'If a landscape ‘speaks’, can we hear it?' with Aonghus Mackechnie

Name: 'If a landscape ‘speaks’, can we hear it?' with Aonghus Mackechnie
Start: 2025-11-10T18:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-10T19:30:00+00:00
Location: Augustine United Church

AHSS Forth & Borders Group

Highlights

Mon, 10 Nov, 2025 at 06:30 pm

1 hour

Augustine United Church

Starting at GBP 2

Date & Location

Mon, 10 Nov, 2025 at 06:30 pm to 07:30 pm (GMT+00:00)

Augustine United Church

41 George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

About the event

'If a landscape ‘speaks’, can we hear it?' with Aonghus Mackechnie

In this joint lecture with Scotland’s Garden and Landscape Heritage, Professor Aonghus MacKechnie will take us on a tour of Scotland, geogra

About this Event

From the medieval West Highlands and Gaelic society, the talk ranges through Early Modern Scotland, the exploitation of history and the ‘signage’ used by the Stewart monarchy, through to post-1660s classicism; moving then on to the Ages of Romanticism and Improvement, and that of militarism after the Battle of Sheriffmuir in 1715.

AHSS Forth & Borders Group Winter Lecture Series

£6 online/in-person | £2 students

All of our events are hybrid with options to attend either in-person or online via Zoom.
Venue is wheelchair accessible.
Online ticket sales end at 5 pm on the day of the event.