by Robin Thompson | 23 Sep 2019 | Diary, Talks
17th October 2019 Ian Scott, “James Watt” 7:30 pm in the Abbey Church Halls, Dunfermline. 2019 is the 200th Anniversary of the death of James Watt, one of the most influential of the pioneering engineers of the industrial revolution. Those of you who were...
by Robin Thompson | 15 Aug 2019 | Visits
On a Wee Highland Daunder 16th-18th June, 2019 By Cherry Allan Day 1. Â 8.15am on this rather cool, dull summer morning found a group of DHS members, 26 in all, leave the Glen Car Park with driver Martin behind the wheel of our comfortable Bay Travel coach, and head...
by Robin Thompson | 8 Jul 2019 | Articles
Jean Barclay tells us how the elderly, former handloom weavers of Dunfermline were treated to an annual outing. Hundreds of men and women were taken by fleets of horse drawn carriages for visits to “big houses” around Fife. This fascinating article gives...
by Robin Thompson | 18 May 2019 | Diary, Talks
19th September 2019 Dunfermline Historical Society, 7:30pm Professor Sir Geoff Palmer, “Scotland and the Slave Trade” Sir Godfrey Henry Palmer OBE is Professor Emeritus in the School of Life Sciences at Heriot-Watt University and a human rights activist....
by Robin Thompson | 19 Apr 2019 | Diary, Talks
16th May 2019 Dunfermline Historical Society, 7:30pm Sam Foster, Dunfermline Town Planning Sam is an architect in Dunfermline specialising in contemporary ecological architecture. As a member of “Friends of Dunfermline” he is involved in work to regenerate...
