Secret Aberdeen

By (author) Lorna Dey

Aberdeen is not a brash city, preferring to wear its many distinctions lightly. Which of its institutions produced 3 Nobel laureates and who became the first Director General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)? Which prominent Aberdeen doctor was involved in setting up the NHS in Britain? What has the popularity of coffee to do with Aberdeen’s engineering past? Where in Nepal and the Falkland Islands would you find a not-so-little piece of Aberdeen? What had Winston Churchill said that led to him being attacked in Aberdeen in 1912? Did you know Copenhagen stands on northeast granite? Aberdeen is the oil and gas capital of Europe but once lights glimmered on whale blubber before offshore gas came to town. When were town councillors accused on trying to plunder the Mither Kirk? Where might Robert Burns and Dr Johnson have slept in the same bed? Let’s draw back the veil on Secret Aberdeen.