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Displaying 61 - 70 of 1885 items… When Professor David Munro, MBE, stepped down as director of the Royal … many contain, with the painstaking depiction of trees becoming increasingly common in the early nineteenth century. Drumlanrig Castle …
Meeting: Two talks by members
… and Galloway Royal Infirmary, found himself crossing a River Annan in Queensland’s Cape York Peninsula. Research … Sir Alexander Jardine. In 1835, John Jardine took a commission with the 1st Regiment of Dragoons, marrying two years later. In 1839, he sold his commission and sailed in the Dryade with his wife for …
… The revelations of teacups and taxes at a ruined farmstead on the … National Lottery Heritage Funding, Rathmell Archaeology was commissioned by Galloway Glens Landscape Partnership to deliver the Can You Dig It community archaeology project. After public consultation, …
… our forgotten local hero was the topic of the talk given by Brian Morrell of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, … and Antiquarian Society. Spitzbergen Barnacle Geese, having come close to extinction at 300 in the 1940s and now … rifle because of the threat of encounter with a polar bear. Compare that with the conditions later in the talk …
… The speaker, Penny Eley, Emeritus Professor of Medieval French at Sheffield University, described the background … the son of a Galloway peasant who became King of Lothian. Composed during the early years of the thirteenth century, … is found bound with other well-known works, yet only two complete copies survive today. Perhaps the biggest mystery …
… Rev Dr Ann Shukman came to live in Scotland twelve years ago. As a member of St John’s … had a son who became the heir to the British throne. The outcome of the so-called 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688–91 was …
… heard a fascinating James Williams Memorial Lecture given by Phil Abramson on the archaeological and cultural … good quality materials in a striking and architecturally accomplished Neo-Georgian style, to house 640 men. They did … on the now closed RAF Leconfield, a base for Fighter Command and then Bomber Command during the War. A recording …
… paper on Dr John Hutton and the Manse of Caerlaverock to Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and … manse where he discovered a stone in the garden wall, commemorating Hutton's construction of the manse of 1708, … Sidney. He then became the first royal physician. Hutton accompanied William III on his campaigns in Ireland and …
… & Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society were given an entertaining and enlightening lecture with stunning … and the Castle and Mill Lochs at Lochmaben. It has since become extinct at the last three sites, although not before … Habitat, Montane Grassland, has Woolly Fringe-moss ( Racomitrium lanuginosum ) and Heath Bedstraw ( Galium saxatile …
… was held at 7.30pm on Friday, 4 October, in their new venue, the Dumfries Baptist Church Centre in Gillbrae Road. … After the AGM the retiring President Dr Jeremy Brock gave his presidential lecture on a remote area in western … Aragon, Spain, where he has owned an old house for over 40 years. He explained that he wanted to embrace the …