We’ll be hosting a talk from Professor Richard Rodger, offering fresh insights on Edinburgh’s Colony Housing. He will explore the origins and achievements of a group of working men and women who formed a Cooperative Company in an effort to counteract the disadvantages of living in the congested areas of Victorian Edinburgh. Their achievement was to build over 2300 houses, …
John Gilbert and Annie Flint, authors of Under One Roof Scotland, the highly praised website for tenement owners in Scotland, in conversation with Jo Parry-Geddes of Mill Architects, David Gibbon of GLM Surveyors and Andrew Seatter of Sash and Case Windows. John, Jo and David will be talking from their extensive knowledge of maintaining stone buildings and tenements, especially those …
Designed by the eminent architect George Washington Brown, Edinburgh’s Comely Bank Cemetery was laid near the end of Queen Victoria’s reign in 1896. It has since lost its southern entrance and modern housing now encroaches upon its original, ornate gate piers. Access is now only possible via its north-east corner on Crewe Road. Due to the cemetery’s proximity to the …
We’ll be hosting Patricia Keppie, the Scotland Public Engagement Coordinator of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, as she takes us on a virtual tour of Comely Bank Cemetery. Designed by the eminent architect George Washington Brown, Edinburgh’s Comely Bank Cemetery was laid near the end of Queen Victoria’s reign in 1896. Patricia will tell us more about the history of the …
We’ll be hosting Ed Bethune, the chairperson of the 1722 Waggonway Heritage Group, as he takes us on a virtual tour of their wonderful museum in Cockenzie. The Tranent – Cockenzie Waggonway was built by the York Buildings Company in 1722. Construction started in May of that year, with local timber-wright William Dickson employed to make wooden rails, wagons and wheels …
Join Sara Sheridan, author, writer and community activist, in a conversation with Professor Cliff Hague, the chairperson of the Cockburn Association, entitled “Where are the women? A guide to an imagined Scotland”. The conversation will focus upon Sara’s meticulously researched book of the same name, published last year by Historic Environment Scotland. In this imagined guide to Scotland’s towns and …
Join Andrew Crummy, internationally renowned artist, in a conversation with Professor Cliff Hague, the chairperson of the Cockburn Association, entitled “How we helped the people sing: The story of the Craigmillar Festival Society”. Andrew and Cliff will discuss the roots and output of this prolific grassroots arts festival founded in 1962 by Andrew’s mother Helen and other members of the …
Join Lisa Williams, writer and founder of the Edinburgh Caribbean Association, in a conversation with Professor Cliff Hague, the chairperson of the Cockburn Association, entitled “Behind the Façade: Edinburgh’s links with the Caribbean”. Lisa and Cliff will discuss Lisa’s extensive research into the connections many of Edinburgh’s most notable buildings have to the Caribbean, Africa and Asia as well as …
Join Professor Euan Hague, of De Paul University in Chicago, in a conversation with Professor Cliff Hague, the chairperson of the Cockburn Association, entitled “Challenging entrenched histories: The memorialisation of the Confederacy in the USA”. Euan and Cliff will be discussing Euan’s research into neo-Confederacy; how this is reflected in monuments and place-names; unearthing hidden histories in Chicago; and lessons …
Join Sir Geoff Palmer, Professor Emeritus, noted academic and human rights activist, in a conversation with Professor Cliff Hague, the chairperson of the Cockburn Association, entitled “Don’t take down statues, take down racism”. Sir Geoff and Cliff will discuss the campaign he has led to erect a plaque on Edinburgh’s Melville Monument that narrates the role Henry Dundas played in …
