Gloucestershire Heritage Hub has the usual ongoing programme of interesting talks, displays and exhibitions. Some of the talks are online. See their website here for further details and for booking if required.
Bisley History Group is hosting a talk by the popular speaker Kirsty Hartsiotis on ‘An Arts and Crafts Christmas’ at Bisley Village Hall on Tuesday December 17 at 7.30pm. Mulled wine and mince pies will be served. Pay on the door £3 visitors £2 members.
Gloucestershire Society for Industrial Archaeology are holding a Zoom talk to which all Local History Group members are invited on Tuesday 10 December at 7.20pm for 7.30pm (by Zoom)
The title of the talk is The National Library of Scotland Maps Website: Past, Present and Future.
Ray Wilson has sent the following information on the talk
Our speaker is Chris Fleet who holds the position of Map Curator at the National Library of Scotland (NLS). Chris set up and still manages the excellent “Map Images” section of the NLS website that many of us use regularly.
The talk will be in two parts. To start with we will hear briefly about the NLS’s extensive paper map collection of which over 200,000 maps have been digitised and are now online. The target is to eventually have a staggering half a million maps online and we will hear about the processes and highly specialised equipment they use. A number of groups are using the resource in a wide variety of projects and a few of these will be mentioned.
The final part of the talk will be a live demonstration of some of the key features of the website. This will be followed by a chance to put any questions to Chris that you might have. It should be a very interesting and informative evening.
To join the meeting please click on the link below after 7.20pm on the night
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/
If you need it the Meeting ID:is 825 7460 3085 and Passcode: 815933
If you have problems with the link, an alternative way to join the Meeting is via your usual web browser as follows:
Open your usual web browser
Go to join.zoom.us or the Zoom website Enter Meeting ID and passcode as noted above. Click join
If prompted, click the Start Video button on the bottom left.