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Seminar Series 2025-26
Friends of Argyll Estates Archives are delighted to introduce our new Seminar Series for 2025-26, informed by research undertaken in the archive. All seminars take place via Zoom on a Friday, at various start times to allow Friends around the world to participate. Members of the Friends can attend these events for FREE. Non-members pay
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Finding your Scottish Family: Uncovering personal and place names. November 2025
Following the success of a previous study day and evenings we are looking forward to our new evening online event designed to further support those that are on their journey of researching their family history. On both evenings our speakers will be introduced, and the Q&A session chaired by Colonel Graham W. Fountain, MA, BS,
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Leading Ladies: bringing history to life at Inveraray Castle
Our Leading Ladies project is recreating two historic outfits depicted in portraits in the collection at Inveraray Castle. The two portraits are of Lady Charlotte Campbell (1775-1861), daughter of the 5th duke of Argyll, depicted as ‘Aurora’ by John Hoppner and of ‘Mrs Mary Campbell’ (as the portrait is inscribed), who was the Hon. Mary
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Doors Open Day, Saturday 20 September
Ever wondered what amazing historical records the Duke of Argyll keeps in his archives? Want to find out more about people and places in Argyll and beyond? Join us on Saturday 20 September 2025 when Argyll Estates Archives is open for Doors Open Day! Drop-in, book for a FREE tour or come along for our
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Signed, sealed, delivered . . . and unopened
The majority of items we hold in the archive have been read many, many times before – usually by pairs of eyes long since departed from this world. However, during recent cataloguing work we came across a hugely exciting find: an unopened bundle of documents from 1709! The folded contents of this neat little packet
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Visit to Bonawe Iron Furnace & Historic Kilbride
The Friends are planning an exciting visit to Bonawe Iron Furnace and Historic Kilbride on Wednesday 10 September 2025. Visits are an exclusive benefit of Friends membership, so please make sure your membership is up to date. Further information and details on how to book your place can be found by logging in to the
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Cleaning up our act
People often ask what being an archivist actually means. In truth, the role is so varied that it’s almost impossible to define an average ‘day in the life’ for any archivist, although like most professions these days, at least some of it will be spent in front of a screen answering emails! Whatever their archive
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April 2025 Online Seminar: Duke Niall Revisited
In a change from our advertised programme, our April presentation in the Friends seminar series 2024/25, will take place via zoom on Friday 25 April 2025 at 14:30 UK time when Kenneth Whyte will present ‘Duke Niall Revisited’. Niall Diarmid Campbell, 10th duke of Argyll, (1872-1949) was a Highland landlord, member of the British aristocracy,
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Oban’s Origins
Amongst the many stories contained in Argyll Estates Archives is that of the early days of Oban. The original ‘village’ of Oban grew up around the natural, sheltered harbour, with the land owned by the Duke of Argyll on the south side and the Laird of Dunstaffnage on the north side. A report compiled by
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Adopt a Glass Plate Negative!
Our current sponsorship campaign focuses on our superb collection of early glass plate negatives. A total of 97 photographic plates require expert care from skilled conservators, including individual cleaning, repackaging and stabilisation of broken plates. There are 78 plates by Scipio Mactaggart depicting Inveraray and its inhabitants in the 1860s, and a further 19 from