Carnegie
Carnegie Lectures 2024-2025
Wednesday 19/3/25
Serious Minds
This Lecture is now sold out
Lord Bruce
The selection of trustees to oversee the Trust for the Universities of Scotland in 1901 revealed the handiwork of Andrew Carnegie. He assembled a board which was formed principally of the leading Scots-born politicians of their generation. All had served – or would serve – as cabinet ministers. One had already served as prime minister, while a further three would serve their country in this office. Two served as chancellor of the exchequer. All would be appointed as privy councillors. Serious Minds tells the story of a single act of philanthropy which changed the face of higher education in Scotland, forever, extending access and opportunity on an unimaginable scale.
This is the fourth of the Carnegie Lectures to be presented, in the Canmore Room, at the Dunfermline Carnegie Library and Galleries over the winter season.
Doors open at 6pm and the lecture starts at 6:30.
Tickets (£5),are available at the venue or via https://www.onfife.com/events/?types=&venues=dunfermline-carnegie-library-galleries&dates=
Future lectures.
24th April 2025, Carnegie and Scotland, Prof Ewen Cameron.
An Edwardian Day Out
In “The Auld Weavers’ Drive” 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 us all sorts of insights into life and social attitudes one hundred years ago.
Andrew Carnegie and the Dinosaur
Did You Know…
..that there is a vital link between Dippy the Dinosaur and Andrew Carnegie?
In “Dippy the Dinosaur and Andrew Carnegie“, Jean Barclay tells us about the famous replica of a Diplodocus skeleton in the Natural History Museum, and how it was created thanks to Andrew Carnegie.
From January to May 2019, it will be on show at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow.