November 23, 2022 threadinburgh

The thread about how Edinburgh’s Victorian school architects tried to stamp out left-handedness; how German thinking and London styling heavily influenced their work, and a spot of Victorian NIMBYism

November 7, 2022November 23, 2022 threadinburgh

The thread about interwar school design in Edinburgh; how the bricks and mortar of education were mobilised in the City’s “Crusade Against Consumption”

October 23, 2022 threadinburgh

The thread about Egon Riss, the Austrian Jew who fled the Holocaust and settled in Edinburgh to help reconstruct and define the appearance of the postwar Scottish mining industry