Architectural Heritage Society- Forth and Borders Group Winter Lecture Series 2015-16

ANTHONY LEWIS – The Builders of Edinburgh’s first New Town, 1767-1795

Dr Anthony Lewis is curator of Scottish History for Glasgow Life/Glasgow Museums, where he has worked since 1992. At the same time he began researching Edinburgh’s New Town in preparation for the exhibition about James Craig at the Edinburgh New Town in 1995. He has been a member of the AHSS for years and even attended Forth and Borders Cases Panel meetings. On the same day in 2006 he was promoted to curator and was awarded his PhD by Edinburgh University for his research on the builders of Edinburgh first New Town. In 2014 his book based on his PhD was published.

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http://www.ahss.org.uk/events/536/forth-borders-group-anthony-lewis-the-builders-of-edinburgh-s-first-new-town-1767-1795