by Robin Thompson | 20 Jan 2018 | Talks
15th February 2018 The DHS Annual General Meeting will take place this year at 7:30 pm, in the Abbey Church Hall and will be immediately followed by – “Women Pilots of World War II”, given by Roy Johnstone. Roy has been fascinated by history all his...
by Robin Thompson | 2 Jan 2018 | Articles
Shopping for Food and Drink in Victorian Dunfermline By Sue Mowat How different, how very different, was shopping in Dunfermline a century and a half ago! In 1861 there were more than 70 shops in the High Street alone – grocers, greengrocers, bakers, tobacconists,...
by Robin Thompson | 15 Dec 2017 | Diary, Talks
Thursday 18th January “Pictish Settlement, East Lomond Hill” Oliver O’Grady and Joe Fitzpatrick Anyone who watched “Digging for Britain” will have seen a little of this archaeological dig in the 6th December...
by Robin Thompson | 12 Dec 2017 | Articles, Did You Know?
Did you know… …about the Dunfermline links of the author of the Beveridge Report? by Dr. Jean Barclay The Second World War brought many changes, not least in Britain`s health and welfare services, changes in which the name of William Beveridge looms large. In 1941,...
by Robin Thompson | 10 Dec 2017 | Articles
Rev. RALPH ERSKINE (1685-1752) – SECESSIONIST MINISTER” By George Robertson Faith, without trouble or fighting, is a suspicious faith: For true faith is a fighting, wrestling faith. Ralph Erskine, 1733. There are two statues in Dunfermline which commemorate...
