Borders Heritage Festival - Seminar exploring myths

‘Witchcraft, wights, myths … and authenticity’, a seminar exploring myths and stories of the Scottish Borders and how they may emerge into the light of documented history.

A mini-conference exploring in various ways the stories and myths of the Scottish Borders, how they have endured and how they are documented and presented today, all reflecting the theme of the 2017 Borders Heritage Festival,  Borders - Where People Place and Myth Meet.

Speakers include:

Dr Simon White, Reader in Romantic and Nineteenth-Century Literature at Oxford Brookes University, talking of sharing glimpses of the past via the ‘My Mapping Magic’ project, part of his wide-ranging work which includes Witchcraft and Magic in Literature,

Dr David Welsh, lecturer, now retired, Northumbria University, sharing his researches in the Borderlands between Scotland and England, and

Tom Routledge describing his Borders family history research and how that has now, and intriguingly, added to the list of Reiver families.

Date: Saturday 16th September
Venue: Heart of Hawick
Time: 9.30am - 4pm
​Price: £9 includes refreshments and light lunch