Guided Tour of Balgone House and Gardens

7th June 2025, 2.30 pm Society visit In the 20th century the house became ruinous but was lovingly restored as…

Public Talk by Dr James Herring

Visits Planned for 2025

Balgone House Saturday 7th June, 2 PM for 2.30 PM Balgone House is about 2 miles south east of North…

March 22nd Talk Changed

The talk planned for 22nd March is not cancelled it will instead be by Arran Johnston on the subject of…

March 2025 Lecture

The 1296 battle of Dunbarby Arran Johnston by Dr Sarah Laurenson Please note that the lecture by Dr Sarah Laurenson…

Proposed Field Name Recording Project for East Lothian

The Need Farmland in East Lothian is currently being lost to development, often of new housing. Consequentially the names of…

February 2025 Lecture

‘I suld put on my russet gowne, my reid kirtill, my hois of broun’ – the clothes and accoutrements of…

Stephen Bunyan MBE

29th Oct 1933 – 17th Dec 2024Memorial Service 17 Jan 2025St Anne’s Church Dunbar Stephen Bunyan MBE, our former President,…

Six New Articles – from Vol. XXXIII of the 2021 Transactions

You can now download volume XXXIII of the East Lothian Antiquarian transactions along with a complete set of every volume…

November Lecture – Catherine Hogg Blair (1872-1946)

The Society’s November lecture was an illustrated talk by Dr Hanita Ritchie, a Local History Officer for the ELC Library…