History talks back after cancer battle

Stephen resumes after two year fight over his health

- ELINA KOBZAR

Local historian Stephen Clancy is resuming his popular History Talks after battling cancer for over two years.

Known locally as the Urban Historian, Stephen has been delivering heritage walking tours and local history talks since 2002. He began teaching local history and archaeology part-time at the University of the West of Scotland, but when the department for lifelong learning closed down, he started his own freelance project - Renfrewshire History.

In 2012 Stephen rebranded as the Urban Historian and in the past year developed Renfrewshire Heritage and Renfrewshire Ancestors as two branches of research.

After being diagnosed with leukaemia over two years ago, Stephen had to put his talks, walks and History Cafes session on hold due to treatments.