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Semester 1

The History of Edinburgh: From Din Eidyn to Festival City (HIST08036)

Subject

History

College

CAHSS

Credits

20

Normal Year Taken

1

Delivery Session Year

2023/2024

Pre-requisites

**Please see Additional Restrictions below**

Course Summary

The course charts the history of Edinburgh from its early medieval origins to its modern incarnation as Scotland's political and cultural capital. The focus on the development of the city will allow aspects of the wider history of Scotland over the same time period to be explored.

Course Description

The History of Edinburgh: From Din Eidyn to Festival City is designed to introduce students not registered for History degree programmes to the history of the city in which they are studying. The lecture series will highlight both the way in which the built environment and physical layout of the city has been shaped by historical processes, and how extant buildings, monuments and objects can be used to illuminate the concerns and ambitions of those societies that have occupied the area from the early-medieval period onwards. Tutorials will focus on the analysis of primary sources, textual and visual, that will foster student understanding of the way in which the city has developed through time. At the end of the course students will have an enhanced understanding of the cultural, political, social and institutional history of the city and the university. Week 1. Beginnings: early history and landscape; 2. Castle and cross: the burgh founded; 3. Scotland's capital city; 4. Living in early modern Edinburgh; 5. Town and gown: popular politics and the university; 6. Enlightenment Edinburgh; 7. Political life in 18th and 19th century Edinburgh; 8. A tale of two cities: different Edinburghs; 9. The Victorian city remodelled; 10. Twentieth century changes; 11. The Festival City

Assessment Information

Written Exam 0%, Coursework 100%, Practical Exam 0%

Additional Restrictions

**Please note that spaces on History courses are limited and cannot be guaranteed for any students who are not nominated to study with us on a History exchange agreement.** Unless you are nominated on a History or HCA exchange agreement, visiting students are only permitted to enrol in two 1st/2nd year History courses each, per semester, before the start of the relevant semester’s welcome period – and spaces on each course are limited so cannot be guaranteed for any student. This includes courses in Economic History and Scottish History. Enrolment in a third course from this group will depend on whether there are still spaces available in the September Welcome Period, and cannot be guaranteed. It is NOT appropriate for students to contact staff within this subject area to ask for an exception to be made; all enquiries to enrol in these courses must be made through the CAHSS Visiting Student Office. This is due to the limited number of spaces available in this very popular subject area.

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