Centenary Conference
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Centenary Conference |
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 Some members of the OEC Council - L to R Standing - Graham Cruikshank, Colin Warwick, David Purdie, Tristram Clarke, L to R Seated - Alan Borthwick, Iain G Brown, Robin Tait
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The Old Edinburgh Club, Centenary Conference To celebrate 100 years as Edinburgh's leading history society, the Old Edinburgh Club hosted a very successful one-day conference on Saturday 4th October 2008. The event, attended by 250 delegates, was at Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 9 Queen Street where the audience were enlightened by eight of Scotlands top academics; ‘EDINBURGH (1908 – 2008): ONCE AND FUTURE CAPITAL’ Morning Session Chair: Ms Bridget Stevens Council Member, Old Edinburgh Club Welcome and Introduction Dr Iain Gordon Brown, FRSE FSA President, Old Edinburgh Club Principal Curator of Manuscripts, National Library of Scotland Time and Spaces in 20th Century Edinburgh - or how the city was turned inside out. Professor Robert J. Morris, FRHistS Professor of Economic & Social History, University of Edinburgh Lawyers’ Edinburgh 1900-2000 Professor Hector MacQueen, FBA FRSE Professor of Private Law, University of Edinburgh Coffee Twentieth Century Science in Edinburgh: a brief personal selection Professor Aubrey Manning, OBE FRSE Sometime Professor of Natural History, University of Edinburgh Edinburgh Medicine Professor David Purdie, MD FRCPEd. Professor Emeritus, Universities of Hull & York Medical School Lunch Afternoon Session Chair: The Rt Hon the Lord Cullen of Whitekirk, KT PC FRSE FR Eng Honorary Vice-President, Old Edinburgh Club The Arts of Mid-Lothian Mr Owen Dudley Edwards Historian, Author, Broadcaster; Honorary Fellow, University of Edinburgh Edinburgh Authors: the Literary City's Storytelling Professor Randall Stevenson Professor of Twentieth Century Literature, University of Edinburgh Tea Religious Identity in a Century of Secularisation: the Churches of Edinburgh, 1908-2008 Professor Stewart J. Brown, FRSE FRHistS Professor of Ecclesiastical History, University of Edinburgh Edinburgh: the Capital of Scottish Politics, 1908-2008? Professor Richard Finlay, FRHistS Professor of History, University of Strathclyde Concluding Remarks Drinks Reception Birlinn Books Ltd had their recent publications for sale and the Old Town Bookshop had for sale many second-hand books Sponsors; The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland and the Faculty of Advocates |
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