Remembering Scotland’s witches
Last week we looked at Edinburgh’s lamentable monuments. This week we look at monuments that are there, but that could be (a lot) better.
Find out more about the Witches of Scotland Campaign at https://www.witchesofscotland.com/
Edinburgh's Lamentable Monuments
History is written by the winners and not only on the pages of books, it’s in our streets, our mountains and in the monuments we raise. The naming of these is important because it fires our sense of our self – culturally, socially and politically. Scotland’s past is mixed. We were a country of colonialists, a country where many people profited from the Transatlantic slave trade. A country where a world-renowned philosopher – a hero of the Enlightenment – wrote that black people were inferior to white.
What if we re-imagine our country, what if we re-imagine Edinburgh?
And what if we ask, where are the women?
Edinburgh's Lamentable Monuments
History is written by the winners and not only on the pages of books, it’s in our streets, our mountains and in the monuments we raise. The naming of these is important because it fires our sense of our self – culturally, socially and politically. Scotland’s past is mixed. We were a country of colonialists, a country where many people profited from the Transatlantic slave trade. A country where a world-renowned philosopher – a hero of the Enlightenment – wrote that black people were inferior to white.
What if we re-imagine our country, what if we re-imagine Edinburgh?
And what if we ask, where are the women?
