City of Literature

There is a lot of independent bookshops, old streets, cosy cafes, beautiful architect, you know, history everywhere.

You've got connections to writers like Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Edinburgh is a UNESCO city of literature as well.

You could literally design an entire weekend around bookshop, coffee, bookshop, lunch, another bookshop, pub,

read.

So that's hugely important for us as a university.

But I would say more generally, and I know this is something close to your heart, that the work of our archivists, librarians, curators are you know, just critical to the cultural life of institutions like ours, to the life of our city, which of course, UNESCO's City of Literature, and to

our nation.

Indeed, and I know Tony's credited the archivists and the curators and researchers who've helped him produce this terrific book.

But yeah, we want a space where we can really celebrate it and to bring in our partners.

So we partner with UNESCO City of Literature.

We partner with the Literature Festival.

We partner with the Writing Squad and all these other amazing development writing opportunities.