Have you checked out our website lately? Keep up-to-date with all the society's news & events here! salinedistrictheritagesociety.wordpress.com 🔎📃 #Fife #heritage #museum

Reposting from Kirklands Garden, Saline to say a huge thank you to all who attended & supported the Society. Such positive comments about both garden & home-baking! 🌼🍰😊 #Fife Further info on Kirklands Garden: kirklandsgarden.co.uk

Wonderful afternoon spent at the Wardlaw museum in St Andrews as part of the Local History Month initiative! Thanks to all who stopped by to learn more about our Society🙂 #Fife #heritage

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was born #OTD, 22 May, at 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh – a 🎂 🧵 On BBC Sounds: Bridget Kendall explores Conan Doyle’s life & work – the doctor & literary superstar who changed #CrimeFiction forever 💙📚 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

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Busy weekend ahead! On Saturday we'll be attending the Local History Day @ Wardlaw Museum, St Andrews. Then Sunday sees us helping at Kirklands House Open Gardens in Saline. Pop along & say hello👋 #Fife #heritage

Very many thanks to all who came to our final talk of series last night on the Ordnance Survey by Ian Archibald, including villagers who had connections with the organisation. Our new speaker events season begins in September — see everyone then! #Fife #heritage

Robert Louis Stevenson & Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne married #OTD, 19 May, 1880. In this article, Prof @penfielding.bsky.social explores the dangerous collaboration between RLS & his wife: granting female agency on the page & in life #C19 #literature 💙📚 1/3 dangerouswomenproject.org/2017/01/06/a...

Final reminder that our last talk of the season takes place tomorrow in Saline Church Hall from 7pm — see you then! #Fife #heritage #maps 🧭

Reviving the Trinity Stones is a two-year project tracking down missing stones from one of Edinburgh's finest medieval buildings - Trinity Collegiate Church. Free exhibition, talks and walks. Museum of #Edinburgh. #skystorians #churches #Scotland www.revivingthetrinitystones.co.uk/exhibition

Saline Kirk Development Group held a focus group today to hear views on the future of Saline Kirk & possibility of community buyout @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social 📌Join us for the next one! Saturday 13th June from 2pm at Saline Golf Club [email protected] for info #Fife #heritage

A Kingdom in Perplexity: Voices of 17th-Century Scotland 11 June @glasgow.ac.uk – free A one-day symposium offering a fresh, supportive, cross-disciplinary research environment for those interested in any aspect of #earlymodern Scottish studies #C17th www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-kingdom-...

The superb little chapel of St Fillan's at the head of Strathearn, where Dál Riata and Pictland meet. The post-medieval chapel and burial ground likely have much earlier predecessors, then as now in the shadow of the mighty Pictish hillfort of Dundurn www.trove.scot/place/24872?...

🌼 Kirklands Garden in Saline will be open on Sunday 24th May in support of our Society. Pop along between 2pm—5pm for a magical afternoon of plants, teas & homebaking. #Fife #gardens #heritage

📍 Local History Day @ Wardlaw Museum on Saturday 23rd May - See you there! #Fife #museums

Dundee Book Festival 2026 19–21 June Tickets are now on sale for the 2026 Dundee Book Festival, a celebration of Scotland’s writers, storytellers, & people dundeebookfestival.com

Slàinte! 🥃 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The #MiningLandscapes team were up at the Mining Museum last week hosting a ‘community ambassador’ aka super volunteers event. The museum’s Education Officer Vikki explored working with children and our project geologist Katie did her session live on using #geology for family fun.

A reminder that our final talk of the season is coming up soon. Join us on the evening of Wednesday 20th May for a whistle-stop tour of all things Ordnance Survey!🧭🗺️ #Fife #heritage #maps

🎉Happy 100th birthday to Sir David Attenborough! 🎉The legendary broadcaster, natural historian and writer became an Honorary Fellow of the Society in 2007 and we're delighted to send him our best wishes for this milestone celebration! 🎂

Join us for the EHS Summer Conference! Whether you’re a long-time member of our Society or joining us for the first time, this is a great opportunity to connect with other #historians who share a love of #churchhistory. 📅 13-17 July 2026 📍 Royal Holloway, University of London shorturl.at/5Gi0i

Did someone in your family serve in the Merchant Navy? Here's how you can trace them in the surviving crew lists ⚓ www.whodoyouthinkyouaremaga...

📍 May's Speaker Event #Fife #heritage 🗺️🧭

#OTD in 1938, the gates opened to The Empire Exhibition, in Bellahouston Park - two days later, King George VI would carry out the official opening. This view - taken from the top of Tait's Tower - looking down towards Mosspark Boulevard.

*Free event tomorrow!* - Step Back Into Science, Monday 4 May, 11am-3pm: 👉 kinneil.org.uk/2026/04/29/s... From #FalkirkCouncil for Falkirk Science Festival - see poster for organisaitons taking part, plus #HistoricScotland's Kinneil House open free!

William Soutar & Walter Scott @ Hame in Perth 2 May, Perth. Free (booking required) Marking the birthday of William Soutar, & fundraising for the restoration of Perth’s statue of Scott. Includes a talk by Tom Hubbard on “Walter Scott, William Soutar & Europe” www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/william-so...

SHOOT! Scotland's Makar Peter Mackay has launched a callout for a collective poem by the Tartan Army & the people of Scotland to send the national men's team on their way to the 2026 World Cup. You can submit 1 or 2 lines via the SPL website below. www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/scotland-wor...

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The blossom in the Meadows, #Edinburgh, yesterday afternoon. 🌸

Saline Kirk Development Group would love to hear your views! Email: [email protected] to join a focus group & put across your ideas & comments... #Fife #heritage

📌 AGM 2026 #Fife #heritage

Happy #NationalTeaDay! 🫖 Here's a wonderful photo of a tea party held on board the French hospital Ship, the Sphinx, as a thank you for nurses from the Scottish Women's Hospitals. #WW1 #HistNursing

Cultybraggan Camp is considered to be one of the best preserved purpose-built WWII Prisoner of War camps in Britain. Now owned by Comrie Development Trust, it is a thriving multi-use community resource, with holiday lets, business units, a café, museum & more. #AHF50 👇 ahfund.org.uk/anniversary/...

Environmental Scotland IV: Garry Mackenzie & Coinneach Maclean 20 April, free online In this @iassl.bsky.social webinar, writers Garry Mackenzie & Coinneach Maclean will discuss their works concerning Scotland & the environment www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/environmen...

Today is #NationalHangingOutDay #HangingOutDay. Bishop's Yard, bleaching or drying green in Dunblane is area of grass beneath former Bishop's Palace by River Allan for inhabitants to use for bleaching their linen

If you want to know how to use #geology to turn post-industrial landscapes into places of family fun there is time to book a place on our free webinar. For link and more info nip to 👉 www.mining-landscapes.org/news #MiningHeritage #MiningLandscapes

Join us tomorrow evening for a treat of a talk by Rona Moody on Scottish stained glass✨ #Fife #heritage #stainedglass

The Museums Change Lives Awards 2026 are officially open for nominations 🏆 In an increasingly polarised world, which museums are cutting through the noise to deliver social impact and show up for their communities? Scroll 👇

Join us on Wednesday for all-things Scottish stained glass! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✨ #Fife #heritage #stainedglass

'Scotland For The Holidays' railway poster, 1939.

🎪 Prof. Steve and team prep SATURDAY'S free family Spring Archaeology Open Day ⛏️ Will we see you tomorrow for fun, games, archaeology and natural heritage? ⏰️ Saturday 11th of April, 11am-4pm Thanks to The National Lottery Heritage Fund Scotland and Glasgow City Heritage Trust for funding!

Another April and another day with all the seasons in it, with lapwings falling out of sunlight into rain… —James Aitchison, “Landscape with Lapwings” in The Edinburgh Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry, @edinburghup.bsky.social 2005 #poem #poetry edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edi...

#EasterDay #StainedGlassSunday By Stephen Adam and Son, in Killin Church, Stirlingshire.

We're having a FREE open day on Saturday 11th of April, 11am-4pm. There will be archaeological survey work, TCV Scotland on biodiversity at Govan Old, crafting for kids, and a Lego competition! Thank you to our funders The National Lottery Heritage Fund Scotland and Glasgow City Heritage Trust.

Here's our wee Session House Museum in Saline, West Fife, which hosts the society's archive during the Summer 🌞 📃 @araukie.bsky.social @arascot.bsky.social #Fife #heritage #Archive30 #ArchiveBuildings

Come along to Saline Church Hall from 7pm on Wednesday 15th April to hear Rona Moody speak on her specialist subject — beautiful Scottish stained glass! We have our own stunning east window by artist John Blyth (1915—99) featuring his signature bee 🎨 🐝 #Fife #heritage #stainedglass

📍 April's Speaker Event #Fife #Heritage

Visit Dunblane Museum special exhibition for April: Magic and Mystery - drawings by Diana Hand 🚶 Visit Dunblane Museum 🗓️ Open Monday-Saturday 🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm) 🆓 Free admission – donations invited

'Here, Major Tom! Back it up a wee bit, son, till we see if your spaceship will fit through the big arch?' With the Artemis II Moon mission - who remembers the time, in 1971, when the Apollo X capsule splashed down at the old Transport Museum, in Albert Drive? Pic: Daily Record