South Ayrshire Local History Library (Ayr) is organising the South Ayrshire History Fair on 7 June 2014 in Walker Halls, Troon. Speaker’s topics include:

Thomas Clancy, University of Glasgow
Language and land in 12th and 13th century Ayrshire: Place Names and Charters

Derek Alexander, National Trust for Scotland
Digging for a Victory: searching for the archaeology of Bannockburn

Tom Barclay, Local Studies Librarian, South Ayrshire Council
Ayrshire’s Great War: the local impact of the 1914-1918 Global Conflict

Alistair McEwan, Project Coordinator of Edinburgh’s War Project
‘Title to be confirmed. The subject will be the World War One enlistment of Scottish emigrants in the forces of their adopted countries, and the return of many of them to Scotland to enlist’

For further information go to website http://southayrshirehistory.wordpress.com