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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
- Marie Stopes [r]: Add brief definition or description
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
- Muriel Spark [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
- James Connolly [r]: Add brief definition or description Connolly was born in the Cowgate - then a slum area of Edinburgh's Old Town, nicknamed "Little Ireland."
- Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet [r]: Add brief definition or description (In 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