Upcoming Events

Treasures of the Library

Date(s): 26 March 2025

Time: 11am and 12pm

Cost: £6.68-£9.95

Booking Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/treasures-of-the-library-tickets-1105625448479?aff=oddtdtcreator

The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh’s Library and Archive are delighted to offer the opportunity to view some of our rare collections not on public display. The College Library and Archive, which has its origins in the seventeenth century, has accumulated a world-renowned collection of significant surgical, medical and historical texts from…

Lunch Time Talk: Elsie Inglis

Date(s): 30 April 2025

Time: 1.15pm

Cost: £3

Age Restrictions: 16+

Booking Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/elsie-inglis-tickets-1268795213639?aff=oddtdtcreator&mc_cid=8191b4f3bd&mc_eid=ee66245525

Join us for this bite sized lunch time talk exploring the history of medicine. In this talk retired Surgeon and former Vice Presedent of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Iain MacIntyre will discuss pioneering Surgeon and womens rights activist Elsie Inglis. Here how Inglis opened a hospital for women and children in Edinburgh, was active …

Lunch Time Talk: A Tale of Two Henrys – the Story of ‘Gray’s Anatomy’

Date(s): 14 May 2025

Time: 1.15pm

Cost: £3

Age Restrictions: 16+

Booking Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-tale-of-two-henrys-the-story-of-grays-anatomy-tickets-1252990300719?aff=oddtdtcreator

Join us for this bite sized lunch time talk exploring the history of medicine. College Librarian Steven Kerr looks at the origins and legacy of the most famous medical textbook of all time - “Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical”, produced in 1858 by anatomists Henry Gray and Henry Vandyke Carter. The talk will include the difficult relationship betw…

Ruxton: The First Modern Murder

Date(s): 15 May 2025

Time: 6.30pm

Cost: £3

Age Restrictions: 16+

Booking Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ruxton-the-first-modern-murder-tickets-1253064452509?aff=oddtdtcreator

Join us on Thursday the 15th of May for an evening lecture at Surgeons’ Hall Library, which will be presented by Tom Wood. Tom Wood was one of Scotland's most senior and experienced police officers. Formerly Deputy Chief Constable and Director of Operation for Lothian and Borders Police, he is an authority on serious and violent crime and the poli…

'The Death of Shame' by Ambrose Parry

Date(s): 2 June 2025

Time: 6.30pm

Cost: £3

Age Restrictions: 16+

Booking Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-death-of-shame-by-ambrose-parry-tickets-1263891165499?aff=oddtdtcreator&mc_cid=8191b4f3bd&mc_eid=ee66245525

Surgeons' Hall Museums are delighted to welcome Ambrose Parry for the launch of their new book 'The Death of Shame'. Join us in conversation with Chris Brookmyer and Marisa Haetzman as we get under the skin of their new book 'The Death of Shame'. Ambrose Parry is a pseudonym for a collaboration between Chris Brookmyre and Marisa Haetzman. The coupl…

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