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<MAPS FOR LOCAL HISTORY> is the theme of the annual conference of the Scottish Local History Forum to be held on Saturday 5 October 2002. The conference has been organised in conjunction with the newly-formed Scottish Maps Forum and the National Library of Scotland, and concentrates on maps of Scotland before the mid-19th century, when the Ordnance Survey first mapped Scotland. VENUE: The Conference will be held in the Lesser Hall in Falkirk Municipal Buildings, West Bridge Street, Falkirk, which has disabled access and good car parking facilities. The nearest station is Grahamston. FEE: GBP14.00 (includes buffet lunch and morning tea/coffee) PROGRAMME 9.45 Registration & coffee 10.15 MORNING SESSION Deciphering Pont and Blaeu Dr Jeffrey Stone (Aberdeen University) Maps of the Scottish counties: the example of Renfrewshire John Moore (Glasgow University Library) Estate plans in Scotland Tristram Clarke (National Archives of Scotland) Making the Gartmore Village map David Thompson (Gartmore Village Map Group) 12.45-14.00 LUNCH 13.30-14.00 Scottish Local History Forum Annual General Meeting 14.00 AFTERNOON SESSION Understanding historic towns: the case for cartography Dr Pat Dennison (Edinburgh University) Putting Scotland on the military map Doreen Grove (Historic Scotland) Place-names and the hidden landscape Dr Simon Taylor (St Andrews University) 16.00 CLOSE Contact [log in to unmask] for a booking form and further information about the Scottish Maps Forum. **************************************************** Diana Webster Head of Map Library National Library of Scotland Email [log in to unmask] 33 Salisbury Place Tel 0131-226 4531 x 3411 Edinburgh EH9 1SL Fax 0131-466 3812 Scotland, UK ****************************************************