by Robin Thompson | 7 Aug 2025 | Articles
Printers, Booksellers, Bookbinders and Stationers, 1780-1883 by Dr Jean Barclay The early 19th century saw a revolution in the art of printing as the wooden hand presses with moveable type that had been in use since Gutenberg and Caxton`s time in the 15th century...
by Robin Thompson | 3 Jul 2024 | Articles
Jean Barclay has been searching through the archives and has discovered an interesting article written in the 19th Century. “Proper decorum to be observed in the Church especially during Divine Service” by David Birrell gives us perhaps a different and...
by Robin Thompson | 3 Dec 2023 | Uncategorized
As many articles in our industrial and commercial series have shown, medium sized towns such as Dunfermline, supported all sorts of businesses and activities which have now long been centralised at a national or international level. To brewing, engineering, food...
by Robin Thompson | 7 Nov 2022 | Articles
During the Second World War, the newly formed BOAC continued flying civilian services to several countries, including neutral Portugal and Sweden. These flights could be of great importance to the war effort and of course, could be very hazardous. In “Captain...
by Robin Thompson | 22 Sep 2022 | Articles
In 1817 a young woman from Edinburgh was arrested in Halbeath, for “stealing” a child. In “The collier’s Bearer and the Stolen Child” Jean Barclay tells the tragic story of Janet Douglas, her crime and her harsh treatment by the...
