A forum for Scottish Baptist history since 1979.

The Scottish Baptist History Project was formed in 1979. According to Ian Balfour, one of the founding members, its first venture was initiating a survey of Scottish Baptist churches in the inter-war period (1918–1939).

However, it quickly broadened the scope of its interests, providing an opportunity for Scottish Baptists, and anyone else interested in the history of their churches and members, to meet to share papers, discuss their findings and prepare a small number of publications for sale, alongside promoting other Baptist historical books. In the 1980s, a major focus was on hearing and discussing draft chapters of a book that was published: David Bebbington (ed), Baptists in Scotland: A History (1988).

The SBHP normally holds two day conferences a year. On some occasions, it has joined a church to celebrate a special anniversary — for example, two hundred years of witness at Irvine Baptist Church in 2003 and Stirling Baptist Church in 2005; and the most memorable was at Wick Baptist Church in 2000, celebrating the 250th anniversary of the then oldest continuing Baptist Church at nearby Keiss. There are occasional papers read on other historical topics; the majority of these have concerned Baptists in other countries or mission work overseas, or quite recently when a session was focussed on a book written by a Scottish Baptist, Derek B. Murray, on the History of the Glasite Church in Scotland.