by Robin Thompson | 1 May 2019 | Uncategorized
Those who attended our April 2019 talk “Quite Happy – The Diary of James Fyffe, Cattle Dealer, 1836 – 1840” presented by Prof. Richard Oram, will remember that Richard pointed out that the diary itself is available on line from Abertay...
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...
by Robin Thompson | 9 Apr 2019 | Uncategorized
When writing the article about Mary Thomson and the Female Industrial School, a great deal of searching was done to try and find a photograph of Mary or some of her pupils but with no success. This photograph was found in the Journal Almanac 1913, a copy of which is...
by Robin Thompson | 27 Mar 2019 | Articles, Kirk Session
Tales from the Kirk Session by Dr. Jean Barclay The Elder at the Plate by H C Preston In the early 1720s the Dunfermline kirk session consisted of the two ministers and 25 elders who were subject each year to ‘privy censure’ to ensure they were ‘circumspect in their...
by Robin Thompson | 23 Mar 2019 | Diary, Talks
18th April 2019 Dunfermline Historical Society, 7:30 pm Prof. Richard Oram, “Quite Happy – The Diary of James Fyffe a Cattle Dealer 1836 – 40” Professor Oram is Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Medieval and...
