June Trip 2019

Sunday 16th to Tuesday 18th June 2019 Full report, with photos, now available at “On a Wee Highland Daunder”. This year’s trip will be a two night visit to the Highlands, based at the Coylumbridge Hotel, near Aviemore. We will set off at 8:15 am from...

Abertay Historical Society Publications

Those who attended our April 2019 talk “Quite Happy – The Diary of James Fyffe, Cattle Dealer, 1836 – 1840” presented by Prof. Richard Oram, will remember that Richard pointed out that the diary itself is available on line from Abertay...

May 2019 Meeting

16th May 2019 Dunfermline Historical Society, 7:30pm Sam Foster, Dunfermline Town Planning Sam is an architect in Dunfermline specialising in contemporary ecological architecture. As a member of “Friends of Dunfermline” he is involved in work to regenerate...

Photo of Mary Thomson

When writing the article about Mary Thomson and the Female Industrial School, a great deal of searching was done to try and find a photograph of Mary or some of her pupils but with no success.   This photograph was found in the Journal Almanac 1913, a copy of which is...

Elders with feet of Clay

In the fifth of our series of Tales from the Kirk Session, Jean Barclay recounts the stories of two kirk elders from the 1720’s who each got into trouble themselves. One was dealt with swiftly by Robert Ferguson’s case was more complicated. The tale...