![History in Lockdown: Postscript](https://dunbarhistory.org.uk/files/2020/09/3-THE-TEA-PARTY-scaled-1-470x140.jpg)
I started this project as a follow up to the start of the spread of the Corona virus to tell a new generation in Dunbar…
![Dunbar in Lockdown](https://dunbarhistory.org.uk/files/2020/09/6-IN-ISOLATION-scaled-1-470x140.jpg)
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 winter of 1337/8…
![Clan Dunbar International](https://dunbarhistory.org.uk/files/2020/08/NUMBER-5-The-Group-2014-470x140.jpg)
Clan Dunbar International is a group which was set up in the United States in 1977 by Robert Bruce Dunbar. It was incorporated in the…
![Lest We Forget](https://dunbarhistory.org.uk/files/2020/08/NUMBER-9-wingate-and-the-bbs-470x140.jpg)
As the centenary of the Great War approached interest in the whole story of the war increased. Programmes on television meant that we were reliving…
![Twinning](https://dunbarhistory.org.uk/files/2020/08/Dunbar-Twinning-470x140.jpg)
The seeds which grew into the Jumelage go back a long time. Andre Monrocher had studied in Edinburgh and his wife Danielle had been an…
![Drama at Dunbar Grammar School](https://dunbarhistory.org.uk/files/2020/11/History-Pageant-1977-470x140.jpg)
I came to Dunbar Grammar School as Principal Teacher of History in October 1966. During my time at Hawick High School and at Galashiels Academy,…
![The 25pdr gun at Dunbar](https://dunbarhistory.org.uk/files/2020/07/02-handover-ceremony-2005-470x140.jpg)
The background. There is a long tradition of the presence of artillery in Dunbar 34 Battery of 16 Field Brigade [later regiment] was here before…
![Dunbar and John Muir](https://dunbarhistory.org.uk/files/2020/07/Muir-and-Roosevelt-1903.-Library-of-Congress-e1594548853772-470x140.jpg)
John Muir was born in Dunbar on 21st April 1838. The family emigrated to America in 1849. He married Louisa Wanda Strentzel in 1880 and…
![Dunbar Community Council Awards](https://dunbarhistory.org.uk/files/2020/07/presentation-of-the-Bowe-Cup-to-Sophie-Kaszuba-and-of-the-Community-Award-to-Elaine-O-Brien-in-2014-DSCF2107-470x140.jpg)
The Bowe Cup This cup was handed over to the New Community Council in 1975 by Dunbar Burgh Council in whose keeping it was. I…
![The Community Council](https://dunbarhistory.org.uk/files/2020/07/Molly-Keith-470x140.jpg)
The Local Government Act of 1973 made provision for the creation of Community Councils They were designed to act as a channel of local opinion…