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'The Bombing of Edinburgh'
Fri 30 May
|Edinburgh
A Lecture to Celebrate the Edinburgh 900: City of Conflict
Time & Location
30 May 2025, 14:00 – 15:00
Edinburgh, 2 Market St, Edinburgh EH1 1DE, UK
About the event
Our city is 900 years old this year and to celebrate, there's a big programme of events and activities taking place from July '24 through into 2025 across our capital. I'm delighted to have been asked, to be part of the event and will be holding a talk on 'The Bombing of Edinburgh' on Friday 30th May 2025 at the City Arts Centre at 2pm.
Although Edinburgh was not 'blitzed' like London or Clydebank, from the first raid of October 1939 to 1942 the city was regularly attacked by German Bombers.
Digging deep into the the old city police archives, and with access to the original crime scene photographs, I will tell the story of The World War 2 bombing of Edinburgh. From farce to utter tragedy this is a new insight into Edinburgh's battle against Hitler's Luftwaffe.