“You're most ambitious to succeed, self-reliant, born to lead. Your courage all can depend upon. Your boundless energy spurs you on. You have an argumentative mind and to suspicion you're inclined.” Scorpio
“You're most ambitious to succeed, self-reliant, born to lead. Your courage all can depend upon. Your boundless energy spurs you on. You have an argumentative mind and to suspicion you're inclined.” Scorpio
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‘The O’Connors, the MacDonalds and Franco-Scottish politics, c. 1540-60’: DunNETt lecture livestream
DunNETt Lecture 3 ‘The O’Connors, the MacDonalds and Franco-Scottish politics, c. 1540-60’ by Dr David Heffernan was lecture 3 in our programme of online talks. The talk is available on YouTube and in our Library. Dr Heffernan is a historian of Tudor and Stuart Ireland. He has published numerous books and many articles, including work […]
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Posted onWhispering Gallery 167 Out Now
Whispering Gallery 167 It’s in the post! Whispering Gallery is the quarterly magazine published by the Dorothy Dunnett Society exclusively for Society members. In addition to updating members on the work of the Society and its volunteers, issues feature readers’ articles and ideas about Dunnett’s characters, and about the themes of the books, the culture of […]
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Summer Dunnett Day 2025
Summer Dunnett Day 2015 We held our Summer Dunnett Day on 21st June 2025. This was held in Leicester, in England’s East Midlands, the burial place of Richard III, and a historic town in its own right. It was a highly enjoyable and interesting day, and included time to visit Leicester Cathedral and the Richard III […]
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Posted onDorothy Dunnett Society Weekend 2025
Dorothy Dunnett Society Weekend 2025 Friday 25th – Sunday 27th April in Dumfries, Scotland. We had a thoroughly enjoyable weekend at a new venue, having decided to move our regular weekend out of Edinburgh. Easterbrook Hall in Dumfries provided an excellent venue for our activities. The programme follows the usual pattern: an informal welcome meal […]
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‘The Influence of Marko Marulić on 16th-Century European Intellectual Life’: DunNETt lecture livestream
DunNET Lecture 2 ‘The Influence of Marko Marulić on 16th-Century European Intellectual Life’ by Domagoj Krpan was lecture 2 in our programme of online talks. The talk is available on YouTube below and in our library here. Domagoj Krpan is a Croatian historian and philosopher. He is enrolled as a PhD researcher in the field […]
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International Dorothy Dunnett Day 2024
The fourteenth IDDD was held on Saturday 9th November 2024! Twenty-two events took place around the world, in person and virtually, with readers raising a glass to Dorothy Dunnett at 1:00 pm local time. Contact iddd@ddsoc.org for information about future events near you.
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‘Musical Diplomacy on the Global Stage: Dallam’s Organ and Lymond’s Spinet’: DunNETt lecture livestream
DunNETt Lecture 1 ‘Musical Diplomacy on the Global Stage: Dallam’s Organ and Lymond’s Spinet’ by Dr Jennifer L. Wood was Lecture 1 in our programme of online talks. Find more about the online lecture programme here. This fascinating lecture compares the real life experience of Thomas Dallam in taking a self-playing decorative organ from Elizabethan […]
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Dunnett Weekend 2024
Our Dunnett Weekend 2024 took place in Edinburgh from Friday 26th to Sunday 28th April 2024. The programme included a Welcome Meal; talks by distinguished guest speakers Dr Anna Groundwater on Renaissance Scotland in the time of Niccolò and Lymond, Dr James Wade on Hugh Miller: Folklore Hunterand Dr Bryony Coombs on In search of […]
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Posted onWhispering Gallery 160 Out Now
Whispering Gallery 160 This issue was sent out to Dorothy Dunnett Society members in November 2023. Dunnett’s depiction of animals in her books is the subject of the opening article in this December issue of Whispering Gallery. A reader discusses the way the treatment of animals reveals the true nature of characters in the text; how […]
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Posted onDorothy Dunnett Society and University of the Highlands and Islands launch new research grant in history, politics, culture, and religion
Dorothy Dunnett Centenary Awards Edinburgh 25th August 2023The Dorothy Dunnett Society and the University of the Highlands and Islands have announced two new annual grants for research in history, politics, culture, or religion in the 11th, 15th, and 16th centuries. The grants will be known as the Dorothy Dunnett Centenary Awards and aim to continue […]
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Members Offer: A Map of Lymond’s Scotland!
Once upon a time (ok, the mid 1970s) a very talented Dunnett reader, Audrey Hutchison, produced this wondrous map of Scotland. It features many of the locations of particular significance in The Lymond Chronicles. For many years it was displayed in Dorothy Dunnett’s writing studio in Edinburgh. As part of the Centenary celebrations, and by […]
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Dorothy Dunnett Centenary Conference 2023
The Dorothy Dunnett Centenary Conference 2023 This extra special was held in Edinburgh from Thursday 20th to Friday 21st April 2023 to celebrate the 100th year since Dorothy Dunnett’s birth. The theme of the two-day event was Understanding Diversity in the 15th and 16th Centuries. Our guest speakers provided papers on the following subjects: Dr […]