by Robin Thompson | 30 May 2021 | Articles
“Reminiscences of Dunfermline – Sixty Years Ago” by Alexander Stewart, published in 1886, includes a story concerning an unusual college and a Provost of the town who was also a fixer of dislocated bones. In “Pattiesmuir College and Adam Low,...
by Robin Thompson | 22 Apr 2021 | Video Lectures
This month’s featured YouTube video lecture is another presented by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. It was given in the National Museums Scotland Auditorium, on the 9th March 2020, just before lockdown, by Dr. Matt Knight. Dr Knight, who is Curator of...
by Robin Thompson | 22 Apr 2021 | Uncategorized
The British Association for Local History, of which the Dunfermline Historical Society is a member, has published the sixth edition of their online newsletter.
by Robin Thompson | 4 Apr 2021 | Articles
by Dr Jean Barclay As our lives are being affected by a viral pandemic, it seems timely to look back to an outbreak of influenza in mid-18th Scotland and its description and treatment by Dr. John Stedman of Dunfermline. According to Dr. Stedman the outbreak was a...