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Black and white aerial image with views over Arthur's Seat and Edinburgh Castle
  • Monday 27 January 2025
  • John Sinclair House
  • Talks and Seminars
  • Technical Level:
  • HES
  • Feature weight: 20

Edinburgh from Above

Aerial image highlights from HES Archive.

beautiful artificial lake covered with gorgeous lotus flowers
  • Saturday 4 May 2024
  • Cowdray Hall
  • Talks and Seminars
  • Technical Level:
  • HES
  • Feature weight: 0

Grandmother Muse

British-Indian Photographer Arpita Shah will be in-conversation with Catriona McAra, Art Historian at the University of Aberdeen

Postcard of the Forth railway bridge seen from Fife, 1903. The view is taken from North Queensferry: the slipway for the ferry is in the middle of the picture.
  • Monday 22 July 2024
  • John Sinclair House
  • Talks and Seminars
  • Technical Level:
  • Archives
  • HES
  • Feature weight: 0

Wish You Were Here

Postcard highlights from the Archive of Historic Environment Scotland.

Soldiers convalescing in the Dining Room at Glamis Castle during the First World War
  • Monday 11 November 2024
  • John Sinclair House
  • Talks and Seminars
  • Technical Level:
  • Military and wars
  • HES
  • Feature weight: 0

WWI & WWII Commemorative Talks

Join us on Armistice Day for this special event as we hear from archivists from some of Scotland's most iconic locations - Glamis Castle, Mount Stuart, Blair Castle and Inveraray Castle.

Aerial view of buildings on Picardy Place, Edinburgh
  • Monday 31 March 2025
  • John Sinclair House
  • Talks and Seminars
  • Technical Level:
  • HES
  • Feature weight: 0

Picardy Weavers

This event has been cancelled

A man in a kilt swinging a flaming fireball on a wire handle. A traditional ceremony held in Stonehaven on New Year's Eve
  • Thursday 25 September 2025
  • Online
  • Talks and Seminars
  • Technical Level:
  • HES
  • Feature weight: 0

Scottish Traditional Folk Customs

Learn more about Scottish Folk Customs in this archives talk.

A couple standing outside a house, dressed smartly in mid‑20th‑century attire, pose for a photograph in front of their garden
  • Monday 26 January 2026
  • John Sinclair House
  • Talks and Seminars
  • Technical Level:
  • Military and wars
  • HES
  • Feature weight: 0

Post-War Edinburgh

Discover Edinburgh as it was being rebuilt following the Second World War.

A painting of a castle with greenery and sheep surrounding
  • Monday 30 March 2026
  • John Sinclair House
  • Talks and Seminars
  • Technical Level:
  • HES
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Tours of Scotland from 1700 to 1837

Embark on a historical tour round Scotland, using archive images to retrace the steps of tourists from the 1700s and 1800s

A tall grey castle surrounded by temporary fencing, with the entrance way boarded up with scaffolding.
  • Selected dates until Friday 5 June 2026
  • Engine Shed
  • Talks and Seminars
  • Technical Level: Quite technical
  • Building Management, Materials, Technical Conservation, Architecture
  • Enthusiast, Professional
  • HES, Engine Shed, Learn
  • Feature weight: 0

Introduction to Building Conservation

Through a series of lectures and site visits over five days, explore the conservation of the Scottish built environment and traditional building skills.

A black and white photo of a street in Scotland with shops at the bottom and tenement flats above, with cars parked and people walking along the pavements
  • Monday 28 September 2026
  • John Sinclair House
  • Talks and Seminars
  • Technical Level:
  • HES
  • Feature weight: 0

Housing for the People

In this talk Michael Allan, Acquisitions and Loans Officer at HES Archives, uses material from HES Archives to explore tenement housing in Scotland's cities

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