National Library of Scotland

What's on

Find out about our events and exhibitions in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and online.

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Dear Library: Family story sessions

Reading
16 April 2026, 11:00AM to 11:45AM
A couch and too beanbags covered in books.

Welcome to the Library tours

Tour
16 April 2026, 3:00PM to 3:30PM
The outside of the Library building on George IV Bridge, also showing the people on the footpath outside and traffic on the road.

The 1911 census boycott in Scotland

Talk
16 April 2026, 5:30PM to 6:30PM
Bookshelves in the background. The bookcover of "5 Library terrace, and a photo of Ruth Boreham and Natalie Fergie.

Welcome to the Library tours

Tour
18 April 2026, 11:30AM to 12:00PM
The outside of the Library building on George IV Bridge, also showing the people on the footpath outside and traffic on the road.

Fashion Revolution Week at Kelvin Hall

Display
21 to 25 April 2026
Six archive film stills showing different aspects of textile production.

Creative making: Sketchbooks

Workshop
21 April 2026, 10:30AM to 1:30PM
A sketchbook opened to a page with sketches of red flowers in a vase.

Fashion Revolution Week: 'Clo An Tir' - Cloth of the Land

Talk, Screening, Exhibition
22 April 2026, 6:00PM to 7:30PM
A bodice being stitched by hand flanked by photos of Alis Le May and Jen Ballie.

Bookbug

Workshop
23 April 2026, 10:30AM to 11:00AM
The bookbug on a green background

Glasgow Knitwear: Twomax and Knitting in Scotland

Screening, Display
23 April 2026, 2:00PM to 3:00PM
Three people working in a Twomax knitwear factory sewing yellow jumpers.

Welcome to the Library tours

Tour
23 April 2026, 3:00PM to 3:30PM
The outside of the Library building on George IV Bridge, also showing the people on the footpath outside and traffic on the road.

Agnes Owens in the archives

Talk
23 April 2026, 5:30PM to 6:30PM
A photo of Agnes Owens surrounded by book covers of books she has written including A Working Mother and People Like That.

Cardboard loom weaving workshop

Workshop
25 April 2026, 10:30AM to 3:30PM
Cardboard weaving looms with stripes of coloured yarn.