Music and performance are a key part of Dunfermline’s story. Dunfermline has a recent history of a thriving music scene, being one of the main centres of the folk music revival in the 1960s and the birthplace of successful bands such as The Skids, Big Country and...
Andrew Carnegie left Dunfermline as a small boy, but as one of the world’s most successful businessmen he never forgot his birthplace. Andrew Carnegie, the nineteenth century industrialist and philanthropist, was born in Dunfermline in 1835. Although he emigrated to...
Dunfermline people made some of the best linen in the world, building fortunes and an international reputation. From the eighteenth century Dunfermline became firmly associated with linen weaving, first with handlooms in domestic dwellings and later with a series of...
Dunfermline has been a centre of bustle and life for almost 900 years, a marketplace with its own distinctive traditions. Dunfermline was established as a royal burgh by King David I in the 1100s, and for hundreds of years the city had distinctive rights and...
People have been coming to Dunfermline on pilgrimage for over 700 years, drawn by the shrine and the inspiring story of St Margaret. In 1250 Queen Margaret was canonised and a new shrine built as an extension to the Abbey to house her relics. This firmly established...
Dunfermline was a place of great symbolism for Scotland’s medieval royalty, where kings, queens, princes and princesses were born and buried. From the reign of Malcolm Canmore (1031 - 93) Dunfermline was an important royal centre, with Queen Margaret establishing a...