by Robin Thompson | 3 Jan 2022 | Video Lectures
The latest Video Lecture from Markinch is this Thursday, and will only be available then. Ian Archibald gave an excellent presentation to Dunfermline Historical Society, in 2016, on a similar topic “Shipwrecks of the Forth” so this should be a good video...
by Robin Thompson | 19 Dec 2021 | Articles
In “An Excellent Goose for Dunfermline”, our last new article for this year, Jean Barclay brings to our attention an unusual newspaper article written in 1865 and collected in the “Folio of Oddities”. In it, the unknown author speculates on how...
by Robin Thompson | 19 Dec 2021 | Video Lectures
We have been sent the latest e-newsletter from the British Association for Local History. It contains links to several on line talks and an invitation to take part in their new Local History Photographer of the Year competition. Please click the link below to read it....
by Robin Thompson | 8 Nov 2021 | Articles
In the first of three articles about Dunfermline soft drinks manufactures, George Beattie tells the story of Gilbert Rae, whose company demonstrated the innovation and experimentation of late Victorian Scotland. Gilbert Rae produced ginger beer, lemonade, kola and...
by Robin Thompson | 27 Oct 2021 | Articles
In the next of his articles based on Alexander Stewart’s “Reminiscences of Dunfermline – Sixty Years Ago”, George Robertson describes the provision of pharmacy and medical care available in Dunfermline in the early years of the 19th Century. As...