Kirkcudbright Parish Church

Peter Tatchell has been one of the most influential and inspiring campaigners for human rights, equality and LGBT+ freedom over the past 50+ years. Peter has made an impact in the UK and internationally, challenging the abuses of brutal regimes such as Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe and authoritarian states from Iran to Russia, Saudi and China. […]

This year is the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War: the defeat of Nazi Germany and imperial Japan and the hope of a better future and society. Join David Kynaston - one of the foremost authorities on post-war Britain and author of a multi-volume series which began in 1945 and will […]

Scotland’s Parliament, established over 25 years ago, has changed how we do politics. But has its record and impact been as significant as its advocates claim? What have been its successes - and what could it do better? People feel increasingly alienated by party politics and the centralisation of ‘Edinburgh knows best’. How if at […]

The stories and mystery of royalty litter the history of Scotland, Britain and the Union. Historian Kate Williams, one of the foremost experts on royal history, author of several bestselling books and TV programmes on the subjects, will tell us about the life and times of Mary, Queen of Scots, how she lived and where, […]