Calton Hill’s Monuments and Buildings- Edinburgh, Scotland History

This video attempts to make sense of what the monuments and buildings of Calton Hill are able to tell us about the history of Edinburgh.

This video was first used as a multimedia project for the University of Edinburgh.

It has been published on YouTube with the permission of all contributors. The voice, slide show and script has been edited and put together by myself.

References:

All Images reproduced from canmore.org collection or with creative commons license unless otherwise stated

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Ritchie, Rev. John. Speech of Rev. John Ritchie, A.M., D.D., Delivered at the Complete Suffrage Banquet, Given in Honour of the Scottish Political Martyrs of 1793 at the laying of the Foundation Stone of their Monument by Joseph Hume, Esq., M.P. (Edinburgh: Andrew Jack, Printer, 1844).

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Music

Master of the Feast by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
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