Lectures and Events
The Society hosts monthly lectures, usually between October and May, and generally held in both Edinburgh and Aberdeen, although some are jointly hosted with other Societies elsewhere in Scotland. The Society also has a Regional Fund which enables other Society's to invite a lecturer to them; this lecture is called the Buchan lecture.
In addition, the Society hosts the prestigious Rhind Lectures, a series of six lectures presented by a single lecturer over a weekend. These allow the lecturer to present their topic in much greater detaila nd depth than otherwise possible, and are often published. The Rhind lectures began in 1874 after the death of Alexander Rhind who left the residue of his estate to endow a lectureship in the Society and there have now been over 130 lectures and many have become the published textbook for a generation.
- Society lectures and other events are now recorded where possible and placed online on the Society website free to view.
- The Rhind Lectures are similarly recorded and available to view since 2009.
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