Edinburgh Talks

at Edinburgh Central Library

June 2008

The following talks are to be given at Edinburgh Central Library as part of Edinburgh's  'Old Town Festival':

 

1.

Thursday 19 June   -  6.30pm - 7.30pm

FREE

Central Library, George IV Bridge, Washington Browne Room

Edinburgh: A Changing City

   Photograph by John MOffat of Robert Louis Stevenson aged 15 ©

An illustrated talk with photographer Roddy Simpson in the footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson, with the photographs of Alvin Langdon Coburn.

This photo of R L Stevenson, aged 20, taken by John Moffat, is from the the collection held in the Edinburgh Room

2.

Thursday 26 June   -  6.30pm - 7.30pm

FREE

Central Library, George IV Bridge, Washington Browne Room

Rock House

  Rock House studio  -  1870s ©

A hundred years of photography.  Edinburgh’s Old Town through the photographs of Hill and Adamson, Archibald Burns and the Inglis family with photographer Roddy Simpson

This photo of Rock House, beside the steps to Calton Hill, is from the the collection held in the Edinburgh Room

 

Please contact the Edinburgh Room to book a place.

Tel:   0131 242 8030

email:  edinburgh.room@edinburgh.gov.uk

 

 

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