
Campaigning for Edinburgh
A fascinating glimpse into the changing face of Edinburgh
2025 marks the Association’s 150th anniversary. To mark this, we have published a book, Campaigning for Edinburgh: The Cockburn Association 1875-2049, chronicling the Association’s history of active stewardship of the city, and looking forward imagining what the city might look like in 2049.
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Edinburgh’s green spaces are living heritage, vital for biodiversity, climate resilience and community wellbeing.
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The Cockburn Council of Trustees are delighted to welcome Rowan Brown as our Director.

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However large or small, all donations are gratefully received.
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Positive reuse, though heritage interpretation absent.
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Professor Aonghus MacKechnie will take us on a tour of Scotland
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Edinburgh is renowned for its dramatic stone architecture
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‘the first architectural critic in the modern sense of the word’.
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The histories, legacies, and repatriation of Edinburgh’s African skull collections