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Displaying 71 - 80 of 2530 itemsMeeting: The saving of the City of Adelaide
… Jim Tildesley: The Saving of the City of Adelaide. The Society met … and the State of South Australia, which was run as a commercial operation, not taking convicts. She operated this … 14 en-suite First Class cabins. A varied cargo including clothes, medicines, books and sewing machines was carried to …
… John Burnett, a Cambridge graduate, who spent 26 years from 1986 working for the National Museum of … arose and reports mention happenings, but carry little detail about what people actually did before 1900. Festivity … Fenton, a noted linguist, in the 1950s had the skills to compare how people lived and went about their daily lives in …
Meeting: European Drove Roads
… she travelled in stages from Skye to Smithfield Market, London, on horseback. This time her subject was European … In Spain 1% of the surface area of the country is devoted to droving, past and present, and covers 125,000 km, … to employ two or three staff to check on drove roads and compile documentation to ensure that drove roads are …
… The Castles of Dumfries and Galloway in Danger was the subject on which Dr Janet Brennan, … History and Antiquarian Society. Her qualifications for undertaking the subject are of consequence, as she and her … restoration project of their own in the region. The company was captivated from the very outset by her engaging …
… Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society held its AGM … 2014. The speaker was Iain Macintyre MD, FRCSEd, President-elect of the British Society of the History of … wide excision for cancer, a treatment that would later become widely accepted. His results for the management of head …
Meeting: Letterpress Printing
… The thirty-one members of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society who braved the … journey through the history of printing by Mac Creedon, founder of Solway Offset. He began his career as a printer in 1955 when he became an apprentice compositor at Dinwiddie's. At that time, there were five …
Meeting: The Scottish Regional Chair
… Scottish Regional Chair was the subject of the latest talk delivered to Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society. Dave … a change of direction led him into studying the design and composition of Scottish furniture, especially the chair, …
Meeting: Carrifran Wildwood and beyond!
… Philip Ashmole (Trustee, Borders Forest Trust): Carrifran Wildwood and Beyond Dr Ashmole … grazing animals, stood out and showed that trees could flourish there. In 1993 a day conference was held entitled … Lottery and other sources, with the Wildwood Group becoming a devolved and volunteer-led part of BFT. In 1996 …
… Peter began by explaining that farmsteads have been deserted throughout history, sometimes being rebuilt on the … came across such sites by accident during his work as an ecologist, but has subsequently searched them out and has … personal names. Peter then described some of the structures common to the sites, including long houses shared by people …
… Adrian Cox presented his lecture on his community-based archaeological survey and dig at Lochmaben Castle at Dumfries Baptist Church Centre. The dig was intended to get a sense of the condition of the archaeological …