Tag: Edinburgh
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Who’s Who in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery Processional Frieze Part 1
Look out for the head and shoulders portrait of James Boswell in the Great Frieze (Hole in 1897-1898) above the foyer of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. When I visit I always go straight there…I see him, and then I relax. Do it and remember how awesome he was.
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Where is David Hume Buried? Visiting the Philosopher’s Tomb in Edinburgh.
No-one knows who David Hume is these days. He’s only the greatest philosopher ever to have written in English, that’s who. His mausoleum can be found in the Old Calton Cemetery, Edinburgh, and I went there recently to see his burial place; a man who I think was absolutely AMAZING.…
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The Edinburgh Tomb of Economist Adam Smith
Go to Edinburgh. Go to the Canongate. Make your way downhill. Look out for the Canongate Kirk on your left. Enter the Kirk gates – they should be open during the day. Turn left inside the gates. Follow the path. Keep walking round to the left. You will see a…
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Boswell’s Options for a Journey to London were on Foot, on Hoof or by Wheel
There were only three ways to travel between Scotland and London in the Eighteenth century: by foot, on horseback or by wheeled carriage. (Actually, you could take a boat, from Leith for example, but it wasn’t until the 1850s when a person could travel by rail out of Scotland and…