Lecture by Dr Peggy Brunache on how history is remembered, interpreted and shared, focusing on slavery and Perthshire.
Dr Peggy Brunache is coming to Perth Museum on Friday 29 January 2027 for a talk called What Do We Remember? Language, Legacy and the Stories We Tell. She's a lecturer in the history of Atlantic slavery at the University of Glasgow, and the evening is built around how history is remembered, interpreted and shared.
Brunache takes chattel slavery and Perthshire's own connections to the transatlantic slave economy as her starting point. She looks at how the experiences of enslaved people have been represented — and often overlooked — in historical narratives, and how Scotland and Perthshire benefited from the trafficking and exploitation of people. It's the kind of talk that asks why some parts of the past get told and others get left out.
There's a more personal side to it, too. She reflects on stories of resistance, resilience and hope, and looks at the language used to describe the food and culinary traditions of enslaved people. She argues that those choices of words reveal something about power, identity and how we interpret history. It's not just a lecture on the facts of the past, but on how we talk about them today.
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The talk is held in the main hall of Perth Museum, which opened in March 2024 and holds 10,000 years of Scottish and world history, with the Stone of Destiny at its heart. It runs from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm, with doors opening at 5:45 pm, and tickets are £7.50 or £5, excluding the booking fee.
