Gardening in Victorian Dunfermline

by Sue Mowat In July 1854 the Fife Herald published a report on a Dunfermline horticultural show. Among its descriptions of the exhibits and the lists of prize-winners, the report commented that : The Dunfermline amateur florists are reputed all around this district...

September 2018 Meeting

The first meeting of our new season will be held on Thursday 20th September 2018, at 7:30 pm, in the Abbey Church Halls. Jess Smith will present “The Story of the Travelling Folk”. Jess is the author of six published books on her culture as a Scottish...

Profaning the Sabbath

In the first of our new series drawn from the Dunfermline Parish Records, “Tales from the Kirk Session”, Jean Barclay provides us with a detailed  insight into how people lived in Dunfermline in the Seventeenth Century, and how the Church sought to stop...

More on Mrs More

In  March 2016  we published a “Did You Know” about Mrs More’s Seminary for Young Ladies in Cairneyhill. Earlier this year, the author, Elaine Campbell received an email from a descendant of one of the pupils, containing further information about the...