by Robin Thompson | 13 Feb 2021 | Articles
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 | 9 Jan 2021 | Articles
By George Robertson In 1886, Alexander Stewart published his book “Reminiscences of Dunfermline – Sixty Years Ago”, which contains a selection of fifty-six stories concerning people and events in Dunfermline. In his Prefatory Note to the book, Stewart remarks “no...
by Robin Thompson | 17 Dec 2020 | Video Lectures
This month’s video lecture, “Ways to Flodden, 1513” was given by Dr David Caldwell at the Archaeological Research in Progress Conference, 2016 in Galashiels. His talk puts the battle into it’s military context and is mainly concerned with the...
by Robin Thompson | 10 Dec 2020 | Articles
The Life and Times of the Poor School of Dunfermline by Dr Jean Barclay The Charity or Free School was established in Dunfermline in 1797 by the Society for Promoting Religious Knowledge among the Poor with the backing of the Town Council and soon became known as the...
