Meetings

We meet on the first Monday of the month at 7.30 p.m. in the smaller hall of the Bearsden Community Hub, 66 Drymen Road, Bearsden, G61 3QT, just above Bearsden Cross.
This map shows the Hub and the main car parks in the area.

Membership is £15 per annum, and visitors are welcome (£5 per talk & 50 pence for juniors). Tea is served before the talk and there is an opportunity to chat and socialise.

Membership form
You can print an application form here.

For further information please contact us at enquiries@mbhistorical.org

PROGRAMME FOR 2026-2027

2026

Monday 5th October
The 1926 General Strike

Eddie McGuire


Monday 2nd November
Rudolf Hess: The Day the Devil came to Bearsden
Recently discovered documents shed new light on the events following the secret flight of Adolf Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess, to Scotland in May 1941.
This took place a few weeks after the destruction of Clydebank in one of the most devastating attacks of World War Two.
Details of his plan, his interrogation and medical treatment at Buchanan Castle, transport to the Tower of London, trial at Nuremberg and incarceration at Spandau before his suicide in 1987 remains one of the most bizarre stories of the twentieth century.
Pete Mowforth


Monday 7th December
King James VI up to 1603

Malcolm Hill


2027

Monday 4th January
Local history in folk music

Don Martin


Monday 1st February
The Highland Clearances

Martin MacGregor


Monday 1st March
Mugdock Castle

Karine Davison


Monday 5th April
North Glasgow

Norrie Wilson


26th April ?
AGM and Members' Night