Qualla: University of Edinburgh https://qualla.com/university-of-edinburgh en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:17 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/w/university-of-edinburgh-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: University of Edinburgh https://qualla.com/university-of-edinburgh University of Edinburgh: Introduction https://qualla.com/university-of-edinburgh/ Photo credit Allan Ramsay, Public domain. Voltaire called Edinburgh a hotbed of genius. Benjamin Franklin called the university's faculty as truly great men as have ever appeared in any age or country. Thomas Jefferson said that as far as science was concerned, no place in the world could pretend to a competition with Edinburgh. They were not exaggerating. Between 1750 and 1800 the University of Edinburgh produced and attracted David Hume and Adam Smith, William Cullen and Joseph Black, Dugald Stewart and Adam Ferguson, all of them teaching concurrently. James Hutton, the man who discovered deep geological time, walked these streets. The Enlightenment was not a metaphor here. It was a faculty meeting.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/w/university-of-edinburgh-wp/gcvw-university-of-edinburgh-the-royal-charter-and-the-town-council.mp3 0:06 2 full University of Edinburgh: The Scottish Enlightenment https://qualla.com/university-of-edinburgh/ Photo credit James Heath (engraver) after Henry Raeburn, Public domain. The university's structure produced its intellectual harvest. Unlike Oxford and Cambridge, Edinburgh was a single entity rather than a collection of loosely connected colleges; this encouraged the kind of academic exchange that creates new fields. It adopted the more flexible Dut...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/w/university-of-edinburgh-wp/gcvw-university-of-edinburgh-the-anatomy-theatre-and-the-murderers.mp3 0:06 4 full University of Edinburgh: The Edinburgh Seven https://qualla.com/university-of-edinburgh/ Photo credit Spillerjzy, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 1869, seven women led by Sophia Jex-Blake matriculated to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh. They were the first group of matriculated undergraduate women at any British university. The institution did not actually want them. The university blocked them from gradua...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/w/university-of-edinburgh-wp/gcvw-university-of-edinburgh-the-edinburgh-seven.mp3 0:06 5 full University of Edinburgh: The Snowball War https://qualla.com/university-of-edinburgh/ Photo credit Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0. Edinburgh produced laureates and revolutions. It also, on one occasion in 1838, produced a snowball fight that lasted two days. In what the press called the Edinburgh snowball riots, or the Wars of the Quadrangle, students started throwing snowballs at each other in a spirit of h...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/w/university-of-edinburgh-wp/gcvw-university-of-edinburgh-the-snowball-war.mp3 0:06 6 full University of Edinburgh: Dolly the Sheep and Beyond https://qualla.com/university-of-edinburgh/ Photo credit Honge, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 1996 the Roslin Institute, which became part of the university's Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies in 2008, cloned Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell. The university also founded the Polish School of Medicine in 1941 as a wartime academ...

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