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ABOUT THE CITY About the City with Peter Bourhill Holyrood Park – have your say! A 12-week consultation (closing on Tuesday 19th December) has been set up by Historic Environment Scotland (HES) to ask the public to have its say on the future of Holyrood Park. Par ticipants will be asked how they currently use the Park, what they believe its priorities should be, and the role Holyrood Park should play in Edinburgh’s future. Par ticipants will also be asked for their feedback on HES’s Outline Strategic Plan which aims to transform the Park into a climate positive asset for Scotland, strengthen its iconic status and provide fur ther wellbeing benefits. The Plan is being shaped with communities and stakeholder s to ensure that future proposals reflect the needs of all Park users. To view the Outline Strategic Plan, and to have your say, visit: www.historicenvironment.scot 100 years of friendship In ear ly October, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) and the British Council - in collaboration with the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and the Embassy of Nepal in London - hosted a reception, exhibition and climate panel discussion to commemorate the centenar y of the UK-Nepal Treaty of Friendship. The discussion was moderated by Charlotte Coles (Deputy Director in the FCDO) on behalf of Minister Trevelyan, and the exper ts on the panel were Prof. Hugh Sinclair from the University of Edinburgh (Geology and Natural Hazards), H.E. Gyan Achar ya - Nepal Ambassador to the UK (National Effor ts and International Cooperation), Dr. Inge Panneels from Edinburgh Napier University (Impact on the economy) and Dr Mark Watson from RBGE (Biodiver sity). Prof Hugh Sinclair, Charlotte Coles, H.E. Gyan Acharya, Simon Milne MBE (Regius Keeper – RBGE), Dr. Inge Panneels and Dr Mark Watson The other Boys in Blue celebrates 140th! Members of The Boys’ Brigade (BB) from Edinburgh and surrounding areas descended on Edinburgh Castle’s Esplanade on Wednesday 4th October to mark the organisation’s 140th bir thday. Edinburgh Castle took the rare step of lighting up the castle in blue and invited BB young people, adult leader s and former members to mark this impor tant milestone. One of the world’s oldest youth movements, the BB was founded by Sir William Smith in Glasgow on October 4th 1883. Edinburgh Battalion formed in 1888 and was closely followed by Leith Battalion. Both ran with great success and eventually merged into Edinburgh, Leith & District Battalion in 1998, covering Edinburgh, East Lothian and Midlothian. www.thebb-edinburgh.org.uk EdinburghLife November/December 2023 4
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For Freedom and Honour In Duddingston Kir kyard, I happened across a tremendously sad and poignant reminder of the sacrifice and emotional pain exacted by the Great War of 1914-18. A few steps from the sarcophagus of famed Minister John Thomson, are three WWI Memorial Plaques, clustered together on the Kir kyard wall. According to a nearby gravestone, these plaques were for William, John and Alexander Hay, the three sons of John and Jeannie Hay, who all ‘fell in The Great War’. Over one million Memorial Plaques (about 5 inches in diameter and often referred to as a ‘Dead Man’s Penny’) were made to commemorate the sacrifice of British and Empire ser vice personnel who were killed in WWI. Each bears the name of ‘the fallen’ and the words He Died for Freedom and Honour. The horrors that these three young men experienced, and the grief their parents must have endured, is unfathomable - but I’ll be thinking of them all, and those ‘pennies’, on Remembrance Sunday. Scottish Portrait Awards 2023 The Scottish Por trait Awards (SPAs) for 2023 has seen ar tist Donna McGlynn win the £5,000 Suther land Independent Scottish Por trait Award in Fine Ar t. The awards ceremony took place at the Scottish Ar ts Club in Rutland Square. www.scottishartstrust.org The winning portrait ABOUT THE CITY Donna McGlynn (Photo: George McBean) Peter Thomson (3rd prize) Mark Mulholland (2nd prize), Gordon Mitchell (Scottish Portrait Award Director and Chair of the Fine Art Panel), Donna McGlynn (1st prize), Anna Robertson (Fine and Applied Art Manager at The McManus and Fine Art Judge), David Reid (Sutherland Independent) and Calum Stevenson (winner Sky Portrait Artist of the Year 2021 and Fine Art Judge.) (Photo: George McBean) Donna McGlynn is congratulated by Sara Cameron McBean, founder and coordinator of the SPAs (Photo: George McBean) November/December 2023 EdinburghLife 5

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ABOUT THE CITY

About the City with

Peter Bourhill

Holyrood Park – have your say! A 12-week consultation (closing on Tuesday 19th December) has been set up by Historic Environment Scotland (HES) to ask the public to have its say on the future of Holyrood Park. Par ticipants will be asked how they currently use the Park, what they believe its priorities should be, and the role Holyrood Park should play in Edinburgh’s future. Par ticipants will also be asked for their feedback on HES’s Outline Strategic Plan which aims to transform the Park into a climate positive asset for Scotland, strengthen its iconic status and provide fur ther wellbeing benefits. The Plan is being shaped with communities and stakeholder s to ensure that future proposals reflect the needs of all Park users. To view the Outline Strategic Plan, and to have your say, visit: www.historicenvironment.scot

100 years of friendship

In ear ly October, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) and the British Council - in collaboration with the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and the Embassy of Nepal in London - hosted a reception, exhibition and climate panel discussion to commemorate the centenar y of the UK-Nepal Treaty of Friendship. The discussion was moderated by Charlotte Coles (Deputy Director in the FCDO) on behalf of Minister

Trevelyan, and the exper ts on the panel were Prof. Hugh Sinclair from the University of Edinburgh (Geology and Natural Hazards), H.E. Gyan Achar ya - Nepal Ambassador to the UK (National Effor ts and International Cooperation), Dr. Inge Panneels from Edinburgh Napier University (Impact on the economy) and Dr Mark Watson from RBGE (Biodiver sity).

Prof Hugh Sinclair, Charlotte Coles, H.E. Gyan Acharya, Simon Milne MBE (Regius Keeper – RBGE), Dr. Inge Panneels and Dr Mark Watson

The other Boys in Blue celebrates 140th! Members of The Boys’ Brigade (BB) from Edinburgh and surrounding areas descended on Edinburgh Castle’s Esplanade on Wednesday 4th October to mark the organisation’s 140th bir thday. Edinburgh Castle took the rare step of lighting up the castle in blue and invited BB young people, adult leader s and former members to mark this impor tant milestone. One of the world’s oldest youth movements, the BB was founded by Sir William Smith in Glasgow on October 4th 1883. Edinburgh Battalion formed in 1888 and was closely followed by Leith Battalion. Both ran with great success and eventually merged into Edinburgh, Leith & District Battalion in 1998, covering Edinburgh, East Lothian and Midlothian. www.thebb-edinburgh.org.uk

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