Edinburgh lectures & talks

BBC Radio 4's popular gardening programme Gardener's Question Time will be recording its next show at the…
3 experts share their experience and expertise on the need to end coal mining, and how this process has been…
LeithLate returns to the Walk this summer with a jam-packed programme of mostly free exhibitions and events…
The ‘Two Minute Manifesto’ caravan came to a halt at the Traverse on the day of the Scottish Parliament…
The ‘traditional arts’ are often referred to as ‘The Voice of the People’, but what do we mean by ‘the people…
A unique opportunity to see two landmark works of British social realism side by side on the big screen,…
A large scale, digitally animated light show projected onto Edinburgh Castle battlements, and set to a…
Chris Rapley, Professor of Climate Science at the University College of London, was awarded the
Climate change is without doubt the defining issue of our age. For many, the Paris Agreement on climate…
Best known as the robot in sci-fi series Red Dwarf, but gaining increasing recognition for his electric…
Probably the most important talk that you can see at the Edinburgh International Science Festival,…
Launched in 2011, "Previously" is a volunteer-driven local history festival. In 2015, the programme runs over…
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Scottish essayist, poet, man of letters, novelist and travel writer,…
Just when everyone involved in the Festival is catching their collective breath, lurking round the corner…
Comedian Bryony Kimmings today gave the official Fringe Central Opening Address, the third of its kind.
The Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) has announced a high profile array of performers for its Edinburgh…
A family, nature festival on the 134 hectare Levenhall Links park in Musselburgh – just behind the racecourse…
The Edinburgh International Science Festival (4-19 April, 2015) wants visitors to see it as "The Ideas…
Alison O’Donnell will explore the history of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals, in this free history of nursing…
InnovationNation, a year long series of public lectures, bringing together some of Scotland’s leading…