Edinburgh: A History of the City Book Launch

Blackwell Bookshop
South Bridge, Edinburgh
6.15pm
Free but ticketed

Blackwell is very happy to present an evening with Michael Fry and his wonderful book about our great city – Edinburgh: a history of the city.

The late poet laureate, Sir John Betjeman, said that Edinburgh was the most beautiful city in Europe. Like some other great cities it is set on seven hills. But only one of these, Rome, rivals Edinburgh in matching the beauty of its setting with the stateliness of its buildings. A romantic landscape of sea and hills, broad vistas and hidden corners is embellished by a style of architecture combining stern classicism with antiquarian whimsy. Edinburgh, too, provides the backdrop to much of the dark drama of the Scottish past, but the 1,500 year history of the city itself deserves wider telling. Long ruled by a strait-laced professional bourgeoisie, Edinburgh never suppressed a livelier side, peopled by figures comic or brutal, eccentric or gruesome.

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  Edinburgh: A History Of The City - Michael Fry - Hardback
  Michael Fry, who has lived & work in Edinburgh for nearly 40 years, provides a compellingly readable account of this great city, from the earliest times to the present, balancing Edinburgh's cultural, political & social history, & shows how they have borne on one another.

For more information please contact Claire Leach on 0131 622 8206 or events.edinburgh@blackwell.co.uk