Edinburgh lectures & talks

Former World Champion racing driver Sir Jackie Stewart today gets a week-long programme of events to mark
Racing champion Sir Jackie Stewart, 71, is the keynote speaker at Dyslexia Awareness Week,starting today.
A special series of lectures and talks exploring different aspects of medieval life, jointly organised by the…
Alastair has visited the Falkland Islands on three occasions, studying the spiders that live there.
Historian James Robertson looks at how Edinburgh earned its reputation as "City of Enlightenment" and "Athens…
British Cities are often described as lacking the crucial powers required to achieve self-determination and…
Rick Mather founded Rick Mather Architects in 1973 will envision how architecture can combine with culture…
Cities occupy an uncertain and sometimes unloved space in much of the Scottish literary canon.
Every political system makes use of design and architecture to establish its values, and its beliefs.
Andrew Dixon is CEO of Creative Scotland, the new national leader for the arts, screen and creative…
This Edinburgh lecture is part of the three-day Rethinking the City Event which aims to emulate the issue-…
This morning there was a less-than-bloody pitched battle between Richard Holloway, Richard Harries and author…
Considering that the financial success or failure of any show at Edinburgh's Festival Fringe can depend…
The Main Hall of the Scottish Parliament and various Committee Rooms are given over to five days of public…
BBC Director General Mark Thompson will give this year’s MacTaggart Lecture at the MediaGuardian…
J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan is perhaps the Scottish 'fairy story' most readily conjured up in our minds, but…
The remarkable and rapid development of modern technology during the Edwardian period was mirrored by a…
Aileen Christianson will talk about 19th century women writing both for publication and in private letters…