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The following seminars have been recorded and links are available for members of the Friends.

Please email: friendsoftheargyllpapers@gmail.com to request a link.

Fri 4 Oct  14:30
Ronnie Black

John Dewar’s Diary: Keeping Shop and Making Stobs in Rosneath, 1844–52

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Fri 14th June 14:30
Bob Reid

Was the Marquess of Argyll guilty of treason during the Cromwellian occupation of Scotland?

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Fri 17 May 14:30
Sìm Innes

Raghnall agus Cairistìona: Industrial Action and a Sex Strike at Inveraray in the 1790s

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Fri 19 April 19:30
Bob Chambers

Online Seminar: West Side Story: Snippets of Tiree’s Crofting History

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Fri 15 March 14:30
Donald Meek

Part IV: Gunfire in Oban: Malcolm McLaurin’s Later Years

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Duncan Beaton

Campbell Pedigrees: the good, the useful and the totally unreliable

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Kate Ferrier 

 ‘Susan Ferrier and the Literary Circles of Inveraray’.

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Dr.Sheila Dickson

Rudolf Erich Raspe’s Marvellous Travels in Scotland: A survey in 1789 of the Duke of Argyll’s mineral resources by the geologist and author of ‘Baron Munchhausen’s Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia’
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Donald MacDougall & Murdo MacDonald

Crabit Age and Youth: An Archivist’s Training Then and Now

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Murdo MacDonald

Further discoveries in the Argyll Synod Papers

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Ronald Black
A Mixed-Up Campbell Villain: Mac Iain Riabhaich in the Dewar Manuscripts9

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Fraser Riddell
Victorian Theatre and the Cult of Beauty: Lady Archibald Campbell and Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like it’

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Julia Bracewell
The Double Duchess – the life of Elizabeth Gunning, Duchess of Hamilton and Duchess of Argyle.
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Donald Meek and Dr John Holliday ‘The Young McLaurin’, the first of a three part reassessment of Dr Malcolm McLaurin (1765-1834), Chamberlain of Tiree from 1801 to 1811

Part 2.
Donald Meek and Dr. John Holliday
Restructuring an Island: McLaurin’s years as Chamberlain of Tire

Part 3.
Donald Meek & Dr. John Holliday
A Tiree shipwreck: McLaurin and the ‘Duke of York’

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Rosanna Barraclough, ‘The most chaste and correct specimen of its style in the kingdom’: Joseph Bonomi the Elder (1739 – 1808) and Rosneath House 
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Lorn Macintyre, The Campbells of Dunstaffnage
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Professor Allan Macinnes, The Analysis of the Craignish Baillie Court Book, 1720-1729 (2020) 
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Dr Robert Irving , Medieval Grave Slab Rubbings, a Cyclic Journey of Serendipity from Nanotechnology to CoVID (2020)
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Nathan Bossoh, Victorian ornithology and the domestic laboratory: Argyll’s hope for aerial navigation (2021)
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Chris Dracup, Deciphering John Dewar’s Shorthand (2021)
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Duncan Beaton, Unravelling the Campbells of Glendaruel (2021)
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Danielle Fatzinger, Manuscript Production in Kintyre c. 1690-1698: Eoghan MacGilleoin and his Clan Campbell Patrons (2021)
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Dr Micky Gibbard, The New Town of Inveraray: a window into the planned villages of Scotland (2021)
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Ann Galliard, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll – A Royal Artist (2021) 
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Finella Wilson, Getting to know my grandfather, Neil Munro (2021) 
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Linda Fryer, The Formation of the Carolina Company in Scotland, 1682: revisited (2021)
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Iain Connon, Colintraive and the Campbells of Southhall (2022)
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Katie McCullough, Non-Landlord Economic Development in the Argyll Papers (Kintyre) (2022)
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John Moore, Surveying the Argyll estate in the second half of the eighteenth century: the work of William Douglas, George Langlands and James Turnbull (2022)
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Dena Palamedes, Following the trail of Angus McInnis of Savary, Morvern (2022)
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Murdo MacDonald, Poor Widows and Popish Plots: the Synod of Argyll papers (2022)
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