Upcoming Events

May 2025

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…

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…