Honoured in Edinburgh – bestowing the Freedom of the City of Edinburgh
Barclay Price 4th November 2024
For more than 500 years Edinburgh’s civic authorities have awarded the Freedom of the City to prominent and influential individuals. This talk – linked to Price’s new book – will relate some of that long history, including a number of interesting events and recipients through the centuries..
200 years of Scottish Firefighting: The Start
Dave Farries 18th November 2024
The world’s first public and local authority funded Fire Service was established in Edinburgh in 1824. However, humans have always needed to muster together to extinguish fires and our history goes much further. This presentation will cover various aspects of this over the centuries.
