2024 – 2025 Talks Programme

The society presents each year, between September and May, a series of talks covering a wide range of topics. Meetings are held in the Abbey Church Hall, Abbey Park Place, Dunfermline and start at 7:30 pm. Visitors are charged a fee of £3.00 per meeting and are made very welcome.

19th SeptemberIan Archibald
'Island Jewels of the Forth’
17th OctoberEric Melvin
'The Edinburgh of Deacon Brodie’
21st NovemberBruce Keith
'Scotland Beneath the Surface’
12th DecemberDHS Social Evening
Members Only Evening
16th JanuaryDr. Amy Blakeway
'The Early Years of Mary, Queen of Scots: War, Destruction, Reconstruction and Reformation’
20th FebruaryAGM. Joe Fitzpatrick
‘Update on the East Lomond Dig’
20th MarchBruce Jamieson
'Disaster at Darien –the Failure of the 17th C Scottish attempt to set up a Colony in Central America’
17th AprilProf. Charles Munn
'Rev. Henry Duncan –anti-slavery campaigner, geologist, educationalist and newspaper founder’
15th MayRichard Wemyss
'The Manx Beauty Project – 88 years of Stories'