The Annual Crawford Lecture

Between 2010 and 2014 a collaboration between the ROE and historians of Science at the University of Edinburgh led to a series of public events centred around a lecture on the history of astronomy by a distinguished visitor. This was part of an ongoing enterprise known as the Crawford Project to make the Crawford Collection better known, and develop both its academic potential and its public recognition.

The ROE Trust aims to raise a small endowment (~£20K) which will fund the annual expenses of this event from interest, and so continue the collaboration between the Observatory and academic historians  

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