Elisa Smirnova – Open.Ed

Curiouser and curiouser. A year’s update on the Curious Edinburgh project

30th July 2026 Elisa Smirnova

It’s been a year (and two months) since I started to migrate Curious Edinburgh, and the newborn website is live! To re-introduce, Curious Edinburgh is an open access platform which houses digital tours of Edinburgh and the Lothians. The tours are broken down into Community, Coastal and tours on the History of Science, Technology and […]

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Whose world heritage? Quick reflection on student workers in Scotland and local history

18th August 2025 Elisa Smirnova

It seemed as if the rock and castle assumed a new aspect every time I looked at them, and Arthur’s Seat was perfect witchcraft. I rambled about the Bridges and Calton Height yesterday, in a perfect intoxication of the mind. Washington Irving, an American writer and author of ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’, wrote this […]

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