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Notable members of Edinburgh University's School of History, Classics and Archaeology: Lord Abercromby – author of distinguished research on Bronze Age pottery; Abercromby Professors of Archaeology. Vere Gordon Childe – first holder of the Abercromby Chair [3] Stuart Piggott – second holder of the Abercromby Chair
Edinburgh University Mountaineering Club at the cairn on Ciste Dhubh, 1964. Student sport at Edinburgh consists of clubs covering the more traditional rugby, football, rowing and judo, to the more unconventional korfball, gliding and mountaineering. In 2021, the university had over 65 sports clubs run by Edinburgh University Sports Union (EUSU ...
By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities (4 P) Pages in category "History of the University of Edinburgh" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
1582: The University of Edinburgh is founded and given a royal charter – it is Scotland's fourth university 1583: Edinburgh, previously a single parish, divided into four parishes, each with its own minister; There are an estimated 500 merchants and 500 craftsmen in the town, of which 250 are tailors
The University of Dundee gained independent university status by royal charter in 1967, having previously been a college of the University of St Andrews. While not governed by the Universities (Scotland) Acts, the institution's Royal Charter provided for it to adopt the characteristics of ancient university governance such as the academic ...
The University of Edinburgh was also a major supplier of surgeons for the Royal Navy, and Robert Jameson (1774–1854), Professor of Natural History at Edinburgh, ensured that a large number of these were surgeon-naturalists, who were vital in the Humboldtian and imperial enterprise of investigating nature throughout the world.
Old College is a late 18th-century to early 19th-century building of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.It is located on South Bridge, and presently houses parts of the University's administration, the University of Edinburgh School of Law, and the Talbot Rice Gallery.
He gives his name to the William Robertson Building of the Old Medical School buildings at the University of Edinburgh on Teviot Place, home to the School of History, Classics and Archaeology. There is also an endowed chair at Edinburgh in his name, the William Robertson Chair of History, for a specialist in non-European modern history. [18]