| 17th September | Kate Anderson | ||||||||||||||||
| Reframing King James VI & I | |||||||||||||||||
| 15th October | Tom Addyman | ||||||||||||||||
| Researching Historic Houses and Estates in Fife and Beyond | |||||||||||||||||
| 19th November | Nicola Dibley | ||||||||||||||||
| Ella Grew-The Japanese Garden, Cowden | |||||||||||||||||
| 10th December | DHS Social Evening | ||||||||||||||||
| An Evening of Music and Song | |||||||||||||||||
| 14th January | Dr David Caldwell | ||||||||||||||||
| Note this is the 2nd Thursday of Jan. | The Lewis Chessmen | ||||||||||||||||
| 18th February | AGM; Ian Chalmers | ||||||||||||||||
| Slavery in Scottish Mines, 1606- 1799 | |||||||||||||||||
| 18th March | Sharron McColl | ||||||||||||||||
| The Unsung Heroes and Faces Behind the Man, Carnegie | |||||||||||||||||
| 15th April | Eddie Taylor | ||||||||||||||||
| West Fife Railways | |||||||||||||||||
| 20th May | Dr. Amy Blakeway | ||||||||||||||||
| The Women of the Wars of Mary Queen of Scots’ Childhood | |||||||||||||||||
The Buildings At Risk Register, Turning Negative to Positive
Thursday 19th April 2022
7:30pm (doors open 7pm)
Abbey Church Halls, Abbey Park Place, Dunfermline
Monica Warwick
At Dunfermline Historical Society's April meeting Monica Warwick will talk on the Buildings at Risk Register, Turning Negative to Positive. Monica, of Historic Environment Scotland, works at The Engine Shed in Stirling, Scotland's Building Conservation Centre. She is a member of the Technical Outreach and Education team and has interests in traditional materials and skills.
DHS March 2022 Meeting
17th March 2022
Abbey Church Halls, Abbey Park Place
7:30pm, doors open 7pm
Bonnie Prince Charlie
Roy Johnstone
Roy is a very popular speaker who has spoken to our society before. He has been fascinated by history all his life and, since retiring from a career in the law, has developed and presented a wide range of talks on many historical topics ranging from Mary, Queen of Scots to modern times. I'm sure many of you will remember Roy's excellent talk in 2018 on women pilots of the Second World War.
The talk will be preceded by a short AGM.
St Margaret and her Miracles
Thursday 17th February 2022
7:30 pm, doors open 7pm
Abbey Church Halls, Abbey Park Place, Dunfermline
After a two year gap in our talks programme we are delighted to announce that meetings will resume this month, at present for members only. Prof. Robert Bartlett will present "St Margaret and her Miracles".
Robert Bartlett, Emeritus Professor at the School of History in the University of St Andrews, is a distinguished medieval historian who has published widely on medieval frontiers and colonialism, the lives of saints and England between 1066 and 1300. He received the Wolfson History Prize for his book "The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change, 950-1350" and has written and presented several TV series including "The Normans" and "The Plantagenets".
Coronavirus – Message from the Chair
Dear Member,
I am writing to you to inform you that, due to rapidly escalating health concerns relating to
the spread of Coronavirus , the committee has decided to cancel all further meetings of the
2019/2020 session. We are sorry to have to make this decision but believe it to be in the
best interests of our members and the guest speakers. Our June trip to Thirlestane Castle
will be rescheduled for Spring 2021.
It is intended that the new 2020/2021 season will start, as normal, in September and our
50 th Anniversary dinner will go ahead on Thursday 15th October.
We will send out a letter about the new season, and information about tickets for the
dinner, a little earlier than usual, probably in July. Hopefully, by then, things should have
resolved and we will all be able to look forward to the autumn.
In the meantime, please stay well and we’ll see you all in September.
Best wishes,
Carolyn Thompson (Chair)
DHS March 2020 Meeting
19th March 2020 at 7:30pm
Unfortunately, due to the coronavirus outbreak, this meeting has been cancelled.
We will invite Dr Cook to visit us and present her talk at a future meeting.
Dr. Margaret Cook will present “History Meets Fiction in Border Brothers” in the Abbey Church Halls.
Margaret Cook was a consultant haematologist by profession; but later in life, also became a writer and free-lance journalist. She has written opinion and commentary pieces on social, political, medical and science matters, book reviews for most of the leading newspapers, and agony columns for the Observer, Woman’s Journal and Marie Claire. She has published four books, two non-fiction and two fiction.
“Border Brothers” is historical fiction, set in the Scottish Borders.
All welcome.