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Inside the November/ December issue of Edinburgh Life
Features
We focus on the Regency era in Edinburgh in this festive issue, with many features drawn from this pivotal period in the city’s history.
Alexander Nasmyth’s wonderful 1825 Princes Street painting, capturing the city on the brink of monumental change.
The return home of Calton Hill’s 1788 Panorama revives a landmark vision of the Enlightenment age.
Jane Austen’s fascinating links with Edinburgh uncover the novelist’s connections to Scottish society and its influential circles.
The Cockburn Association marks 150 years campaigning for our city’s civic beauty, echoing the conservation spirit ignited in Regency times.
Fast forward to the 1920’s, Alfred Buckham, the daredevil pilot who took the first aerial photos of our city, provides a thrilling bird’s-eye perspective on Edinburgh’s evolving landscape, in a new exhibition at the Portrait gallery.
Food & Drink
Experience seasonal flavours with a festive roasted partridge recipe from acclaimed Edinburgh chef Roberta Hall McCarron of The Little Chartroom, perfect for the Christmas.
A review of the Italian restaurant, Sotto, in Stockbridge,
PLUS food and drink hotspots this festive season.
Society
Class of ’69 Royal (Dick) Vets’ reunion; Edinburgh’s Bonnetmakers and Dyers annual dinner; 603 (City of Edinburgh) Squadron centenary civic reception; Edinburgh’s Oyster Club visits The Grange Club in Stockbridge and Quest/Q11 celebrates 80 years of Youth Fellowship at Greenbank Church.
What’s On
Ten varied suggestions for events and activities this winter in Edinburgh and the Lothians.
