Please get in touch with event ideas or proposals. I can do Stramash or Homage talks of various lengths.
Festivals, societies, schools, clubs, weddings and bar mitzvahs. They don’t call me the hardest working non-fiction writer in showbiz for nothing. In fact they don’t call me that at all. Still, get in touch:
Coming up:
01/02/12 Greenock Writers’ Club
Stramash events gone by:
19/09/11 7.30pm Bearsden and Milngavie National Trust A Yorkshireman’s Scotland
17/08/11 8.30pm Edinburgh Book Festival. For anyone sick of the rampant commercialism on display in football’s top leagues, historian Daniel Gray’s Stramash offers a welcome change of pace. By visiting locales from Dumfries to Dingwall, Gray not only takes in the blood and thunder of the lower divisions, but surveys the past, present and future of Scotland’s forgotten towns. In On Fire with Fergie, Stuart Donald details how his relationship with his dad and his country was informed by the 1980s glory years of Aberdeen FC under the iconic management of Alex Ferguson.
16/06/2011 7pm The Parlour, Duke Street, Edinburgh. Part of the Leith Festival. A Yorkshireman’s Scotland - Author Daniel Gray talks up the forgotten Scottish towns and fitba teams he saw while writing Stramash. With Leither editor Billy Gould.
08/03/11 7.30pm Aye Write book festival, Mitchell Library, Glasgow. With Stuart Donald (On Fire with Fergie) and Rob Robertson (The Management: Scotland’s Great Football Bosses). Click here for more details: Aye Write
31/10/10 1.15pm Radical Book Fair, Out of the Blue Drill Hall, 30-36 Dalmeny Street, Edinburgh EH6 8RG. Stramash: The Scotland I Saw. A talk with some jokes inserted, and a discussion with Carol Craig Launches:
19/11/10 Riddles Court, 322 Lawnmarket Edinburgh, from 5.30pm
25/11/10 The Iron Horse bar, 115 West Nile Street, Glasgow, from 5.30pm
Homage to Caledonia events gone by:
17/01/09 Communist Party, Glasgow, 11am
29/01/09 Calton to Caledonia, Ramshorn Theatre, 7.30pm
06/02/09 Dumfries: Writing History, 2pm
07/02/09 Dumfries: Film, lunch and lecture, 12pm
26/02/09 East Lothian Fabian Society, Prestonpans Labour Club, 7.30pm
02/03/09 Glasgow University Scottish Nationalists Association, 7pm
03/03/09 NLS: Women and the Spanish Civil War, 7pm
11/03/09 Aye Write festival, Mitchell Library, 7.30pm
02/04/09 Rededication of Edinburgh memorial, 12.30pm
02/04/09 Ceilidh Culture, 8pm
04/04/09 Adam Smith Theatre, Kirkcaldy, 11am
16/04/09 Stirling University Nationalists Association, 7pm
21/04/09 Scottish Trade Unions Congress, Perth, lunchtime fringe meeting
23/04/09 Hamilton Town House Library, 7.30pm
22/05/09 SNP: Pint, pie and policy talk, 7.45pm
10/06/09 Leith Festival, Leith Library, 7pm
23/07/09 North Berwick Library, 7.30pm
07/08/09 Love Music Hate Racism, 7.30pm
13/08/09 Borders, Glasgow, 6.30pm
18/08/09 Aberdeen History Society, 7.30pm
20/08/09 Blackwells, Edinburgh, 6pm
27/08/09 Edinburgh Book Festival, 4pm
05/09/09 GMB Political Forum, Glasgow, 10.30am
08/09/09 Portlethen Academy, all day
10/09/09 Kilsyth SSP, 7.30pm
01/11/09 Radical Book Fair, Edinburgh, 12.30pm
12/11/09 Edinburgh Spanish Circle, 7.30pm
19/11/09 St Margaret’s school history society, 7pm
27/11/09 Unison Lothian NHS, 1pm
05/12/09 Belfast Unite, 11am
08/12/09 West of Scotland Historical Association, Mitchell Library, 5.30pm
06/01/10 Reshuffle, Govan Pearce Institute, 3pm
07/03/10 Aye Write, chairing Paul Preston event, 12.30pm
29/01/10 Open University History Society of Edinburgh, 8pm
30/03/10 East Renfrewshire Storytelling Festival, Newton Mearns Library, 7.30pm
29/04/10 Blantyre Miners’ Welfare, 7pm
05/07/10 Show with Jon Prag: Arisaig, Astley Hall, 7.30pm
07/07/10 Show with Jon Prag: Kinlochleven, Leven Centre, 7.30pm
08/07/10 Show with Jon Prag: Isle of Muck, Schoolroom, 7.30pm
13/07/10 William Patrick Library, Kirkintilloch, 7pm
14, 21, 28/08/10 Show with Jon Prag: Edinburgh Fringe, St Cuthbert’s, 2.05pm
12/10/10 Dollar History Society, 7.30pm
08/11/10 Marx Memorial Library, 6.30pm
16/02/11 Clydebank WEA, 10am
