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Celebrating 300 years of David Hume
Philosopher - Historian - Sceptic
The University of Edinburgh

Programme of Events

The Nature of Knowledge Lecture
A prestigious University of Edinburgh Philosophy lecture series
Hume, Kant, and the Passion for Reason by Professor Paul Guyer
Date & Time 14 December 2011 at 5.30pm
Venue F21, Psychology Building, 7 George Square, The University of Edinburgh
Tickets Free but ticketed.
Book online at http://edinburgh-university.eventbrite.com/

Hume Art Exhibition
The University’s Talbot Rice Gallery will explore the concept of beauty
in relation to the works of David Hume.
Beauty and the Beholder: Morality and Virtue
Date & Time 11 November 2011–18 February 2012. Open Tuesday–Saturday, 10am–5pm
Venue Talbot Rice Gallery, Old College, South Bridge, The University of Edinburgh
Tickets Free

Related Events

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY AESTHETICS WORKSHOP
Enlightenment Aesthetics and Beyond
Date 15–16 December 2011
Details Please contact Emily Brady, Emily.Brady@ed.ac.uk, +44 (0)131 650 9137
For further information on all events, please contact:
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
Tel: +44 (0)131 650 4671
Email: iash@ed.ac.uk
www.iash.ed.ac.uk

'Rax Me That Buik'

From its 17th-century origins, the National Library of Scotland, one of the great research libraries of the world in every field, has developed an extraordinary collection of printed and manuscript material relating to Scotland and to the Scots.

This celebration of the Library's Scottish collections, provides a brief history of the institution and the development of its holdings, and focuses on a selection of the most interesting, exciting and unusual items, often going beyond the conventional 'treasures', describing and illustrating each one.
Dr Iain Gordon Brown, FRSE FSA, Principal Curator in the Manuscripts Division of the National Library of Scotland, is a widely published author and a respected scholar.

Scala Publishers, £16.95 paperback, 144 pages, 274 x 196mm, ISBN: 978 1 85759 638 0


Addressing History
Calling all history buffs!

Registration is now open for the AddressingHistory tool and API.
The JISC-funded AddressingHistory project
(http://addressinghistory.blogs.edina.ac.uk/) has developed an online tool
that combines historic Scottish Post Office Directories with contemporaneous
maps. As well as enabling browsing of these resources for local historians,
genealogists and researchers, AddressingHistory allows you to add
georeferences to addresses and submit small corrections and additions to the
scanned text. The project is led by EDINA working in partnership with the
National Library of Scotland (NLS).

Special publications offer

Looking for an unusual present for someone?  Why not make a gift with a difference: volumes of our occasional publication, Book of the Old Edinburgh Club!  Details of all the publications can be found on the Publications page.  Edinburgh residents, to whom we can make a personal delivery of the volumes, can buy a copy of all the 6 currently-available volumes for the special price of £32!  Details of how to purchase the volumes are on the Publications page.   


Greyfriars Kirk Visitor Centre
 
Greyfriars Kirk visitor centre would like to recruit more volunteer guides for the 2010 season in order to extend its visitor services.  If you are interested in the history of the Kirk, Edinburgh and Scotland, and enjoy meeting people and sharing your interest with them, the Kirk would like to hear from you.  Guides greet some of the many thousands of visitors who come to Greyfriars each year and make their visit memorable.  The Kirk is looking for people with two hours to spare weekly or fortnightly from April to end October.  Training will be given, usually on Thursday afternoons, prior to the season opening.  Please contact the Visitor Centre Manager, Greyfriars Tolbooth & Highland Kirk, Greyfriars Place, Edinburgh EH1 2QQ. 

Cecilia Christina Cavaye

We are sad to announce the death of our friend, Old Edinburgh Club council member and ardent 'Edinburgher', Cecilia Christina Cavaye on 19th July 2009.
As many Edinburgh citizens will know she was the proud daughter of the late Stanley and Beatrice Cavaye. Cecilia was a musician and teacher, late of George Watson's College. The funeral service will be held at Old St Paul's Episcopal Church, Jeffrey Street, Edinburgh on Tuesday 28th July 2009 at 11.30am followed by a burial at Liberton Cemetery, to which all friends are invited. There will be a retiral collection in aid of St Columba's Hospice.


Civic Reception

Edinburgh City Council held a Civic Reception to mark the Club's centenary on Tuesday 2 December at the City Chambers. The photograph shows the Club President Dr Iain G. Brown FSA FRSE with The Rt Hon George Grubb, Lord Lieutenant and Lord Provost of the City of Edinburgh.   



Council members make their way over Forrest Road for the unveiling.


Graeme Cruickshank and Iain G Brown show off the newly unveiled plaque. Note the row of setts on the pavement which delineate the position of the wall.

Old Edinburgh Club bronze plaque unveiling 

On the last day of 2008, a bronze plaque commissioned by the Club was unveiled to mark the site of the Flodden Wall at Bristo. The meeting place was the lane at the rear of the Scottish Museum and after a speech by our worthy president, Dr Ian G. Brown, members of the council were led over Forrest Road by a young piper where the unveiling ceremony took place.

The plaque, which also celebrates the Old Edinburgh Club's centenary, was the conception of council member Graeme Cruickshank and was manufactured by iron and bronze founders Charles Laing & Son, an Edinburgh family business.


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.

Read the full report.
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