by Robin Thompson | 8 Feb 2017 | Articles
We all know that during the reformation, the Abbeys were abolished. Much of Dunfermline Abbey is now ruined, but the Church, of course, is still in use. But what about the people involved? What Happened to the Monks by Sue Mowat David Aitken, the Dean of Guild,...
by Robin Thompson | 5 Nov 2016 | Articles
By George Robertson It is generally accepted Margaret, Queen, later Saint, of Scotland, was born in Hungary around 1046. Her father, Edward the Exile, became heir to the English throne of Edward the Confessor, who was half brother to her grandfather Edmund...
by Robin Thompson | 11 Oct 2016 | Articles
In the following article Sue Mowat corrects some common misconceptions about an unusual small building in the Abbey churchyard and also tells of the opening of the first museum in Dunfermline. The Abbey Graveyard Toolhouse by Sue Mowat Near the east gate of the...
by Robin Thompson | 19 Sep 2016 | Articles
By Sue Mowat Guns were a hot topic in Dunfermline in the summer of 1857, more specifically the town’s newly-acquired trophy of the recent Crimean War. Among the Russian armaments captured at the fall of Sevastopol had been more than 300 cannon from the fort of Redan....
by Robin Thompson | 25 Apr 2016 | Articles
by Dr. Jean Barclay DID YOU KNOW… Dunfermline’s new Abbey Church was nearly built south, not east, of the old nave? Until the later 16th century, Dunfermline’s fine abbey church (built in the 12th -13th century) consisted of a conventual...
