Tag Archive | "Central Library"

Women in Comics – Hysterical Women and Graphic Grrrlz in Edinburgh

Thursday, May 10, 2012

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Last week I was lucky enough to catch a busy talk in Edinburgh’s Central Library, Hysterical Women and Graphic Grrrlz. Heather Middleton from the Glasgow Women’s Library and also a member of Glasgow-based all-female collective Team Girl Comic. Heather was giving a talk on the history of women in comics and while there is no [...]

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Hysterical Women & Graphic Grrlz exhibition

Monday, April 30, 2012

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Last week I flagged up the upcoming Hysterical Women & Graphic Grrlz talk at Edinburgh’s Central Library, which is due to take place this Wednesday evening. The event is now sold out (well, not sold as such, it is free, but limited space meant tickets and those are now all accounted for) so sadly if [...]

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Hysterical Women and Graphic Grrrlz

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

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Edinburgh’s lovely Central Library (opposite the National Library on George IV Bridge, just one bridge along from the Edinburgh FPI as it happens) is holding a very interesting-sounding event next week, Hysterical Women and Graphic Grrrlz. Illustrator and zinemaker Heather Middleton will give a talk on on the diverse types of comics created by female [...]

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Burke and Hare events in Edinburgh tomorrow

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

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A reminder that we have Martin Conaghan and Will Pickering coming to our Edinburgh store on Southbridge tomorow -  Thursday January 28th – to sign copies of their recently published Burke and Hare graphic novel (reviewed here by Richard); for those with a literary bent and a fascination for history the boys will also be [...]

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Iain Banks at Edinburgh’s Central Library

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

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Top science fiction author Iain M Banks will be taking part in the Edinburgh City Reads programme run by the good folks at Edinburgh’s libraries. Iain will be in conversation with writer and journalist Alan Taylor in Central Library on George IV Bridge (the bridge that runs parallel to our Edinburgh store, directly opposite the [...]

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