For Hallowe’en, Prof Penny Fielding will give an online talk for Museums & Galleries Edinburgh about ghosts, visions and prophecies in Scott’s novels and poetry. We will learn how Scott included traditional folklore beliefs in his ballad collection The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, and how different kinds of apparitions feature in his novels, including Waverley and The Bride of Lammermoor. …
In this first Old Edinburgh Club talk in a physical venue since early 2020 Prof Roger Jeffery will discuss “India in Edinburgh in the long 19th century.” Formerly Professor of Sociology of South Asia at the University of Edinburgh (from 1997-2020) Prof Jeffery was also a co-founder of of the University’s Centre for South Asia Studies and is Associate Director …
The Edinburgh Association of Community Councils aims to provide support, advice and give a collective voice for community councils when facing the challenges community councillors encounter on an almost daily basis. All of Edinburgh’s Community Councils are invited to send a representative to the Association’s regular meetings. Booking information and other details can be found at the link below.
The Edinburgh Association of Community Councils aims to provide support, advice and give a collective voice for community councils when facing the challenges community councillors encounter on an almost daily basis. All of Edinburgh’s Community Councils are invited to send a representative to the Association’s regular meetings. Booking information and other details can be found at the link below.
The Edinburgh Association of Community Councils aims to provide support, advice and give a collective voice for community councils when facing the challenges community councillors encounter on an almost daily basis. All of Edinburgh’s Community Councils are invited to send a representative to the Association’s regular meetings. Booking information and other details can be found at the link below.
Edinburgh Living Streets are hosting a free online public summit which will bring together community representatives, campaigners, councillors and government to look at how speeding on the city’s streets can be reduced. The aim is to make ‘Vision Zero’ – zero deaths and serious injuries – a practical reality for Edinburgh, not just a theoretical commitment. Speakers will include Lesley …
After a century and a half of discussion, planning and apparently endless piecemeal strategies about environmental ambitions the current climate emergency demands immediate achievable actions. This latest one-day FREE online Cockburn Conference on Saturday 30 October will discuss some of the many well-intended environmental and sustainability schemes, policy documents and political initiatives that have been produced over the last few decades …
The Cockburn Association has been organising this beloved annual free event in Edinburgh for over thirty years and for the last five in East Lothian. This year’s weekend will see over one hundred venues, businesses and organisations fling open the virtual OR actual doors to the public once again. Visit our specially created Doors Open Days page where you will …
Muriel Spark’s classic novel, ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’ was published 60 years ago on 5 October 1961, and it would become iconic in the public imagination. Celebrate this milestone with a free talk from the National Library of Scotland. The novel’s title character, ‘Miss Brodie’, was inspired by Spark’s teacher, Christina Kay, at James Gillespie’s School. Norma Allan, …
Renowned Scottish author Sara Sheridan talks to National Library of Scotland Curator Dora Petherbridge about her latest novel, The Fair Botanists. Set in Edinburgh in 1822, Sara’s latest novel The Fair Botanists has been brilliantly received by both readers and critics. Using the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh’s and the National Library archives for research, she has created a story deeply embedded …
