What happened when a nude art school model was wheeled across the gallery of the McEwan Hall during the 1963 Edinburgh International Festival? Why was there such an uproar that charges were brought and a court case that journalist Bernard Levin dubbed ‘Lady MacChatterley’ took place? This talk explores the Edinburgh Festivals during the sixties, a time of experimentation in the arts and challenges to social mores that together made Edinburgh the site of lively debate and cultural controversy.
Speaker
Angela Bartie is a Senior Lecturer in Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh. She is author of The Edinburgh Festivals: Culture and Society in Post-war Britain, International Writers Conference Revisited: Edinburgh 1962 (with Eleanor Bell), and a range of other publications on aspects of the social and cultural history of modern Scotland.
