Events
Some of the past events members of the DDRA have attended are shown below.  For details of current events, go to our News page

Oxford Day 2007
September
Wolfson College, Oxford

This annual event featured 'The Tudor Tailor; reconstructing sixteenth century dress', and 'Mirror of the World: The Astrolabe in the Renaissance', a talk by Stephen Johnson.

The Thorfinn Experience, Orkney
September 2007

A mini-gathering was held in Thorfinn's Orcadian stamping grounds.

DDD - Darmstadt Dunnett Day 2007
7th - 8th July 2007
Rossdorf near Darmstadt, Germany

The annual Darmstadt Gathering was held on the weekend of 7th/8th July.
For information about the next event please contact deutschland@ddra.org

DDRA Edinburgh Weekend 2007
April 2007

The weekend and AGM was held at The Royal Over-Seas League, Princes Street, Edinburgh and included a visit to the Museum of Scotland and a trip to Dean Castle, near Kilmarnock.

Saddell in Scotland
April 2007

Saddell, on the Kintyre peninsular in South West Scotland was the venue for a Dunnett event in April 2007, following the DDRA Weekend.

Oxford Dunnett Day Wolfson College, Oxford
Saturday 16th September 2006

The Speakers included:

Alexandra Walsham, Professor of Reformation History at Exeter University discussing Destiny in the Stars: Astrology in Early Modern Europe and also a talk on Medieval and Renaissance Treasures of the Wernher Collection by Annie Kemkeren-Smith

For information about future Oxford Days contact Olive Millward

Bath 2006 Gathering
The Guildhall, High Street, Bath
Saturday 7th October 2006

The historic city of Bath was the venue for Betty Cooper's Gathering in October 2006.

DDRA Edinburgh Weekend
Friday 21st to Sunday 23rd April 2006

Dunnett joins literary elite list

Dorothy Dunnett was honoured at the Writer's Museum in Edinburgh during April 2006. An inscribed stone was laid in Makars' Court, Ladystairs Close which is off the Royal Mile.  The Saltire Society proposed that Lady Dunnett join the distinguished list of literary figures already commemorated there. Her inscription joins those of, among others, Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson and Sorley MacLean.

The Writers' Museum held an exhibition about Lady Dunnett and her work from April 2006 until January 2007.

The Writers Museum
Lady Stair's Close
Lawnmarket (Royal Mile)
Edinburgh

Phone: 0131 539 4901
Outside the UK phone +44 131 539 4901

The Dunnett Siege of Malta
Monday 17th - Thursday 20th October 2005

About 100 people descended on the Hotel Meridien Phoenicia in Valletta for 4 days of Dunnett delight! A good time was had by all and the trip was featured in the January 2006 issue of Whispering Gallery.

Details of events can be found in Whispering Gallery.

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