The University of
Edinburgh School
of History, Classics and Archaeology
changed location in 2010.
The School, which was spread across five
main locations, united under one roof in
the West
Wing of the Old Medical Building at
Teviot Place on 1st November 2010.
The School and Subject Areas moved
in two phases. The Graduate School and School
Office moved in August 2010 and by 1st November
Subject Areas and staff including teaching
and course support staff joined the new
residents.
The School, combining as it does the disciplines
of History, Classics and Archaeology, with
an academic and support staff of over 120,
is one of the largest and most distinguished
centres for the study of the human past
in Europe.
The West Wing is
part of a Grade A, listed building which
forms part of a large Venetian Cinquecento
complex designed by Robert Rowand Anderson
in 1874. These historic premises were sympathetically
renovated and brought up to 21st Century
standards and provide the School with a
truly beautiful working environment, much
more befitting the nature of the discipline
we teach. The building will initially continue
to be known as the West Wing or Doorway
4, Teviot Place, to avoid confusion with
the current William Robertson Building,
but the latter name "William Robertson
Wing" will be transferred to us at
a later date.
The buildings are designed around two courtyards
with a tower at the West end, and at the
East end the base of an uncompleted San-Marco-type
campanile. More about
the history of the building.....
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