Robert's Edinburgh
Old and new side-by-side
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The University and the City of Edinburgh went through major phases of modernisation while Robert was a student. The University’s plan for a new ‘Arts Faculty’ centred on George Square, with the new University Library as its centrepiece, was put into action in the early 1960s.
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