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Subtopics - Places
- Arthur's Seat [r]: The plug of a long extinct volcano that forms the largest hill in Edinburgh. [e]
- Royal Palace of Holyroodhouse [r]: An official residence of the monarch, located in Edinburgh, Scotland. [e]
- John Knox House [r]: 15th century town house in Edinburgh, it displays exhibits about John Knox. [e]
- Greyfriars Bobby [r]: Nineteenth-century Syke Terrier in Edinburgh, Scotland who became famous for keeping vigil by his master's grave every day (barring extreme weather) for fourteen years. [e]
- Greyfriars Kirk [r]: Now 'Greyfriars Tolbooth & Highland Kirk', is a parish kirk (church) of the Church of Scotland and one of the oldest surviving buildings in Edinburgh outside the Old Town, built between 1602 and c.1620. [e]
- Scottish Parliament [r]: Legislative body of Scotland, having authority over many aspects of Scottish political life including Health and Education; re-created by the Act of Devolution 1997. [e]
- The Forth Bridge [r]: Cantilever railway bridge, built in 1883-1890, that connects Edinburgh to Fife [e]
- Royal Mile [r]: The streets in Edinburgh's Old Town that run from Holyrood Palace to Edinburgh Castle. [e]
- University of Edinburgh [r]: Founded in 1582, one of the leading academic institutions in the UK. [e]
- Auld Reekie [r]: Old nickname for Edinburgh, Scotland, meaning old smokey. [e]
Subtopics - Societies
- The Edinburgh Phrenological Society [r]: Established in 1820, became the leading phrenological society of the U.K. and established Edinburgh as a major centre of phrenology in the 19th century. [e]
- The Royal Society of Edinburgh [r]: Scotland's National Academy of Science & Letters; created in 1783 by Royal Charter for “the advancement of learning and useful knowledge.” [e]
- The Edinburgh Mathematical Society [r]: Founded in 1883 for "the mutual improvement of its members in the Mathematical Sciences, pure and applied." [e]
- The Old Edinburgh Club [r]: Local history society, founded in 1908 with the aim of recording the vanishing evidence of Edinburgh's history, its buildings and its past inhabitants. [e]
- The Edinburgh Bibliographical Society [r]: The oldest continuing Society of its kind, founded in 1890. [e]
- The Edinburgh Geological Society [r]: Founded in 1834 with the aim of stimulating public interest in geology and the advancement of geological knowledge. [e]
- Edinburgh Free Thinkers' Zetetic Society [r]: Formed in 1820 to provide support for the republican and freethinking publisher Richard Carlile and his family after Carlile had been imprisoned for blasphemy. [e],
Subtopics - People
- Thomas Aikenhead [r]: The last person to be executed for blasphemy in the UK. [e]
- John Knox [r]: Scottish clergyman (1514-1572), leader of the Scottish Reformation and founder of Scottish Presbyterianism. [e]
- William Brodie [r]: (1741 - 1788) Respectable Edinburgh citizen who led a gang of burglars and died on a gallows that he himself had designed. [e]
- William Burke [r]: (1792 - 1829) Prisoner hanged in Edinburgh's Lawnmarket in 1829 for his role in the West Port Murders. [e]
- Mary, Queen of Scots [r]: (8 December 1542 – 8 February 1857) Mary Stuart (or Stewart), Queen of Scotland (1542–67) and queen consort of France (1559–60); forced to flee to England after a rebellion among Scottish nobles, she was finally beheaded as a Roman Catholic threat to the English throne. [e]
- Helen Duncan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Thomas Muir [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Earl Haig [r]: Add brief definition or description (Sir Douglas Haig, 1861–1928). During World War I, Haig was commander-in-chief of the British Expeditionary Forces in France and Flanders from December, 1915 until the Armistice.
- James Connolly [r]: Add brief definition or description (1868-1916), socialist and leader of the Easter rising in Ireland, executed in 1916. Connolly was born in the Cowgate - then a slum area of Edinburgh's Old Town, nicknamed "Little Ireland."
- Marie Stopes [r]: Add brief definition or description (1880-1958), campaigner for women's rights and pioneer of birth control [1]
- Muriel Spark [r]: Add brief definition or description (1918-2006), novelist. The central character of her best-known novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, which is set in an Edinburgh girls' school, is a progressive feminist who admires Mussolini, Franco and Hitler.
Poets
- Thomas Blacklock [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Robert Burns [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Robert Fergusson [r]: Add brief definition or description
- William McGonagall [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Allan Ramsay (1686–1758) [r]: Add brief definition or description
Writers
- James Boswell [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Robert Chambers [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Arthur Conan-Doyle [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Daniel Defoe [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John Home [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Alexander McCall-Smith [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ian Rankin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- JK Rowling [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sir Walter Scott [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Robert Louis Stevenson [r]: Add brief definition or description
- James Tytler [r]: Add brief definition or description
Artists
- Allan Ramsay [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Robert Adam [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Henry Raeburn [r]: Add brief definition or description
Academics and Scientists
- Joseph Black [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hugh Blair [r]: Add brief definition or description
- James Burnet, Lord Monboddo [r]: Add brief definition or description
- James Croll [r]: Add brief definition or description
- William Cullen [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Charles Darwin [r]: Add brief definition or description Darwin began training as a physician in Edinburgh in 1825 at the age of 16; his father, Robert, and grandfather Erasmus had both been trained there, but Charles found the lectures "intolerably dull," and he left after two years.
- Erasmus Darwin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Peter Higgs [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Henry Home, Lord Kames [r]: Add brief definition or description
- David Hume [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Adam Ferguson [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John Forbes [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Archibald Geikie [r]: Add brief definition or description
- James Geikie [r]: Add brief definition or description
- James Hutton [r]: Add brief definition or description
- James Lind [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Alexander Monro primus [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Alexander Monro secundus [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John Playfair [r]: Add brief definition or description
- William Robertson [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Daniel Rutherford [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Adam Smith [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Dugald Stewart [r]: Add brief definition or description
Politicians
- Tony Blair [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gordon Brown [r]: Add brief definition or description
Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet (1754-1835) Scottish politician, writer on finance and agriculture and the first person to use the word 'statistics', in his Statistical Account of Scotland, in 21 volumes (The Statistical Accounts of Scotland)
Parent topics
- Scotland [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Great Britain [r]: Add brief definition or description
- United Kingdom [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Subdivisions of the United Kingdom
- European Union [r]: Add brief definition or description
Town and cities
- Glasgow [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Inverness [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Dundee [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Aberdeen [r]: Add brief definition or description
- England [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Wales [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Northern Ireland [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Scottish Enlightenment [r]: Add brief definition or description
Language
- Scots language [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Scottish Gaelic language [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Scottish English [r]: Add brief definition or description
- English language [r]: Add brief definition or description
- ↑ Marie Stopes bbc.co.uk