by Robin Thompson | 20 Jan 2018 | Uncategorized
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...
by Robin Thompson | 2 Jan 2018 | Articles
In “Shopping for Food and Drink in Victorian Dunfermline,” Sue Mowat tells us of the wide range of shops and businesses serving Dunfermline 150 years ago.
by Robin Thompson | 15 Dec 2017 | Diary, Talks
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...
by Robin Thompson | 12 Dec 2017 | Did You Know?
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...
by Robin Thompson | 10 Dec 2017 | Articles
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...