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 31, 2022 threadinburgh

The thread about the Royal Mint of Scotland; what connects it to a pioneering school for the city’s poorest children, and how it has continued to serve marginalised people in the city

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

September 27, 2022September 27, 2022 threadinburgh

The thread about the worst school in the world; why it is unfairly linked with a very different Edinburgh establishment of the same name; and what it has to do with the shortest serving PM of the 20th century