Introducing the Falkland Society
The Falkland Society is a registered charity, which aims to promote knowledge and understanding of the
archaeological, architectural, ecological, historic and artistic heritage, past and present,
of Falkland and its wider context in Fife and Scotland. The Society's current Committee and Office Bearers (listed on
our Contact page) were elected
or re-elected at our AGM on 14 May.
We always need new members, to fund our events and publications. Please
download a membership form
and return it to us with your subscription (online payments
preferred).
Next meeting
Our next meeting will be at 7 p.m. on Wednesday
14 October, when Dr Peter Burman, architectural
historian and Chair of the Falkland Society until August 2026, will talk about
Sacred Places, working through art in
Scotland's churches from the middle ages to the present day
Flyer to follow.
This will be a hybrid meeting: online via Zoom, and in person in the Craig
Room, Falkland
Parish Church. To attend online you'll need the Zoom link,
sent out in our May Newsletter. If you're not on the mailing list for our
Newsletters, just sign up on our
Contact page. All welcome, no charge, donations encouraged.
Previous meeting
Wednesday
9 September, when Joe Fitzpatrick, Chair of the
Falkland Stewardship Trust, spoke about recent
archaeological discoveries on the East Lomond Hill.
See
the flyer for full details.
Unfortunately, for technical reasons there is no recording available of
this event.
Online resources
Almost all our online and hybrid meetings have been
recorded: our Previous events page
lists the speakers and their subjects, and links so you can see and hear the
recordings.
All our previous Newsletters back to December 2018
can be viewed from our Newsletters page.
The Falkland Wiki – www.falkland.wiki
– is an online encyclopaedia about Falkland and its historic buildings.
Created following our listed buildings survey in
August 2020, it is now a resource that anyone can sign up to edit.
Our Historic Falkland website –
www. historicfalkland.scot –
has a variety of resources about the history of our town, and Historic Images of Falkland – www.historicfalkland.com – has pictures from the Society's photo archive.
Publications
In August we published Falkland: A Guide to
the Historic Buildings, replacing our Falkland Guide, first published in 1988, now
enlarged and in
full colour, with a striking new design by Elizabeth Jackson and rewritten
text by Ross Burgess. More information
here, or
you can download an order form.
Our Publications page has details of
other books, including our best-selling Falkland and its People 1901–1913,
published December 2020. A fascinating glimpse of social history in an
age which seems both familiar and yet in many ways rather alien, and our Publications Sub-committee is working hard on a companion volume: a major
reworking of our existing book on the
Victorian era (1837–1900).
About Falkland
Falkland is an historic village and former Royal Burgh, in Fife in central Scotland.
Some links to further information
about the village.
