11 September
The Chapel Royal, Falkland Palace, KY15 7BY
Dr Peter Burman,
Why Orkney matters.
Peter Burman is Chair of the Falkland Society, an art and
architectural historian with a passion for traditional
craftsmanship. He has been visiting the Orcadian islands regularly for
over forty years.
More
about Peter's talk (PDF file)
This meeting also included the Society's Annual General Meeting.
see
the Minutes of the AGM (PDF file)
9 October
The Chapel Royal, Falkland Palace, KY15 7BY
Scott McIntosh,
Steel wheels and iron rails.
Scott McIntosh is a tramway and railway developer and engineer
with experience and knowledge of railways at home and abroad. He is a
resident of Falkland, a Community Councillor and Secretary of the
Community Council.
More
about Scott's talk (PDF file)
20 November
The Chapel Royal, Falkland Palace, KY15 7BY
Bryan Dickson,The Hill House –
conservation challenges of a modern masterpiece.
Bryan Dickson is Head of Buildings Conservation (Policy) at the National Trust for Scotland.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Hill House (1903) has been beset by problems owing to the nature
of the materials chosen, and especially a cement-based harling.
Currently it is covered by an immense netted ‘cage’ which is enabling the house to ‘dry out’
and provides visitors with a unique perspective on the house.
More
about Bryan's talk (PDF file)
11 December
The Chapel Royal, Falkland Palace, KY15 7BY
Joe FitzPatrick,
East Lomond Hill – revealing a long-lost
archaeological settlement.
Joe Fitzpatrick is a trustee of the Falkland Stewardship Trust and
the Board Director of FST who leads on the archaeological programme. He
commissioned and directed both the 2019 and the 2017 East Lomond Hill
projects.
More
about Joe's talk (PDF file)
8 January 2020
The Craig Room, Falkland Parish Church, KY15 7BU
Professor David Munro, The Smith Anderson
Story: Five generations of a Fife family firm.
David Munro has been
researching and writing a book about the Smith Anderson firm which was for so long
part of Falkland’s history. He will be bringing copies of the book
for sale.
More
about David's talk (PDF file)
12 February
The Chapel Royal, Falkland Palace, KY15 7BY
Dr Nicola Small, Jacobite Clans
and their Stories.
A lecture arising from Dr Small’s exhibition at Perth Museum during summer and autumn 2019
on Jacobite Clans. Nicky Small is Local History Officer at Culture Perth and Kinross,
the charity responsible for cultural institutions and their activities in Perth and Kinross
More
about Nicola's talk (PDF file)
March to May - meetings suspended
Because of Coronavirus, our meetings were suspended from
March onwards, resuming with online meetings from June onwards.
Of the meetings had had to be cancelled, Marietta Crichton
Stuart hopes to give her talk on her ancestor the third Marquess of
Bute (more
about her proposed talk - PDF file) when live meetings are able to
recommence, and the talks by Nick Boyes and David F. Wilson were rescheduled
for the 1920-21 season.
10 June
An online meeting via Zoom.
Dr Peter Burman, Padua - a conservation paradigm.
This lecture focuses on the astonishing wealth of history and culture to be found in the city of Padua.
It was severely damaged in WWII but responded to the challenges of post-war reconstruction with energy and enterprise.
It has one of the world's oldest universities and the world's oldest botanic garden (a World Heritage site in its own right).
The Cappella degli Scrovegni (also known as the 'Arena Chapel' because built on part of the site of the Roman Amphitheatre or Arena)
is one of Europe's most important cultural sites: a chapel frescoed from top to toe by Giotto, beautifully conserved, scrupulously maintained and imaginatively presented.
A fascinating and important aspect of modern tourism is the revival of the phenomenon of 'going on pilgrimage'.
The shrine of St Anthony of Padua, contained within the Basilica di Sant'Antonio, is a prime example,
thronged as it is day after day with pilgrims wishing to pray at the shrine and by visitors anxious to see its treasures of art and history
including a group of sculptures by Donatello.
As a cultural centre Padua is a little in the shadow of Venice, less than 40 minutes away by train or bus,
and Verona is perhaps better known to British cultural travellers. But the lecture will present evidence to show that this is a city
which has grasped both the significance of its past and the opportunities of its present.
View the recording of Peter's talk
(just over an hour)
15 July
An online meeting via Zoom.
Marietta Crichton Stuart,
House and Garden - the story of Falkland Palace and
garden and its people, 1800-1952
Marietta Crichton Stuart’s contributions to our lecture series are much
looked forward to. Formerly on the production staff of The Guardian, she has
devoted her energies since retirement to her work as Archivist to the family
and Estate papers and as a historian. She chairs the Friends Group of
Kennington Park, London. She is a trustee of the Falkland Stewardship Trust
and has an unparalleled knowledge of the House of Falkland, Falkland Palace
and the nineteenth and twentieth century histories of her family.
View the recording of
Marietta's talk (just over an hour)
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