# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Dust, Disease and Discovery: Edinburgh’s Hidden Occupational History
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 10 Nov, 2026 at 02:30 pm – Tue, 10 Nov, 2026 at 03:30 pm (+00:00)
- **Event Description**: Discover how 19th-century Edinburgh revealed the link between workplace dust and lung disease in miners and stonemasons.About this EventIn celebration of National Pathology Week, join Professor Ken Donaldson, Surgeons’ Hall Museums Senior Research Fellow, and practising pathologist Edmund Joseph as they uncover the stories of two occupational lung diseases in 19th-century Edinburgh. From the coal-blackened lungs of miner John Hogg to the stonemasons who built Edinburgh’s New Town, discover how pioneering observations helped reveal the deadly connection between dust, occupation and lung disease and transformed our understanding of coal workers’ pneumoconiosis and silicosis.Age Guidance: 16+Important Refund Information: Please note that added to your ticket prices is a 96p booking charge which is non-refundable. This is part of Eventbrite terms and conditions and is not at the discretion of Surgeons' Hall Museums.Content Warning: The collections contain human remains as well as representations of anatomy, injury, and disease that some may find upsetting.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/edinburgh/dust-disease-and-discovery-edinburghs-hidden-occupational-history/100002000146942347
- **Event Categories**: fitness
- **Interested Audience**: 
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- **Event Highlights**: 
  - Duration: 1 hour
  - Location: Surgeons' Hall Museum
  - Languages: English

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket Price Range**: min: 3.96, max: 3.96, currency: GBP

## Event venue details

- **city**: Edinburgh
- **state**: SC
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: Surgeons' Hall Museum
- **lat**: 55.9466549
- **long**: -3.1852781
- **full address**: Surgeons' Hall Museum, Surgeons Hall Museum, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Dust, Disease and Discovery: Edinburgh s Hidden Occupational History being held?
  - **A:** Dust, Disease and Discovery: Edinburgh s Hidden Occupational History takes place on Tue, 10 Nov, 2026 at 02:30 pm to Tue, 10 Nov, 2026 at 03:30 pm at Surgeons' Hall Museum, Surgeons Hall Museum, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Dust, Disease and Discovery: Edinburgh s Hidden Occupational History?
  - **A:** Dust, Disease and Discovery: Edinburgh s Hidden Occupational History is organized by Surgeons' Hall Museums.

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