using renewable energy to electrolyse water to make hydrogen, with this hydrogen then being used as a fuel that would release only water when it is consumed. However, although this… Read more