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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 ...
Classics, formerly split between the departments of Humanity (Latin) and Greek, have been taught at the University since its foundation in 1583. The school has the oldest established Chair in Scottish History. Several well-known archaeologists have graduated and taught at the school.
East Suffolk Park, the former Suffolk Road Halls of Residence, is a B-listed quadrangle of buildings set around a large central grassed area in the Newington suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland. It was originally built as hostel accommodation for women students attending the University of Edinburgh and the Edinburgh Provincial Training College.
The Cowgate (Scots: The Cougait) is a street in Edinburgh, Scotland, located about 550 yards (500 m) southeast of Edinburgh Castle, within the city's World Heritage Site. The street is part of the lower level of Edinburgh's Old Town , which lies below the elevated streets of South Bridge and George IV Bridge .
1-5 Hope Park Square first appears on the Edinburgh Ordnance Survey map of 1849. The majority of Hope Park Square was remodelled as small tenements circa 1860. In 1902, author and critic Dame Rebecca West lived with her mother and sisters at 2 Hope Park Square [20] before moving to Buccleuch Place to attend George Watson’s Ladies College. [21]
London: Hurst and Blackett, Ltd., Paternoster House, E.C. – Biography of Sir Leander Starr Jameson, which notes that Starr's '...chief Gamaliel, however, was a Professor Grant, a man of advanced age, who had been a pupil of his great-uncle, the Professor of Natural History at Edinburgh.' (p. 53). Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892).
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.
Panoramic view of Edinburgh from Blackford Hill (click for larger image) The Edinburgh Royal Observatory Blackford Hill 164 metres (538 ft) is a hill in Edinburgh , the capital city of Scotland . It is in the area of Blackford , between Morningside , and the Braid Hills .