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Canongate Kirk

In profile

The statue remembers the young Edinburgh poet, Robert Fergusson (1750-1774). Despite such a short life his work had great impact on Robert Burns and other writers that followed.   Copyright […]

Textures of age

The Canongate Churchyard provides the resting place of several famous Edinburgers, including the economist Adam Smith and David Rizzio, the murdered private secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots. This latter […]