The University of Edinburgh has renamed its David Hume Tower over the philosopher’s “comments on matters of race”. The building, which will be used as a student study space in the current ...

The University of Edinburgh’s decision to banish David Hume’s name from a campus building is an example ... in the US are reporting that the Hume tower is being renamed after George Floyd ...

Sir Geoff said: “We will look at David Hume Tower and other buildings. The university has links to buildings all over Edinburgh and we will be looking at these and the individuals linked to them.

Edinburgh University's Appleton Tower has been ... Proposals to give the Appleton Tower listed building status were dropped around the same time due to the level of opposition.

But redeveloping the main, listed surgical building has proved more challenging thanks to viability issues. Proposals to convert it into flats and then a hotel came to nothing, leaving the building ...

For decades after its construction in the 1960s, the only controversy about the naming of the University of Edinburgh’s David Hume Tower was whether Britain ... owing to far more serious controversy, ...

A petition calling for Edinburgh University to drop the name of renowned Enlightenment philosopher David Hume from one its most prominent buildings due to his racist beliefs has attracted more ...

Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (FCBS) has won a high-profile competition to regenerate the University of Edinburgh’s 10-storey ... and re-clads a 1960s science tower on the prestigious university’s ...

The University of Edinburgh has renamed its David Hume Tower over the philosopher’s “comments on matters of race”. The building, which will be used as a student study space in the current ...

The University of Edinburgh has renamed its David Hume Tower in response to the Scottish ... his links to the slave trade and called for the building to be renamed as Julius Nyerere, the first ...

Edinburgh University has renamed its David Hume Tower over the philosopher's "comments on matters of race". The building, which will be used as a student study space this academic year ...