The final talk in the DDHS 2024/2025 season was given by DDHS Secretary Pauline Smeed, with a good turnout on the night…
Category: Royal Charter
History in Lockdown: Postscript
I started this project as a follow up to the start of the spread of the Corona virus to tell a new…
Dunbar in Lockdown
Dunbar in Lockdown– a personal perspective reflecting on the effect of Covid-19 on Dunbar. To find a precedent for the current lockdown, one should go back to the…
Clan Dunbar International
Clan Dunbar International is a group which was set up in the United States in 1977 by Robert Bruce Dunbar. It was…
Lest We Forget
As the centenary of the Great War approached interest in the whole story of the war increased. Programmes on television meant that…
Twinning
The seeds which grew into the Jumelage go back a long time. Andre Monrocher had studied in Edinburgh and his wife Danielle…
Drama at Dunbar Grammar School
I came to Dunbar Grammar School as Principal Teacher of History in October 1966. During my time at Hawick High School and…
The 25pdr gun at Dunbar
The background. There is a long tradition of the presence of artillery in Dunbar 34 Battery of 16 Field Brigade [later regiment]…
Dunbar and John Muir
John Muir was born in Dunbar on 21st April 1838. The family emigrated to America in 1849. He married Louisa Wanda Strentzel…
Dunbar Community Council Awards
The Bowe Cup This cup was handed over to the New Community Council in 1975 by Dunbar Burgh Council in whose keeping…