A National Library of Scotland partnership lecture to celebrate Edinburgh900
This fully illustrated talk at the City Art Centre will examine the history of the city through 20 selected maps of Edinburgh, dating from the 1530s through to the present day.
At one level, these maps show a rapidly changing and expanding city over time, with maps growing in detail and content. At another level, the different selection of content in these maps, their changing purposes, their omissions and their changing audiences reveal much more about life within Edinburgh. The talk will also look at the changing way these maps were made, and by whom, charting the rise and fall of Edinburgh as a centre of map publication.
Chris Fleet is Map Curator at the National Library of Scotland. His primary responsibilities have been with digital maps and the Library’s maps website. He has also researched and spoken on the Library's map collections, and is a co-author of 'Edinburgh: Mapping the City' (2014).
About Edinburgh900
Edinburgh has selected 2024 to mark the start of the 900th anniversary of our city, and to tell the story of Edinburgh's journey through the centuries from the 12th century City of David right up to the 21st century, the City of Diversity.
A series of talks at the City Art Centre will celebrate the 10 themes from summer 2024 until August 2025.
The National Library of Scotland will be celebrating its own anniversary in 2025 with special programming in Edinburgh and further afield to mark its Centenary year.
