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 | 20 Jan 2021 | Video Lectures
Who Were the Jacobites and what did they want for Scotland? This month’s video lecture was presented in May 2018, in Dundee, and was organised jointly by the Centre for Scottish Studies and History Scotland. In it, two speakers propose differing views of the...
by Robin Thompson | 13 Feb 2018 | Articles
Born in Halbeath, The Rt. Hon. William Adamson, PC, MP was a miner, trade union leader and MP for Fife West from 1919 to 1931. He was a member of the first Labour Cabinet and became Secretary of State for Scotland. In this short biography, George Robertson summarises...
by Robin Thompson | 31 Jan 2018 | Did You Know?
Did you know.. …about the ‘Pernicious Society of Dunfermline Wheepmen?’ In this article Jean Barclay find in the records of Dunfermline Burgh Council the story of a very early industrial dispute between the farm servants of the town and the weavers...
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...