AN ILLUSTRATED TALK BY WRITER AND BROADCASTER

Drawing on a lifetime of exploring, writing and broadcasting about Scots, their culture and their journeys across the globe, Billy Kay reflects on the history of the Scots in Poland. Billy will celebrate the historic cultural connections which developed between Poland and Scotland in the present and the past, and illustrate the talk with clips from his BBC Radio Scotland series Merchants, Pedlars, Mercenaries and Societies with Secrets. He will compare and contrast the Polish migration to present day Scotland with the heyday of the Scottish Brotherhoods which existed in twelve Polish cities in the 17th century. How many of the Poles living in Scotland today, for example, are simply Scots returning to their homeland? For more information visit www.billykay.co.uk