Past Edinburgh 900 Events

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A shot of rowers on the Forth on a sunny day
Seafaring Spirit: Celebrating Newhaven’s Coastal Community
26th April 2025
Join Newhaven Coastal Rowing Club for a free community festival packed with boat launches, thrilling skiff races, live music, storytelling, craft workshops, exhibitions and RNLI demonstrations.Watch Dame Katherine Grainger, Olympic…
Audacious Women of the Enlightenment
26th April 2025
Join us for an event in partnership with Audacious Women Festival to Celebrate Edinburgh900: City of Ideas.  The Enlightenment may be seen mainly as a male phenomenon, but women were…
A group of staff surrounding the beginning of the wooden frame of the boat
Seafaring Spirit at Newhaven Harbour
26th April 2025
The Grassmarket Community Project (GCP) will launch their hand-built St Ayles Skiff on Saturday, April 26, as part of the Seafaring Spirit festival celebrating Newhaven’s coastal heritage and the Edinburgh 900 celebrations.
White folded paper with black ink abstract designs on it
Celebrating 900 Years through Community Art & Stories
1st August 2024 - 30th April 2025
Come Celebrate 900 Years of Edinburgh with Community Art and Stories! The team from Edinburgh Remakery are inviting you to be part of something truly special – our project “Celebrating…
Book with drawing of Thomas Muir with the words
Thomas Muir and the Martyrs’ Monument on Calton Hill
1st May 2025
The story of Thomas Muir is both tragic and inspirational.
A black and white drawing of the Advocates' library, with groups of people spread across a long room with a high ceiling, ceiling length windows and a cupola in the ceiling
The Library of the Faculty of Advocates in the Scottish Enlightenment: A Locus for the Exchange of Ideas
2nd May 2025
This talk focuses on the important role which the Library of the Faculty of Advocates played in 18th-century Edinburgh, and the significance of Keepers of the Library such as Thomas Ruddiman and David Hume.
A coloured drawing of the signed treaty being handed to Queen Anne by a kneeling man in flowing blue robes and a wig. Two courtiers stand behind the queen; a fourth man holds the union flag.
Edinburgh and the Act of Union 1707
8th May 2025
This illustrated talk will consider the background to the mounting crisis between Scotland and England, a crisis that could easily have slipped into hostilities.
Exterior shot of Riddle's Court, Lawnmarket
World Heritage Day Panel Discussion: Living Heritage
8th May 2025
We know Edinburgh is a tourist magnet, but what is it like to run a business within the World Heritage Site? Join Hazel Johnson, Director of BEFS and Edinburgh World…
A multicoloured patchwork quilt showing half of a woman's face on the left and otherwise patches of different designs, colours and shapes
A City of Diversity: Past, Present, and Future
5th May 2025 - 9th May 2025
Join us for a week of art and stories from incredible people in the Black migrant community of Edinburgh. We will highlight and honour their rich contributions past and present…
A group of people at the Mount Precinct holding a banner for the Tartan Parade
Edinburgh Tartan Parade
10th May 2025
Tartan Parade Scotland is thrilled to announce the inaugural Edinburgh Tartan Parade, set to take place on Saturday, May 10, 2025, in the heart of Edinburgh. This exciting event will…
A stone carving with Gaelic writing carved into it and the date 1769
Gaelic in Edinburgh: History and demography
10th May 2025
In this lecture, Rob Dunbar and Wilson McLeod explore the development of Edinburgh’s Gaelic community and its social and cultural institutions over the centuries. Although it is often thought that…
Promo flyer for Dark Side of the South Side
Dark Side of the Southside
19th February 2025 - 12th May 2025
The hidden history of Edinburgh’s Southside. Learn a new art technique during workshops with artists Marta Adamowicz and Robert Motyka, and create illustrations for a local history exhibition while discussing…
A collage of swatches of fabric, tapestry, tartan, floral etc
Patterns of Fashion: Exploring pattern in the dress history and textiles collection of Museums & Galleries Edinburgh
14th May 2025
From chintz to tartan, paisley to pop-art, join History Curator Vicky Garrington on a tour of the origins of some of the most recognisable patterns in our collection. Enjoy seeing…
Portrait of Henry Raeburn
Edinburgh Enlightened Golfers
15th May 2025
The rich heritage of Leith has many interesting stories to tell. This talk will explore the variety of notable people who have played golf on Leith Links.
Image of Sara Sheridan and Leslie Hills
In Conversation with Sara Sheridan and Leslie Hills
17th May 2025
Sara Sheridan and Leslie Hills explore hidden herstories unearthed over years of writing and research.
A group of women at the foot of a flight of steps in Princes Street Gardens
Monumental
10th May 2025 - 17th May 2025
Did you know there are more statues dedicated to animals than named women in Edinburgh’s city centre?Come meet the women who don’t have statues dedicated to them, but definitely contributed…
A night-time shot of the exterior of the Scottish Storytelling Centre
Tales of the City
19th May 2025
Tales of the City will be an evening of eight new short plays by Edinburgh-based Playwrights written specifically around the theme of Edinburgh 900. Produced by PenPal Productions, the event…
Gordon in his school uniform sitting in the garden with baby Frances in a shawl on his lap
Growing up in Corstorphine in the 1950s
21st May 2025
This lecture will take the form of a personal reminiscence of growing up as a child in the 1950s and early 1960s in the suburb of Edinburgh. These were the…