More Petticoats and Pinnacles - Lauriston Castle Lectures
Schedule
Thu Jun 04 2026 at 10:30 am to 12:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Lauriston Castle | Edinburgh, SC
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Thursday 4 June, 10.30amMore Petticoats and Pinnacles
Women have had a long, but sometimes over-looked, relationship with mountains and wild places. As artists, writers, explorers and climbers they have pushed frontiers and challenged and changed social attitudes. Focussing on the 1920s Curator Paula Williams will again delve into the National Library of Scotland’s collections to show how more women have picked up their skirts and scaled the heights! Following on from a degree in physical geography from University of Aberdeen, involving surveying glaciated valleys in the Grampians, Paula’s first professional job was as Community Librarian at Aboyne on Deeside, living on the very road that Nan Shepherd would have used to access her beloved Cairngorms. Weekends spent among the mountains has led to an abiding love of high places.
Paula’s career developed at the Bodleian Library as an antiquarian map curator before moving to her current role of Map, Mountaineering & Polar Curator at the National Library of Scotland.
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Lauriston Castle, Japanese Friendship Garden, Edinburgh, EH4 5, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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