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Fully booked An old map of Scotland showing from Aberdeen to the Hebrides.
Talk

Stories, surveys, and spies in Renaissance map-making

Thursday 26 September 2024

5:30 PM to 6:30 PM

George IV Bridge building
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A series of images, including blue and white watercolour sketches showing abstract shapes, and photos of Anton Floyd and Marcas Mac an Tuairneir
Talk

National Poetry Day: Poems of the Dispossessed

Thursday 3 October 2024

5:30 PM to 6:30 PM

George IV Bridge building
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Hands holding a cassette tape.
Talk

Tape Letters Scotland: Migration on tape

Tuesday 8 October 2024

5:30 PM to 6:30 PM

George IV Bridge building
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Two people stand in front of a Renaissance era map of Europe in our ‘Renaissance: Scotland and Europe’ exhibition.
Talk

Scottish Renaissance women in print

Thursday 10 October 2024

5:30 PM to 6:30 PM

George IV Bridge building
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A black and white illustration of someone writing with a quill by a fire. On the boarder there are three birds, including a rooster, and a fox down the bottom.
Talk

Lanternis Bricht: Scotland's European Renaissance

Thursday 17 October 2024

2:00 PM to 3:00 PM

George IV Bridge building
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A photo of Juano Diaz next to the book cover of his book 'Slum Boy'. The book cover is a black and white photo of a boy kicking a trashcan outside in a messy-looking area.
Talk

Juano Diaz's 'Slum Boy': growing up in the care system

Tuesday 22 October 2024

5:30 PM to 6:30 PM

George IV Bridge building
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Talk

Fox, Swallow, Scarecrow with writer Éilís Ní Dhuibhne

Wednesday 23 October 2024

2:00 PM to 3:00 PM

George IV Bridge building
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To the left, portraits of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, separated by a red crack. To the right, images of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris speaking at rallies, separated by a red crack.
Talk

US presidential politics then and now

Thursday 24 October 2024

5:30 PM to 6:30 PM

George IV Bridge building
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Fully booked Repeated black line illustrations of a book that says "Magic book", a moon, a vase, and a lightning bolt.
Talk

Stories of Renaissance 'Witches'

Thursday 31 October 2024

5:30 PM to 6:30 PM

George IV Bridge building
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On the left had side of the book there is an ink portrait of a woman on the left with the name "Esther Inglis" written either side of it. On the right hand side There is a printed poem with three red flowers painted above it.
Talk

The works and words of Esther Inglis

Thursday 7 November 2024

5:30 PM to 6:30 PM

George IV Bridge building
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A group portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson, family and Samoan household employees on the veranda of his home in Samoa. The photo is in a frame and lying on patterned tapa cloth.
Talk

Samoa and Stevenson

Wednesday 13 November 2024

5:30 PM to 6:30 PM

George IV Bridge building
Ticketed Free
A close-up of the first editions of the Broons and the Dandy, from the National Library of Scotland's collections.
Talk

Told in pictures: the comics and storytelling of DC Thomson

Thursday 21 November 2024

5:30 PM to 6:30 PM

George IV Bridge building

Past exhibitions and displays

Explore some of the exhibitions and displays held at the National Library of Scotland since 2003.