January 2020 Meeting

16th January Dunfermline Historical Society presents Prof. Gerard Carruthers “Burns, Fakery and Forgery” Professor Carruthers FRSE is Francis Hutcheson Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow, General Editor of the Oxford University...

Lilliehill Fire-Clay and Terra-Cotta Works

Dunfermline’s Industrial Past. This series shows how in the 19th and early 20th Centuries, Dunfermline, like many towns of a similar size, had manufacturing businesses of all types to support the local economy. The Lindsay business produced a wide range of...

DHS Christmas Members Night 2019

12th December 2019 This year, the entertainment at our members only Christmas Evening will be provided by “Kinrick”. Fine songs, great craic and a whole music shop of instruments ! Kinrick perform traditional, contemporary and self-penned songs as a duo,...

November 2019 Meeting

Unfortunately, due to unexpected and unavoidable work commitments at Newcastle University, Dr Annie Tindley is unable to present her talk on Andrew Carnegie to the Dunfermline Historical Society as planned. Annie hopes to be able to re-arrange her talk to us for next...

Walter Scott’s Abbey Haul

Many of you will have visited Abbotsford House near Melrose, extravagantly built and furnished by Sir Walter Scott. But did you know that much of the ancient wooden panelling was “salvaged” from the old Dunfermline Abbey Church, when the new church was...