Shotts Covenanters' Memorial Committee Leaflet, 1933

Leaflet publicising a conventicle at the Starryshaw Monument near Shotts, on Sunday 4th June 1933, which was oganised by the Shotts Covenanters' Memorial Committee. Starryshaw was the site of conventicles during the period of state repression 1660-1688. Among the psalms is Psalm 124 - 'the Old 124th' - the words of which had special significance to the Covenanting movement. The leaflet also notes the involvement of the Dykehead Silver Band, a brass band active c.1890s-1950s with roots among the area's miners - demonstrating the cultural fusion of the Covenanting tradition with contemporary social traditions in industrial communities.