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Rhind Lectures 2024

In their most anticipated event of the year, the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland's 2024 Rhind Lectures return from 31st May to 2nd June.

Rhind Lectures 2024

About Rhind Lectures 2024

31st May 2024 to 2nd Jun 2024
Various - see event website
Augustine United Church
41 - 43 George IV Bridge, Edinburgh Old Town EH1 1EL
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Two 'little' ice ages and an anomaly: climate, environment and cultural change in medieval and early modern Scotland.

The Rhind Lectures are our most highly anticipated event of the year. Since 1876 the Society has invited experts to give an annual series of six lectures on a historical or archaeological topic.

This year, Professor Richard Oram FSAScot will dissect the impacts of historic climate change on the environment of Scotland and its people. Between the dawn of the ‘Late Antique little ice age’ in the 6th century CE to the waning of the ‘little ice age’ in the 19th century CE, from epidemic and epizootic disease to energy crises and transitions, ‘Golden Ages’ to ‘Ill Years’, this was an era where dearth, abundance, sustainability and resilience shaped Scotland.

Join us free online or in person in Edinburgh.

Image: Coire Chuiltran, Glen Almond, solitary Scots Pine.
Copyright: Richard Oram 

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