Talks at The Smith
These City Walls
By Dr Murray Cook
Stirling’s city walls have never been recorded. Their construction is often dismissed as a panicked response to Scottish defeat at the Battle of Pinkie in 1547, the key battle of Henry VIIIth’s ‘rough wooing’ of Scotland to force the infant Mary Queen of Scots to marry his son.
Research led by Dr Cook and Dominic Farrugia suggests the walls are older, better preserved, and more significant than previously thought.
Admission: Payment in cash or card at the door.
Full price £5, Students £3.
Talk starts at 2pm, doors open at 1.30pm.
Image: Stirling City Wall, photo: Adrian Ross.