Showcase: Banned Books

Wed Feb 25 2026 at 12:30 pm to 01:30 pm UTC+00:00

Physicians' Gallery, Queen Street, Edinburgh, UK | Edinburgh

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 Showcase: Banned Books
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Join us to explore the banning and censoring of scientific books

 

Join us at the Physicians’ Gallery on the last Wednesday of every month at 12.30pm for a curator-led talk exploring some of the objects on display in our gallery.


Our topic for this talk is the banning and censoring of scientific books – especially during the 1500s Catholic Inquisition showing the impact of censorship on the advancement of medicine and other sciences.

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