List of lectures given during past Winter Programmes
2010-2011 Winter Programme
Wednesday 13 October
Carolyn Anderson
"For the Peace of the City":
The (Re)construction of Edinburgh Castle
in the Eighteenth Century
Wednesday 17 November
Aaron Allen
Conquering the Suburbs;
Politics and Work in Early Modern Edinburgh
Wednesday 08 December
Willis Pickard
Duncan McLaren, Lord Provost and MP
Wednesday 19 January
Olive Geddes
Golf – Edinburgh and Beyond
Wednesday 16 February
James Simpson OBE
The Strange Migration of Botanic Cottage
Wednesday 16 March
Professor Alexander Broadie
Why Hume Still Matters
2009-2010 Winter Programme
Wednesday 14 October
Professor David Purdie
A Bard in Baxter’s Close
(Robert Burns and Edinburgh, 1786-91)
Wednesday 11 November
Mr David MacClay
John Murray's Publishing Archives:
the Edinburgh Perspective
Wednesday 9 December
Dr Patricia Andrew
Illustrations of Edinburgh
Wednesday 13 January
Mr David Ingram
Gayfield House:
Discussion ranging from Deacon Brodie to William Trotter
Wednesday 10 February
Mr Andrew McMillan
The City of Edinburgh - Landscape and Stone
Wednesday 10 March
Dr Patricia Andrew
Alexander Nasmyth 1758-1840: Painter and Polymath
2008 – 2009 WINTER PROGRAMME
Wednesday 15 October
Sheila Szatkowski
John Kay, 1742-1826: Barber, Miniaturist
and Social Commentator
Wednesday 12 November
Dr Patricia Andrew
Jacob More, 1740-1793: an Edinburgh Artist in Italy
Wednesday 10 December
Prof. Charles McKean
When did Edinburgh become ‘the Old Town’?:
an Enlightenment Conspiracy Unravelled.
Wednesday 14 January
Dr Alexander Stoddart
Hume, Stevenson, Smith and Clerk Maxwell:
Four Statues for Edinburgh
Wednesday 18 February
James McCarthy
Keith Johnston, Cartographer and Explorer
Wednesday 18 March
John Chalmers
Andrew Duncan, Physician of the Enlightenment
2007 – 2008 WINTER PROGRAMME
Wednesday 17 October
David Affleck
Regent Morton and his Chamberlain,
George Auchinleck, “the arrogant upstart.”
Wednesday 14 November
Michael Lynch
The Grooming of Edinburgh to become the Capital City
in the 16th and early 17th Centuries
Wednesday 12 December
James Robertson
The Case of Joseph Knight:
Slavery and Freedom in Enlightenment Scotland
Wednesday 16 January
Donald Smith
Cultural Champion:
William J. Hay and Old Edinburgh
Wednesday 13 February
Alan Taylor
Muriel Spark’s Prime
Wednesday 12 March
The Boog Watson Lecture Dr Iain Gordon Brown, President, OEC
From Arthur’s Seat to Mount Etna; or, ‘‘I sit in St. Carlo’s Nose’’: James Hall, Advocate, at large in Europe, 1821-1822
2006 – 2007 WINTER PROGRAMME
Wednesday 18 October
Dr Nicholas Phillipson
Adam Smith
Wednesday 15 November
David Ingram
Castlehill to Canongate:
The 18th Century Royal Mile
Wednesday 13 December
Graeme D. R. Cruickshank, M.A., A.M.A., F.M.A.
The Edinburgh International Exhibition of 1886
Wednesday 17 January
David W S Todd M.A., M.Mus.
Theatre and Music in Edinburgh
Wednesday 14 February
Professor Sam McKinstry
Walter Scott and Accountancy
Wednesday 14 March
Norman E. Butcher B.Sc., F.G.S.
James Hutton (1726-1797):
Founder of Modern Geology
2005 – 2006 WINTER PROGRAMME
Wednesday 19 October
Cecilia Cavaye BMusHons, LRAM, ALCM, DipEd
The Begbie Slides of Victorian Edinburgh
Wednesday 16 November
Professor David Purdie MD, FRCP Edin
Mirror of Enlightenment:
Images of 18th century Edinburgh
Wednesday 14 December
Fiona Jamieson DipTP, MRTPI, FSAScot, IHBC
A Jaunt through Four Centuries of Gardening
at the Palace of Holyroodhouse
Wednesday 18 January
Laura Stewart
Edinburgh and the Outbreak of the
British Civil Wars 1625-37
Wednesday 15 February
Dr Athol Murray
History in the Making:
Sir Walter Scott and Jock Howieson
Wednesday 15 March
Dr Elizabeth Cumming
Cultivating the Garden:
Patrick Geddes and 1890s Edinburgh
