Heroines of the Canongate: Urban Reform in Edwardian Old Town

Heroines of the Canongate: Urban Reform in Edwardian Old Town

Date: Monday 5th February 2018, at 6.30pm.
Venue: St Andrew’s and St George’s West Church, 13 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 2PA.
Organiser: AHSS.

Dr Elizabeth Darling is Reader in Architectural History at Oxford Brookes University. Her work focuses on gender, space and reform in the 1890s – 1940s. Elizabeth offers us a different perspective on urban reform in the Old Town, highlighting the many women working around the same time as Patrick Geddes, and the change they effected in environments in and around the Canongate.

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