National Library of Scotland

National Library of Scotland
George IV Bridge
Edinburgh
Lothian
EH1 1EW
Scotland

Website

www.nls.uk

E-mail

Telephone

General Enquiries

+44 (0)131-226 4531

Fax

General Enquiries

+44 (0)131-622 4803

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Scotland's largest library and the world centre for the study of Scotland and the Scots. Thanks to our UK legal deposit status, we are also a vast reference library.

Venue Type:

Library, Archive

Opening hours

General Reading Room:

Monday - 09.30-20.30
Tuesday - 09.30-20.30
Wednesday - 10.00-20.30
Thursday - 09.30-20.30
Friday - 09.30-20.30
Saturday - 09.30-13.00

Closed: Sunday

Admission charges

Free admission to Reading Rooms, exhibitions and workshops. Some events are chargeable.

Links

7 million printed books, 120,000 volumes of manuscripts, 1.6 million maps, and over 20,000 newspaper and magazine titles.

Collection details

Archaeology, Archives, Industry, Law and Order, Literature, Maritime, Medicine, Music, Natural Sciences, Religion, Science and Technology, Social History, World Cultures

Key artists and exhibits

Robert Burns
Mary Queen of Scots
Edinburgh Calotype Club
Douglas Haig
Winston Churchill
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Murthly Hours
The Auchinleck Manuscript
Modern Scottish Writers
Edinburgh’s Theatre Royal
Map Library - military and civilian

Events details are listed below. You may need to scroll down or click on headers to see them all. For events that don't have a specific date see the 'Resources' tab above.

Tannahill Lecture: Scottish Literature and Medicine

17 December 2013 6-7pm

From Burns to Janice Galloway, medical practitioners are portrayed (often critically) and consideration is given by Alan Ramsay, Hugh MacDiarmid and many others to what might enhance quality of life or make us truly happy. What can doctors, patients, the public and politicians learn from the portrayal of medicine in Scottish literature? In a work as ancient as AneSatyre of the ThrieEstatis, John the Common Weal offers a political prescription for a good life from which politicians in the 21st century could learn a great deal.