Donald Adamson

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Photographs and Documents relating to World War II

INTRODUCTION This section is concerned with photographs and documents which relate to the Second World War. In particular, it follows the progress of my father, John McLaren Adamson, through the war. He left Dunfermline High School in the summer of 1939. There was the possibility of a mathematics degree at Edinburgh University, but as the […]

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Photographs and Documents relating to the inter-war period

This section is dedicated to the period between 1918 and 1939. It shows both documents and photographs realting to the family. Whilst all sections of the family are covered, there is a particular emphasis on the lives of my grandparents, Douglas Thomson and Joan Thomson (nee Beck). They emigrated to the United States in the […]

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Accountancy

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Archaeology PhD thesis

Commercialisation, change and continuity: an archaeological study of rural commercial practice in the Scottish Highlands Abstract This is a study of the movement of cattle and grain out of the Scottish Highlands in the period before and during Improvement. It uses the combined approach of historical archaeology (archaeological, documentary and cartographic research) to focus on […]

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Photographs and Documents relating to World War I

This section will cover documents and photographs relating to the First World War. In particular, it follows the fate of my grandfather, Douglas Jerman Thomson. To war with a bicycle Douglas was born in Leith in 1897, and grew up in Elm Place, Leith and then Balfour Street, Kirkcaldy. He began an engineering apprenticeship on […]

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