February 2018 Meeting

15th February 2018 The DHS Annual General Meeting will take place this year at 7:30 pm, in the Abbey Church Hall  and will be immediately followed by – “Women Pilots of World War II”, given by Roy Johnstone. Roy has been fascinated by history all his...

January 2018 Meeting

Thursday 18th January “Pictish Settlement, East Lomond Hill”                            Oliver O’Grady and Joe Fitzpatrick Anyone who watched “Digging for Britain” will have seen a little of this archaeological dig  in the 6th December...

William Beveridge and Dunfermline

Did you know… …about the Dunfermline links of the author of the Beveridge Report? In “Sir William Beveridge”, Jean Barclay describes the family links between one of the founders of the modern welfare state and his second cousin the Dunfermline...

The Rev. Ralph Erskine

There is a statue of an 18th Century minister outside the former church in Queen Anne St. and it has been there since 1849. Who is it of, and why was he commemorated like this? In “Rev. RALPH ERSKINE (1685-1752) –  SECESSIONIST MINISTER” George Robertson...