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Neil Robb.More information on the new 2024 / 2025 Talks Season can be found by clicking here.
15 October 2024: ‘The Cold Hand of Charity’. Writer and historian, Alastair MacDonald, will look at the establishment of the model Edinburgh City Poorhouse at Craiglockhart in 1870 and how it operated, including stories of the staff and inmates.
19 November 2024: ‘How to Map a Country – the Atlas of Scotland: A Vision of a Nation’. Andrew Redmond Barr, a local writer and artist who hand draws maps, will share his passion for map-making, illustration and the art of making Scottish history more accessible to all.
17 December 2024: ‘The Athens of the North: Greek Inscriptions in Edinburgh’. Ian McHaffie, former teacher of Classics and Religious Education at George Watson’s College, will discuss and illustrate the more than 40 Greek inscriptions in Edinburgh. As Ian says, this is not a dull list of inscriptions but a fascinating dip into history.
21 January 2025: ‘Scottish Lighthouses’. Alison Morrison-Low is a retired Principal Curator for Science at National Museums Scotland and her talk will outline the story of Scotland’s earliest lighthouses through to many put up around the coast during the 19th century by the remarkable Stevenson family.
18 February 2025: ‘Eric Henry Liddell – the Legend, the Legacy and the Inspiration’. Just after we have celebrated the centenary of Eric ‘Chariots of Fire’ Liddell’s Olympic Gold Medal, Grant Jarvie, Professor and Chair of Sport at the University of Edinburgh, will examine Liddell’s extraordinary life and legacy.
18 March 2025: ‘James Clerk Maxwell, the Edinburgh Mathematician who Shaped the Modern World’. Peter Grant, for 14 years a Trustee of the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation, will introduce us to the extraordinary life and work of Maxwell, who was born in Edinburgh in 1831 and whose work provided the foundation for modern radio or wireless transmissions.
All previous talks given over the years can be found here.