Join us for a lecture exploring life in the City at the time the last owner Mrs Reid would have lived.
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This is a story about the struggle of women to obtain the same right as men to vote in British general elections, a struggle which did not end until 1928 when they acquired that right.
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During World War II, over 217,000 young women from 48 different countries served in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force. They were known as Waafs. From cooks to photo intelligence officers, they did over 100 air force jobs normally done by men, so that men could be freed for combat.
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Founded in Edinburgh in 1907, the Scottish Modern Arts Association set out to establish Scotland’s first ever national collection of modern art. For more than fifty years it actively acquired work by leading contemporary artists, including William McTaggart, John Duncan, S.J.
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Described by Karl Marx as ‘the pleasant character mixture of swindler and prophet’, John Law inherited Lauriston Castle at the age of 12. At the age of 21 he sold the castle to his mother in order to pay off gambling debts. This, however, was only the beginning of John’s unbelievable story.
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You are invited to meet the residents and staff of the castle in 1905 who are discussing the origins and traditions of Halloween in Scotland.