Gallery to hold talk on heroes

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From: Evening News - Scotland
Date: 20080707
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A TALK on Scottish essayist and historian Thomas Carlyle's views on heroes by Ian Campbell, a professor at Edinburgh University, is to be given at the National Gallery of Scotland.

It has been arranged as part of the exhibit Heroes - 19th- Century Self-Help Role Models, currently on show at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

The free talk is held tomorrow in the Hawthornden Lecture Theatre, in the National Gallery Complex, at 12.45pm

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