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THE PEOPLE'S STORY MUSEUM

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163, Canongate, Edinburgh , United Kingdom
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2024
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2024

As its name suggests, the People's Story Museum tells the story of the people of Edinburgh from the 18th century to the present day. It shows the evolution of work, living conditions, but also morals and ideas. Mannequins, objects and descriptions relate the everyday life of the people and their city. Trade, day-to-day subsistence, war, the homosexual community, the alcohol and printing industry, trade unions, fishing, the navy, mining, transport, domesticity: everything is depicted, right up to the punk movements of the 1990s. The exhibition takes place on 3 levels, in a superb historical building from 1591, which was the headquarters of the independent municipality of Canongate. You can also discover the atmosphere of "The Canongate Toolbooth": a prison with the reputation of being one of the worst that the 18th century had known. Amongst the points covered by this museum, the Little Face was fascinated by the links between the riots of the 1780s and 1790s in Edinburgh and their influence on the French Revolution. Born out of opposition to the Catholic Church and anger over rising food prices, they were suppressed in blood and most likely gave impetus to the movement that took place in France. Moreover, as a witness to this link, a replica of a key to the Bastille is on display here. There is also a focus on the birth of the "unions" in the 1800s and the socialist movements.

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