Leslie Hills
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About the speaker:
Leslie Hills is a film producer at Skyline Productions. She has written extensively on education and the arts and has published short stories. 10 Scotland Street, the story of an Edinburgh home and its cast of booksellers, silk merchants, sailors, preachers, politicians, cholera and coincidence and its widespread connections over two centuries across the globe to the Caribbean, Irkutsk, Calcutta, Sydney... is her first book. Full biog at www.skyline.uk.com
Base location:
Edinburgh
Speaking locations:
Scotland
Dates available :
on request
Talks:
Title of talk:
10 Scotland Street
Description of talk:
The history of an Edinbugh home and its varied inhabitants over 200 years - human stories which take us all over the world into the history of exploration, trade, enslavement and the domestic sphere - all through the prism of the people and the society based in and around one Edinburgh home.