LCT Lectures
2025-26 Winter Lecture Series
Linlithgow Civic Trust organises a series of lectures, presented over the autumn and winter.
The 2024-25 series of lectures proved very popular. This is the first in the 2025-26 season and more will follow.
- Warfare in the Minority: 1513 – 1526
Jon Cooper
Jon Cooper Thursday 23rd October at 7:30pm
Queen Margaret Hall, 53 Blackness Road, Linlithgow EH49 7JAAs an introduction to the Trust’s commemoration of the Battle of Linlithgow Bridge on 4th September 1526 in its 500th anniversary year, this season’s first talk is by Jon Cooper, military historian, battlefield archaeologist, and author of The Heart And The Rose – the book about the battle.
Jon will take a historical look at events leading up to the battle, and talk about the battle itself, fought by the Earl of Lennox against the Earls of Angus and Arran.