Carnegie

Carnegie Lectures 2024-2025

25/11/24

This is the first in a series of five Carnegie Lectures to be presented at the Dunfermline Carnegie Library and Galleries over the winter season.

Future lectures.

30th Jan 2025. Andrew Carnegie, the Pinkerton Detectives and the Homestead Steelworks Dispute of 1892, Prof. Rhodri Jeffrey-Jones.

26th Feb 2025. Carnegie and Empire, Dr Fabian Hilfrich

19th March 2025, Serious Minds, Lord Bruce.

24th April 2025, Carnegie and Scotland, Prof Ewen Cameron.

Tickets are available at https://www.onfife.com/events/?types=&venues=dunfermline-carnegie-library-galleries&dates=

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.