The recording of Peter Burman's talk 'Stories of remembrance' is now available to view.
As a result of the coronavirus restrictions, our planned monthly meetings were suspended from March 2020 onwards. The season re-started from June, but with online meetings via Zoom. The new season started in September, again online. Almost all of the online meetings have been recorded.
Click on any of the dates below to see the recordings (most of which last about an hour or so).
8 November 2023: Peter Burman on 'Stories of Remembrance'
11 October 2023: Lily Barnes on 'Flooring the World'
13 September 2023: Sarah Brown on life at 10 Downing Street and her charity, Theirworld
14 June 2023: Ross Burgess on 'Reflections of the ancient world in Scotland'
12 April 2023: Tom Addyman on 'A tale of a few grottos: archaeology of Scottish garden buildings'
8 March 2023: Nic Boyes on 'Climate change action and historic buildings; old buildings / new roles'
8 February 2023: Arjun Shivaji Jain on 'The state of contemporary craftsmanship in India'.
11 January 2023: Tess Darwin on 'Through the eye of the needle: working with the grain of the Falkland landscape'.
14 December 2022: Amy Woodson-Boulton on 'The crisis of plastics and the pollution they cause'.
9 November 2022: Mary Contini on 'Friend or foe: a story of immigration'.
12 October 2022:'The wonders of Jupiter Artland' by the architect, Ben Tindall.
14 September 2022: 'Use them or lose them: Fife churches at risk' by our Chair, Peter Burman
15 June 2022: 'John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, Third Marquess of Bute, and his impact on Falkland and St Andrews' by his great-granddaughter, Marietta Crichton Stuart.
11 May 2022: Charles Dundas on 'Reviving the wild heart of Southern Scotland'.
13 April 2022: Ninian Stuart and Joe Fitzpatrick, 'The Unfolding future of the Falkland Estate'.
9 February 2022: Rory Young, sculptor and letter-cutter, talking about his life and work.
12 January 2022: Kieran Allan, 'The Tricolore and the Saltire', The story of the Italian community in Scotland.
15 December 2021: Josh Davie’s 2021 film Voices of Falkland, introduced by Ninian Stuart.
10 November 2021: Peter Burman on John Ruskin's Guild of St George.
13 October 2021: Fiona Fisher on traditional building skills.
9 June 2021: David F. Wilson, public artist.
12 May 2021: Alexandra Lotz, 'Horse Heritage'.
14 April 2021: Karen Dundas, 'Scottish Wall Paintings Conservators'.
10 March 2021: Tom Christian, 'Trees in the Landscape'.
10 February 2021: Marietta Crichton Stuart, 'Falkland and its People 1901-1913, some stories from the book'.
13 January 2021: Ross Burgess, 'Falkland's Historic Buildings'.
9 December 2020: Peter Burman, 'The challenges that threaten Venice' and the beauties of some of his favourite places.
11 November 2020: Nic Boyes, consultant stone conservator, 'The Temple of Decision and the Rosslyn Chapel'.
14 October 2020: Vanessa Stephen, freelance landcape architect, 'The history and monuments of the Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh'.
9 September 2020: The Society's Annual General Meeting, followed by a talk by the artist Peter Jones.
15 July 2020: Marietta Crichton Stuart, 'House and Garden - the story of Falkland Palace and garden and its people, 1800–1952'.
10 June 2020: Dr Peter Burman, 'Padua – a conservation paradigm'.