December 6, 2022December 7, 2022 threadinburgh

The thread about two very different Edinburgh schools that were built at the same time, for two very different visions of secondary education (and why Boroughmuir was built wrong. Twice.)

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 15, 2022 threadinburgh

The thread about the Sciennes School Strike of 1925; why it was stoked by political sectarianism and how a group of mothers stood up to the authorities and won