Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland

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Welcome to the
Urban Historian

This is the booking website for all of the Urban Historians talks, history cafe’s etc and the Heritage Buddies Graveyard Tours.

Our sister websites Renfrewshire Heritage, Renfrewshire Ancestors, and Heritage Buddies all feed into this website.

Ferguslie Park House
Paisley Abbey Drain

We have a new Group on Facebook – Discover Renfrewshire & Paisley Heritage

Do you use Facebook and follow us on our Urban Historian, Renfrewshire Heritage and Renfrewshire Ancestor’s pages? Well with changes by Facebook to the way we can post links to our website, it is becoming harder to get our information on events out to you. Our new group allows sharing of links for events and we are now encouraging discussion on Renfrewshire’s History in a moderated, anonymous free enviroment. We are growing the group and want as many people in Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde and everywhere else with an interest in our Counties amzing heritage to join us!

Visit us at https://www.facebook.com/groups/discoverrenfrewshireheritage

Announcing the return of our Heritage Walks

Advert for Resumed Heritage Walk - Causeyside St Paisley

Announcing the return of our Heritage Walks in Renfrewshire! It has taken a while, and we are starting on a montly basis to see how things go between September and November 2026 before launching our 2027 programme.

Our first heritage walk will be on Sunday 20th September at 1.30pm on Causeyside Street – The walk is part of our Paisley now & then series. Click the image to the left to find out more!

A selection of our latest Events

Discover Renfrewshire Heritge is our blog site where we post all of our local history research along with photogrpah galleries that will be moving from this website in the near future.

If you want to discover your family history, Renfrewshire Ancestors is our Genealogy website. We specialise in researching ancestors in the Old County of Renfrew, Scotland.

Click on our logo to discover more about our research packages

Heritage Buddies is a 2 year proeject funded by Renfrewshire Councils

Culture Heritage & Events Fund.

The project is exploring Renfrewshire’s Heritage Graveyards through survey, research & story telling along with graveyard tours and talks. Click the logo to visit the project website to discover more and event volunteer!

About Us

The Urban Historian

The Urban Historian is Stephen, a local historian with an archaeology and genealogy background.

Having taught local archaeology & history classes at the University of the West Scotland for many years, Stephen went freelance delivering heritage walks & talks and has advised Renfrewshire Council, Renfrewshire Tapestry and others on matters of local heritage.

Stephen’s research interests include the earcly church sites of Renfrewshire, linen thread manufacturing in Scotland and recording heritage graveyards.