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Edinburgh Branch Summary of Speakers 2013/2014
25th September Brian Murray: Scottish coal-mining
5th October Dr John Forrester: Archbishop Thomas Hamilton of St Andrews
John Yellowlees: filming with Michael Portillo
2nd November 2013: Peter Jewell and Kenny Munro on Bill Douglas
7th December 2013: Dolina MacLennan on the legacy of the land-leaguers on Lewis
4th January 2014: the Borders Railway by David Spaven
1st February 2014, Julie Davidson: Discovering Mrs Livingston
1st March, Alastair Alexander : an episode from the role played by the Clyde in the Second World War
19th March, Matthew Withey, Curator of Abbotsford: the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution Lecture
2nd May Roy Pedersen: Trains, Ships Gaelic & Freedom
16th May, Jim Summers: Progressing Backwards, the Scottish Railway Collection at Bo’ness
7th June 2014: Edinburgh Branch Summer Outing: Stanley Mills, Perthshire
4th October 2014: Harry Knox on West Lothian shale-oil
1st November, Allan McLean: the history of brewing in Scotland
6 December lunch : "Chronicling Scottish local history" by Don Martin and Douglas Lockhart
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Branch Lunch Oct 3rd Edinburgh's three veterinary colleges
Branch Lunch 7th Nov Standing Up for Edinburgh with John Fleming
Branch Lunch 5th Dec with Billy Kay
Branch Lunch 9th Jan The Visit of George IV to Edinburgh 1822
Branch Lunch Saturday 6th February "Speaking for Scotland"
Branch Lunch 5th March Kellan MacInnes on Caleb's List
Branch Lunch 2nd April Wojtek the Bear
Update 24th May
The 2016 Edinburgh Philosophical Institution Lecture
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2016-17 Programme
Branch Lunch Saturday 1 October Forensic Medicine
Special Screeing Wednesday 5 OCtober Dummy Jim
Branch Lunch Saturday 5 November Representations of St Andrew
Edinburgh Branch visit to the War Poets Collection
Branch Lunch Saturday 3 December Newhails House
Branch Lunch Saturday 7 January The Water of Leith
Branch Lunch Saturday 4 March Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
Branch Lunch Saturday 2 April The Jewel, the life of Jean Armour and her husband Robert Burns
Annual Dinner on 5 May Dr Robyn Marsack
Edinburgh Philosophical Institution lecture 19 May 2017
2017-2018 Programme
7 October 2017, Angela Hunter : the Making of Sculpture, from Imagination to Installation
4 November : Joanna Macpherson on Being a Lady Laird
2 December, Rosemary Goring: After Flodden
21 November Riddle's Court
6 Januaryu Timothy Neat on Hamish Henderson As The Poets Knew Him
Simon Fairnie on 3 February 2018 about the Fishwives of Fisherrow
Talk on the City of Edinburgh Music School by Susan Emslie
April: Moya McDonald on Orkney cinema industry pioneer James Petrie Chalmers
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Edinburgh Philosophical Institution Lecture by Sian Bevan on UNESCO City of Literature
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2018-2019 Programme
6 October : Dr Conor Snowden, The British Council
3 November : Christine de Luca, on being The Edinburgh Makar
8 December : Branch Lunch
5 January 2019 : Barbara McLean on Marjory Fleming
2 February 2019: Simon Skinner
2 March 2019: Diane Watters
6 April 2019: Mike Robinson
Friday 3 May, Annual Dinner : David Purdie on the Scottish Enlightenment
Friday 17 May, Edinburgh Philosophical Institution Lecture : Pat Clark on People, Places and Piazzas
Edinburgh Branch AGM
8 June 2019: Summer Outing
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5 October 2019, Paul Sizeland : “What is Special about Scotland’s Biodiversity and Why It Matters”
JEAN FINDLAY ON C K SCOTT-MONCRIEFF
JAMIE JAUNCEY : R B CUNNINGHAME-GRAHAM
ANDREW REDMOND BARR ON THE 700TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DECLARATION OF ARBROATH
January Branch Visit: Trinity House
SUSAN KRUSE ON COMMUNITY ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE HIGHLANDS
MacDiarmid, A Celebration
7 March 2020 Tom Brock: Keep Scotland Beautiful
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Edinburgh Branch summer outing to Portobello organised by Eric Wishart
James Ogilvie on the History of the Forestry Commission
Prof. Joe Goldblatt on the Future of the Edinburgh Festivals
Irene McFarlane: Publishing in Scots
Ken Thomson on the Wallace Monument
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A Chasm in Time
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The Going Down of the Sun
Killochries
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Not All Honey
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Any Other Mouth
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Scottish Gods
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Governing Gaeldom
Cosmo Innes
The Eagle's Way
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All The Rage
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Cala Bendita ‘S a Bheannachdan
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Life After Life
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Empire Antarctica
Mairi Dhall agus Sgeulachdan
Something Like Happy
Looking for Mrs Livingstone
Artful
The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter
As Far As I Can See
Nothing is Heavy
Caleb’s List
Air Cuan Dubh Drilseach
Death,Life and Religious Change in Scottish Towns
An Enlightened Duke
Scotland No More?
The Firth of the Forth: An Environmental History
A Dictionary of Scottish Phrase and Fable
Visions of Britain, 1730-1830
Nancy Brysson Morrison: A Literary Life
The Sunlit Summit
2018
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