by Robin Thompson | 6 Feb 2025 | Diary
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...
by Robin Thompson | 8 Jul 2019 | Articles
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...
by Robin Thompson | 11 Jan 2017 | Did You Know?
Dippy the Dinosaur and Andrew Carnegie by Dr. Jean Barclay DID YOU KNOW… that there is a vital link between Dippy the Dinosaur and Andrew Carnegie? Dippy the dinosaur has been much in the news lately because, having been a scene stealer at the Natural...
