2025 Aberdeen Heritage Lectures
The Trust’s annual diet gets underway in March. There is something of a military flavour this year.
This year’s on-line lectures begin on 4 March 2025, with the Defence Infrastructure Organisation- part of the Ministry of Defence- speaking about how it cares for the approximately 830 listed buildings and 771 scheduled ancient monuments on the defence estate across the UK. One of the most significant heritage assets in Scotland is Fort George, near Inverness, constructed post-Culloden and still in active military use as the home of the Black Watch, 3rd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland (3 SCOTS).
There have been long-standing historical ties between the North East and Poland recorded since the C16th. Robert Gordon and William Forbes or Danzig Willie made their wealth trading out of Aberdeen to the Baltic States and William Chalmers from Dyce emigrated to Poland and was Mayor of Warsaw for three terms . Less well-known may be the significant contribution made by Polish troops in Scotland during WWII, with a number of units garrisoned in North East Scotland. On 18 March 2025 Jenny Grant a post-graduate researcher with Polish ancestry will talk about the Polish contribution to the the defence of Britain.
We also look forward to other presentations from North East Scotland Preservation Trust, 11 March 2025, which has a 40 year track-record of delivering repair, restoration and regeneration projects across Aberdeenshire and author, Mary Miers who will speak on how our architecture has been influenced by the romanticism of the highlands on 25 March 2025.
Lectures are delivered by Zoom and run on Tuesday evenings from 7pm-8pm. For more details about the lectures and for booking via Eventbrite click here.
The Trust recognises the support of Historic Environment Scotland and Aberdeen City Council.
