by Robin Thompson | 8 Sep 2019 | Talks
Our talks programme for the new season is now finalised. We are delighted to start this session on 19th September with Prof. Sir Geoff Palmer, who will present “Scotland and the Slave Trade”. The programme continues until 21st May next year concluding with...
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 | 18 May 2019 | Uncategorized
Sunday 16th to Tuesday 18th June 2019 Full report, with photos, now available at “On a Wee Highland Daunder”. This year’s trip will be a two night visit to the Highlands, based at the Coylumbridge Hotel, near Aviemore. We will set off at 8:15 am from...
