Hands that Toil
Date & time
8 November 2025 | 10.00-16.00
Event format
Attend event in person
Event type
Exhibition
Event topic
Environment, Health and wellbeing, Our working lives
Audience
All
Academic discipline
Economic and social history, Social anthropology
Venue
ECCI (Edinburgh Climate Change Institute), High School Yards, Infirmary Street, Edinburgh EH1 1LZ
What's on offer?
How and by whom is our food produced and consumed? What experiences do the workers in our food system have? "Hands that Toil" is a curated collection of resources from Scotland’s food workers. We invite you to grab a cuppa, sit down, read, and learn from the wide range of food work and worker experiences in Scotland.
What's it about?
Discover an exhibition with insights from Scotlands' food workers.
Who's leading the event?
Tilly Robinson-Miles, Research Fellow at the Living Good Food Nation Lab, and Beth Cloughton, Research Fellow in Food Systems Transformation
Open to
Adults, professionals, public
Of particular interest to
all people in Scotland as this collection addresses our food system and who works the land to produce the food we eat
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