National Library of Scotland

What's on

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

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River, stream, water: How Gaelic flows through the landscape

Talk
19 September 2026, 2:00PM to 3:00PM
View of a loch and glen in Glencoe.

Open Book

Reading
21 September 2026, 10:15AM to 11:15AM
A group of people sitting around a table reading books.

Bookbug

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

Welcome to the Library tours

Tour
24 September 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.

A celebration of the dreich

Talk
24 September 2026, 5:30PM to 6:30PM
Book cover with the title "Scotland the Dreich, a celebration of all that is dreich". Showing a caravan on the side of the road in a drizzly landscape.

Welcome to the Library tours

Tour
26 September 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.

Open Book

Reading
28 September 2026, 10:15AM to 11:15AM
A group of people sitting around a table reading books.

Welcome to the Library tours

Tour
1 October 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.

'Where Wind and Water Cleave: An Environmental History of Scotland'

Talk
1 October 2026, 5:30PM to 6:30PM
Book cover for 'Where wind and water cleave' and photo of Richard Oram.

Welcome to the Library tours

Tour
3 October 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.

Adult autism-friendly sessions at Kelvin Hall

Workshop
2 December 2026, 2:00PM to 3:30PM
A box of objects from the 1970s, including a cookbook, a Star Wars figure and a tin of instant mashed potato.