Professor Dauvit Broun, chair of Scottish History at the University of Glasgow, is our guest speaker. Professor Broun is a specialist in medieval Scottish and Celtic Studies.
Tickets are £10, and can be purchased from the church office, after the service on a Sunday, or on www.trybooking.com/uk/FJBK.
The Abbey Church Halls, Dunfermline
The talk will give an overview of the Commission and show examples of cemeteries and memorials all over the world, and from both world wars. It will also discuss how they are maintained and conserved today.
“It’s an amazing project, the Imperial War Graves Commission, it faced an impossible job to try and give some dignity and some sense of order to the meaningless and vast killing of the First World War”, Dan Cruikshank, Iconic War Memorials
Dave is a volunteer and researcher with the commission and has won a Spotlight Award for his work with them.
Markinch Heritage Group
Researching Historic Houses and Estates in Fife and beyond …
by
Tom Addyman
A specialist’s insight into their architecture and archaeology.
Thursday 6th November 2025 at 7pm
252 Memorial Hall, Betson Street, Markinch
(£2 entrance fee for non-members – membership fees now due!)
Bruce Jamieson will present ‘The Resurrectionists’
Bruce is a graduate of The University of Edinburgh who taught history for 35 years. He is the author of “Old North Berwick” and “Linlithgow Through Time” amongst other books. He now gives talks on Scottish History and leads walking tours. Bruce previously visited us in March last season when he talked on the Disaster at Darien.
We are delighted to have him return, his talk will start at 7:30 pm and, as always, visitors will be made very welcome.