The Urban Historian – See the history around you

Delivering Heritage Walks and more in Paisley & Renfrewshire

We’re always ready for a coffee and a chat!

Our Heritage Cafes will be returning in the near future. Watch this space for details.

The Urban Historian is a Heritage consultant and Educator

located in the town of Paisley in Renfrewshire, Scotland.

Through guided walks, with a focus on local history and architecture, public lectures exploring the area’s past and informal gatherings discussing historical topics at History Cafes; the Urban historian aims to sustain engatement with and expand knowledge of Paisley and Renfrewshire’s abundant cultural legacy.

See the history around you

Our Heritage stories will shortly be moving to our new Heritage website:

renfrewshireheritage.uk

(also available at discoverrenfrewshireheritage.com )

This website will be the main booking platform for all of our Heritage Walks/ Talks/ History Cafe’s

Heritage Walks and Talks

Walks and Talks will be resuming later this year.

i’m still recoving and building up strength after my Bone Marrow Transplant. It is hoped to restart with a couple of walks before Christmas.

Eastern side of St Minin Wynd. All now dun Square — Eastern side of St Minin Wynd. All now Dun Square

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Other Services

Renfrewshire Heritage

Renfrewshire Heritage is our new one stop Heritage Website covering the Old County of Renfrew. You will be able to delve into the history of the Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire and Inverclyde Administrative areas.The Urban Historian

Renfrewshire Heritage

Renfrewshire Ancestors

Renfrewshire Ancestors is our dedicated Genealogy/ Family History website. Here you can discover our different research packages and other useful links for Renfrewshire Records that can aid you family history research.

Renfrewshire Ancestors

SJCResearch

SJCResearch is our corporate website relating to all of our activities. Here you will find our portfolio, along with links to other websites and details of Historical research packages (not genealogy) for clients such as businesses and local authorities.

SJCResearch