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Subtopics - Places

•  Arthur's Seat: The plug of a long extinct volcano that forms the largest hill in Edinburgh. ^[e]
•  Royal Palace of Holyroodhouse: An official residence of the monarch, located in Edinburgh, Scotland. ^[e]
•  John Knox House: 15th century town house in Edinburgh, it displays exhibits about John Knox. ^[e]
•  Greyfriars Bobby: Nineteenth-century Syke Terrier in Edinburgh, Scotland who became famous for keeping vigil by his master's grave every day (barring extreme weather) for fourteen years. ^[e]
•  Greyfriars Kirk: Now 'Greyfriars Tolbooth & Highland Kirk', is a parish kirk (church) of the Church of Scotland and one of the oldest surviving buildings in Edinburgh outside the Old Town, built between 1602 and c.1620. ^[e]
•  Scottish Parliament: Legislative body of Scotland, having authority over many aspects of Scottish political life including Health and Education; re-created by the Act of Devolution 1997. ^[e]
• The Forth Bridge: Cantilever railway bridge, built in 1883-1890, that connects Edinburgh to Fife ^[e]
•  Royal Mile: The streets in Edinburgh's Old Town that run from Holyrood Palace to Edinburgh Castle. ^[e]
•  University of Edinburgh: Founded in 1582, one of the leading academic institutions in the UK. ^[e]
•  Auld Reekie: Old nickname for Edinburgh, Scotland, meaning old smokey. ^[e]

Subtopics - Societies

• The Edinburgh Phrenological Society: Established in 1820, became the leading phrenological society of the U.K. and established Edinburgh as a major centre of phrenology in the 19th century. ^[e]
• The Royal Society of Edinburgh: Scotland's National Academy of Science & Letters; created in 1783 by Royal Charter for “the advancement of learning and useful knowledge.” ^[e]
• The Edinburgh Mathematical Society: Founded in 1883 for "the mutual improvement of its members in the Mathematical Sciences, pure and applied." ^[e]
• The Old Edinburgh Club: Local history society, founded in 1908 with the aim of recording the vanishing evidence of Edinburgh's history, its buildings and its past inhabitants. ^[e]
• The Edinburgh Bibliographical Society: The oldest continuing Society of its kind, founded in 1890. ^[e]
• The Edinburgh Geological Society: Founded in 1834 with the aim of stimulating public interest in geology and the advancement of geological knowledge. ^[e]
•  Edinburgh Free Thinkers' Zetetic Society: Formed in 1820 to provide support for the republican and freethinking publisher Richard Carlile and his family after Carlile had been imprisoned for blasphemy. ^[e],

Subtopics - People

•  Thomas Aikenhead: The last person to be executed for blasphemy in the UK. ^[e]
•  John Knox: Scottish clergyman (1514-1572), leader of the Scottish Reformation and founder of Scottish Presbyterianism. ^[e]
•  William Brodie: (1741 - 1788) Respectable Edinburgh citizen who led a gang of burglars and died on a gallows that he himself had designed. ^[e]
•  William Burke: (1792 - 1829) Prisoner hanged in Edinburgh's Lawnmarket in 1829 for his role in the West Port Murders. ^[e]
• Mary, Queen of Scots: (8 December 1542 – 8 February 1857) Mary Stuart (or Stewart), Queen of Scotland (1542–67) and queen consort of France (1559–60); forced to flee to England after a rebellion among Scottish nobles, she was finally beheaded as a Roman Catholic threat to the English throne. ^[e]
•  Helen Duncan: (1897 – 1956), a Scottish medium who became the last person to be imprisoned in the United Kingdom under the Witchcraft Act of 1735. ^[e]
•  Thomas Muir: (1765 – 1799) Scottish political reformer, and the most notable victim of political repression in the years after the French Revolution. ^[e]
• Earl Haig: (Sir Douglas Haig, 1861–1928); during World War I, commander-in-chief of the British Expeditionary Forces in France and Flanders from December 1915 until the Armistice. ^[e]
• Marie Stopes: (1880-1958), campaigner for women's rights and pioneer of birth control. ^[e]

Poets

•  Thomas Blacklock: (1721 - 1791) The"blind poet", an early supporter of Robert Burns. ^[e]
•  Robert Burns: The National poet of Scotland (1759-96); writer of Auld Lang Syne. ^[e]
•  Robert Fergusson: (1750 - 1774) Scottish poet whose verse inspired Robert Burns. ^[e]
•  William McGonagall: (1825-1902) Scotland's (and possibly the world's) worst poet. ^[e]
•  Allan Ramsay (1686–1758): Poet who wrote mainly in the Scots vernacular, and is best known for his pastoral verse-play "The Gentle Shepherd". ^[e]

Writers

• James Boswell: Add brief definition or description
• Robert Chambers: Add brief definition or description
• Arthur Conan-Doyle: Add brief definition or description
•  Daniel Defoe: Add brief definition or description
•  John Home: Add brief definition or description
• Alexander McCall-Smith: Add brief definition or description
• Ian Rankin: Add brief definition or description
• JK Rowling: Add brief definition or description
• Sir Walter Scott: Add brief definition or description
• Muriel Spark: Add brief definition or description
•  Robert Louis Stevenson: Add brief definition or description
•  James Tytler: Add brief definition or description

Artists

•  Allan Ramsay: Add brief definition or description
• Robert Adam: Add brief definition or description
• Henry Raeburn: Add brief definition or description

Academics and Scientists

•  Joseph Black: Add brief definition or description
• Hugh Blair: Add brief definition or description
•  James Burnet, Lord Monboddo: Add brief definition or description
•  James Croll: Add brief definition or description
•  William Cullen: Add brief definition or description
•  Charles Darwin: Add brief definition or description Darwin began training as a physician in Edinburgh in 1825 at the age of 16; his father, Robert, and grandfather Erasmus had both been trained there, but Charles found the lectures "intolerably dull," and he left after two years.
•  Erasmus Darwin: Add brief definition or description
• Peter Higgs: Add brief definition or description
•  Henry Home, Lord Kames: Add brief definition or description
•  David Hume: Add brief definition or description
•  Adam Ferguson: Add brief definition or description
•  John Forbes: Add brief definition or description
• Archibald Geikie: Add brief definition or description
• James Geikie: Add brief definition or description
•  James Hutton: Add brief definition or description
•  James Lind: Add brief definition or description
•  Alexander Monro primus: Add brief definition or description
•  Alexander Monro secundus: Add brief definition or description
•  John Playfair: Add brief definition or description
•  William Robertson: Add brief definition or description
• Daniel Rutherford: Add brief definition or description
• Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer: Add brief definition or description
•  Adam Smith: Add brief definition or description
•  Dugald Stewart: Add brief definition or description

Politicians

•  Tony Blair: Add brief definition or description
•  Gordon Brown: Add brief definition or description
•  James Connolly: Add brief definition or description Connolly was born in the Cowgate - then a slum area of Edinburgh's Old Town, nicknamed "Little Ireland."
•  Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet: Add brief definition or description (In The Statistical Accounts of Scotland)

Parent topics

•  Scotland: Add brief definition or description
•  Great Britain: Add brief definition or description
•  United Kingdom: Add brief definition or description
•  European Union: Add brief definition or description

Town and cities

•  Glasgow: Add brief definition or description
• Inverness: Add brief definition or description
• Dundee: Add brief definition or description
• Aberdeen: Add brief definition or description

Other related topics

•  Scottish Enlightenment: Add brief definition or description

Language

• Scots language: Add brief definition or description
• Scottish Gaelic language: Add brief definition or description
• Scottish English: Add brief definition or description
•  English language: Add brief definition or description