Visualising Urban Geographies Launch Event

Are you interested in Edinburgh's history and a new electronic resource for examining its history through maps? This launch event will describe and appraise the new online resources created by the Visualising Urban Geographies project. This collaborative project between the University of Edinburgh and National Library of Scotland has brought together sets of historical maps, census and address-based information to allow new ways of understanding Edinburgh's history. The launch complements the workshop held in December and will include talks and demonstrations from those directly involved in the project, as well as external speakers, reviewing it and setting it in context.

Programme:

2.00-2.10	Professor Ewen Cameron, School of History, Classics and Archaeology
	‘Welcome’
2.10-2.45	Professor Richard Rodger and Stuart Nicol, School of History, Classics and Archaeology
	‘The VUG project: aims and outcomes’
2.45-3.00	Chris Fleet, National Library of Scotland
	‘The NLS, mapping initiatives and VUG’

3.00-3.30	Questions and Answers
	Break: tea and biscuits

3.30-4.00	Professor Bob Morris, School of History, Classics and Archaeology
	‘Reflections of a user on the VUG initiative’
4.00-4.30	Dr. Bruce Gittings, Institute of Geography
	‘Geography, Space, Time and the Final Frontier?’
4.30-5.30	Wine Reception

Place:	Board Room, National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh
Time:	2.00-4.30 pm, Thursday 24 February 2011

Please register or phone 0131 623 3918 to confirm attendance and book your free place.