Palaeography Workshops

The Scottish Records Association (SRA) offers palaeography classes to help researchers read and understand handwritten records produced in Scotland in the early modern period. Some are restricted to members of the Association only and others are open to everyone. The workshops are free of charge and are run on a voluntary basis by members of the SRA who have relevant experience in reading early-modern records and/or teaching palaeography. The classes were originally designed to be offered on-site for small groups but they have been modified to be presented online as well.

If you would like to host a palaeography workshop, please get in touch with the Membership Secretary via the Contact page.

Extract from the hearth tax roll for Aberdeenshire, compiled about 1692, copyright National Records of Scotland, E69/1/9/2

Workshops 2024

To coincide with the SRA conference in Aberdeen on 23 October 2024, the SRA will be running palaeography workshops at the Sir Duncan Rice Library, University of Aberdeen. On Tuesday 22 October, two sessions of the beginners' palaeography workshop will take place, and on Thursday 24 October, in conjunction with Glamis Castle Archives, the workshop on household papers and correspondence in private collections. For more details, see the Conference and Workshops form.