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Scottish Place-Name Society
Comann Ainmean-Aite na h-Alba
Day conference – Saturday 10th May 2008
Elgin
Eight Acres Hotel

Programme:

1030 – 1100 Registration and coffee/tea

1100 – 1130 Mr Ian Keillar ‘Speak weel o the hielands and live in the laich’ (the four cathedrals in Moray and their Gaelic place-names).

1130 – 1215 Professor Geoffrey Barrow The lost place-names of Moray.

1215-1300 Professor Thomas Clancy Elgin, Banff, Earn, Atholl: New Irelands in the east revisited.

1255-1355 Buffet lunch (bookstall available)

1355 – 1420 AGM – reports, accounts and elections

1420 – 1505 Dr Simon Taylor Place-names in the Book of Deer.

1510 – 1600 Dr Carole Hough Women in Scottish place-names.

1600 Farewell coffee/tea and biscuits

The cost for the day will be £16, inclusive of conference, tea / coffee on arrival and departure, and buffet lunch. Full-time students £8.
If you would like to attend please send a letter (or complete form below) with your name, address and phone number, and a cheque for £16 (or £8) per person payable to SPNS, to Pete Drummond, 8 Academy Place, Coatbridge ML5 3AX by April 26th (although late bookings can usually be accepted). PLEASE MARK ENVELOPE ‘SPNS CONFERENCE’. Alternatively, phone Pete Drummond on 0776968 0293. (Acknowledgements will not be sent.)


SPNS CONFERENCE

To: Pete Drummond, 8 Academy Place, Coatbridge ML5 3AX

Please find enclosed my cheque for £ __ for __ places at the May 10th Elgin SPNS conference.

Name (please print)

Address

Phone number

Email

 


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