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...
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...
