Volume 1, 1991
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Ceremonial in Edinburgh: The Heralds and the Jacobite Risings
Sir Malcolm Innes of Edingight
Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Edinburgh Seedsmen and Nurserymen
Priscilla Minay
Two Robert Adam Buildings illustrated on Edinburgh Trade Tokens
G. R. Dalgleish
The Edinburgh Villa
Ian Gow
An Edinburgh Intrigue: Brewster’s Society of Arts and the Pantograph Dispute
A. D. C. Simpson
Edinburgh Portraits
Sir William Forbes, 1739-1806, Banker and Philanthropist
Sheila Devlin-Thorp
Reekiana
An Edinburgh Lawyer and his Bees
Una A. Robertson
Causey Clash of Kirk, Town and College, 1747-48
Iain Gordon Brown
OEC Constitution and Annual Reports 1985-1990
Volume 2, 1992
New Light on the First New Town
Stuart Harris
‘The Connoisseurs’ Identified?
Zella Ashford
Robert Adam’s Drawings: Edinburgh’s Loss, London’s Gain
Iain Gordon Brown
John Gulland’s Diary, 1846-1849: A Transcript and Commentary
John B. Barclay
Edinburgh Portraits
Samuel McClellan, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, 1706-1708
Richard Torrance
William Nicol, FRSE, c.1771-1851, Lecturer, Scientist and Collector
A. D. Morrison-Low
Reekiana
The School of the Royal College of Holyrood House
The Very Reverend Ronald Selby Wright
A Scottish Rococo Bookplate and its Peers
Ian Gow
Volume 3, 1994
The Lands of Warriston
Zella Ashford
Fire and Filth: Edinburgh’s Environment, 1660-1760
Rab Houston
The Development of Edinburgh’s Second New Town
Connie Byrom
The West Port Murders and the Miniature Coffins from Arthur’s Seat
Samuel Pyeatt Menefee and Allen D. C. Simpson
Changing Edinburgh
Ian Campbell
The Holy Corner
Yvonne Hillyard
Edinburgh Portraits
William Smellie, 1740-1795
Stephen Brown
Reekiana
The Wrichtishousis: ‘A Very Curious Edifice’
Charles McKean
John Kay’s Satires on Sir Lawrence Dundas
Iain Gordon Brown
James Hamilton’s ‘Lying-In’ Hospital at Park House
A. D. C. Simpson
OEC Constitution and Annual Reports 1992 and 1993
Volume 4, 1997
Historical Notes on Chessels Court
R. Ian McCallum
The Turnpike Road to Cramond and Queensferry
Barclay S. Fraser
A Genteel Academy: The Edinburgh Drawing Institution, 1825-1836
Helen Smailes
D. T. K. Drummond and the Foundation of St Thomas’s Church
David Ford
Public and Privileged Access: A Historical Survey of Admission Charges and Visitor Figures for Part of the Scottish National Collections
Geoffrey N. Swinney and David Heppell
Edinburgh Portraiti
Greyfriars’ Bobby: Dog or Myth?
Sara Stevenson
Reekiana
The Palace at Edinburgh Castle
Charles McKean
The Canonmills Gunpowder Manufactory and a newly discovered Plan by John Adair
Peter G. Vasey
James Hutton’s House at St John’s Hill, Edinburgh
Norman E. Butcher
Surpassing Expectations: An East Anglian Visitor’s Report of 1790
Iain Gordon Brown
The First and Second Halls of the Royal Medical Society
M. H. Kaufman
An Accidental Crime
N. J. Mills
Shinty in Nineteenth-Century Edinburgh and a Painting of Duddingston Loch by Charles Altamont Doyle
John Burnett
The Conversazione at the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art, 1875
John Burnett
Volume 5, 2002
William Cheape of the Canongate, an Eighteenth Century Linen Manufacturer
Vanessa Habib
The Museums of the Edinburgh Phrenological Society
M. H. Kaufman and S. Blomfield
A Century of Change in George Square, 1876-1976
Clive Fenton
Edinburgh Portrait
Hugh William Williams (‘Grecian’ Williams) 1773-1829
Joe Rock
Reekiana
Adam Square: An Edinburgh Architectural First
Ian R. M. Mowat
James Craig, 1739-1795: Correction of his Date of Birth
Kitty Cruft
An Undocumented Plan for Edinburgh’s First New Town by James Craig
Volker M. Welter
Additions to the Descriptive List of Works and Projects by James Craig
Anthony Lewis
Index to Book of the Old Edinburgh Club, New Series, Volumes 1-5
OEC Annual Reports for 1997, 1998 and 2000
Volume 6, 2005
Defending the Burgh: Continuity and Change in Early Modern Edinburgh’s Defence Infrastructure
Aaron M. Allen
Richard Cooper Senior (c.1696-1764) and his Properties in Edinburgh
Joe Rock
From James Mansfield to Ramsays, Bonars & Company: Some Notes on the Story of a Private Bank
Zella Ashford
Location Veterinary Education in Edinburgh in the Nineteenth Century
Alastair A. Macdonald, Colin M. Warwick and W. T. Johnston
Edinburgh Portrait
William Trotter, Cabinet Maker, Entrepreneur and Lord Provost, 1772-1833
Stephen Jackson
Reekiana
‘Our Small World of Fashion’; or the Dark Side of the Ball
Iain Gordon Brown
A Rare Survival — The Whin Club Box
Jill Turnbull
OEC Annual Reports for 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2005
Volume 7, 2008
Rosebery and the Birth of the Old Edinburgh Club
Owen Dudley Edwards
Burgage Plots and the Foundation of the Burgh of Edinburgh
Robin Tait
The Prisons of War in Edinburgh Castle
Chris Tabraham
Thomas and John Donaldson and the Edinburgh Medical Class Cards
A.D.C. Simpson
An Account of the Duddingston Curling Society, 1795-1854
David B. Smith
Robert Forrest (1789-1852) and his Exhibition on the Calton Hill
Joe Rock
The Edinburgh School of Cookery
Una A. Robertson
Edinburgh Portraits
Gregor Drummond, 1744-1813, Flesher
Graham Palmer
Daniel Wilson, 1816-1892
Kitty Cruft
Reekiana
James Craig’s Original Design for the Observatory on Calton Hill, May 1776
D.J. Bryden
The Burns-Scott Meeting at Sciennes Hill House
David Purdie
Daniel Macintosh and the Repository of Arts
Iain Gordon Brown
OEC Annual Reports for 2006 and 2007
Volume 8, 2010
The OEC Centenary Conference: President’s Remarks
Iain Gordon Brown
In Search of Twentieth-Century Edinburgh
R. J. Morris
Lawyer’s Edinburgh 1908-2008
Hector L. McQueen
Twentieth-Century Science in Edinburgh: A Brief Personal Selection
Aubrey Manning
The Lecture as Edinburgh’s Snare of the Sun
Owen Dudley Edwards
Religious Identity in a Century of Secularisation: The Edinburgh Churches Since 1900
Stewart J. Brown
Rambling Round the Walls One Hundred Years On
Graeme Cruickshank
A Centenary Re-creation of an OEC Council Ritual
Graeme Cruickshank
Appendix
Constitution of the Old Edinburgh Club
Annual Reports of the Old Edinburgh Club 2007-08 and 2008-09
Volume 9, 2012
St Bernard’s Well and the Water of Leith from the Stock Bridge to the Dean Bridge
Patricia R. Andrew
Edinburgh Goldsmiths and Radical Politics, 1793-94: The Case of David Downie
William Irvine Fortescue
The Rise and Fall of Tam Smith: An Edinburgh Politician’s Brief Encounter with the Dundas Interest
Steven Holt
The Experimental Garden of the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society: ‘Our Favourite Object’
David Affleck
The Row Over the ‘Screen Wall’ of General Register House in 1849
J. E. Cookson
Babberton, Redhall and Dalry: Ambition, Indiscretion and Misfortune in Old Edinburgh
J. John Brand and Muriel P. Brand
Thomas Wright’s Edinburgh Almanac, 1733
Judy Preston
The Dickson Nurserymen Unravelled
Hamish Johnston
The City of Edinburgh: Landscape and Building Stone
Andrew A. McMillan
The Edinburgh Graveyard Project: A Social Solution and Methodology for Rebuilding Gravestones
Alan McKinney and Andrew McMillan
Book Reviews
Appendix
Constitution of the Old Edinburgh Club
Annual Report of the Old Edinburgh Club, 2009-10 and 2010-11
Volume 10, 2014
‘A Venerable and Romantic Ruin’: St Anthony’s Chapel and its place in Edinburgh’s Historical and Visual Image
Patricia R. Andrew
James Ker, Member of Parliament for Edinburgh, 1747–1754
William Irvine Fortescue
The Musick Club and the Edinburgh Musical Society
Roger L. Emerson and Jenny Macleod
with the Editorial Assistance of Allen Simpson
Ramsay Garden : ‘Professor Geddes’s New Buildings’
R. J. Morris
The Public Washhouses of Edinburgh
Steven Robb
Edinburgh Portrait
Sir John Marjoribanks, Bart, MP (1763–1833)
Roger Marjoribanks
Reekiana
‘Spectator of the Busy Scene’ : A Visitor of 1793 Experiences Edinburgh Outside and In
Iain Gordon Brown
Book Review
Appendix
Annual Reports of the Old Edinburgh Club, 2011–12 and 2012–13
Volume 11, 2015
The Monument To John Bayne Of Pitcarlie — A Neo Classical Puzzle
Joe Rock
Archibald Mcdowall (1743-1816): “A Public Spirited Man”
Alison Macdonald
Epidemic Disease In Edinburgh, 1840-1850
Neil Macgillivray
The Formation Of The Old Edinburgh Club And Its First 300 Members
Alan McKinney and Bob Morris
A Morningside Brethren Meeting. The Old School House
Alastair J Durie
“Quite Unique In His Own Cemetery”: Sir James Caw’s Gravestone
Denis Smith
Book Reviews
Volume 12, 2016
The Decorated Room at Moray House, c.1706-1710
Joe Rock
Black Slaves, Apprentices or Servants in Eighteenth-Century Scotland: Evidence from Edinburgh Newspapers
William Irvine Fortescue
Nineteenth Century Nimbys: Henry Raeburn versus the Stockbridge Steam Engine
Karen Baston
The War of Words — The Rise and Fall of the Beacon Newspaper
John Chalmers
‘The Scotch Diable Boiteaux’ or the Lame Scottish Devil: Masonic Rebellion and the Rise of the Whigs
Mark C Wallace
Four Statues and a Landslip: Allan Ramsay, John Wilson, Thomas Guthrie and Charity
Patricia R Andrew
The March Stones Around Edinburgh Castle
John M Barton
The Treasury and the Edinburgh Royal Botanic Garden, 1846–1914
Ian Levitt
Book Reviews
Volume 13, 2017
Advocate’s Close and Adam Bothwell’s House
Robin Tait
Ebenezer Oliphant, 1713–98: Edinburgh Goldsmith and Life-Long Jacobite
William Irvine Forsecue
Oddfellows Hall. 14 Forrest Road, Edinburgh
Alan McKinney
Ebenezer Macrae and Interwar Housing in Edinburgh
Steven Robb
In defence of Parochialism: Municipal Politics in 20th century Edinburgh
David McCrone
The Treasury and Edinburgh’s Museum of Science and Art, 1844–89
Ian Levitt
St Roch’s Chapel and Plague on the Burgh Muir of Edinburgh with
Which Chapel of St Roch did James IV visit in 1507?
Douglas Baugh
A View of Abercrombie Place by Alexander Nasmyth and its Relationship to Wider Edinburgh Topography
Patricia Andrew and Iain Gordon Brown
The Edinburgh Graveyard Project
Alan McKinney
Book Reviews
Volume 14, 2018
The Design and Building of Newhailes House
Joe Rock
Food for Thought: Coffee, Coffee-houses and le bon Goût in Edinburgh during the Scottish Enlightenment
Janet Starkey
Edinburgh’s First Chinese Gentleman
Barclay Price
James Syme — Humanity and the Garden
Sara Stevenson
The Treasury and the National Galleries of Scotland, 1844 – 1910
Ian Levitt
Collective Action to Meet Social Needs: Edinburgh Voluntary Organisations Council
Alan Rees
Book Reviews
Volume 15, 2019
Edinburgh As Athens: New Evidence to Support a Topographical and Intellectual Idea Current in the Early Nineteenth Century
Iain Gordon Brown
Princes Street, Edinburgh: A Street of Encounter
Clarisse Godard Desmarest
Queen Victoria, Edinburgh, and a Sense of Place
Richard Rodger
‘Give Authority’, The Treasury and the Renovation of Holyrood, 1837-1909
Ian Levitt
Edinburgh Suffragists: Exercising the Franchise at Local Level
Esther Breitenbach
Kirkgate Comprehensive Development Area
Michael Gall
Henrietta Wilson: The Chronicles of a Garden: Its Pets and its Pleasures
Sara Stevenson
Cachepell and Tennis in Edinburgh in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Thomas Brochard
‘Contributions at St Petersburg’: Patriotic Support for Public Monuments in Edinburgh in the Early Nineteenth Century
Patricia R Andrew
Book Reviews
Volume 16, 2020
Andrew G. Fraser – An Appreciation
Circumnavigating the Globe: RW Forsyth’s, Princes Street, and its Meanings
Roger Emmerson
‘An Edinburgh Citizen of Very Ancient Standing’: Prime Minister Lord Rosebery, Architectural Patron and Conservationist
Clarisse Godard Desmarest and Aonghus MacKechnie
The Edinburgh Academy of St Luke at Work, c.1737–47
Joe Rock
‘Men Who Loved Their Fellow Mortals’: Blood Donor Recruitment, Identity and Motivation in Edinburgh, 1930–1939
Charlotte Bowers
Building ‘The Palace of Bokes’: Robert Reid, William Stark and the Signet Library
James Hamilton
A Halberdier at the Piazza: John Myles and the City Officer
Patricia R. Andrew and Iain Gordon Brown
Projects
Finding Edinburgh’s Pasts: Introducing the OEC Bibliography of Edinburgh History
Malcolm Noble
The Edinburgh Graveyard Project: Rebuilding Monuments
Alan McKinney
Book Reviews
Volume 17, 2021
Published March 2022
John Borthwick Gilchrist: An Edinburgh Lad o’ Pairts Let Loose in India and London
Antonia Simpson and Roger Jeffery
Jews in Edinburgh and Their Marriages 1841-1911
Gillian M. Raab
Early History of Morningside
Douglas Baugh
H.M. Treasury and the University of Edinburgh, 1840-1900
Ian Levitt
Philanthropist, Female, Forgotten: Catherine Sinclair
Diana Leat
Reconsidering an Edinburgh Institution: The British Linen Company and Its Slavery Connection
Maximilian Knight
Around the Botanics in 350 Years: An Exploration of the Evolution of Edinburgh’s World Leading Botanic Garden
Simon Milne
The City from Afar: John Thomson’s Edinburgh from Hillside. A Tale of Collectors and Collections
Patricia R. Andrew
Book Reviews
Volume 18, 2022
Professor R. J. Morris – An Appreciation
Identity, Imagination and George IV in Edinburgh, 1822
Robert Pirrie
Inventing Scotch Baronial Edinburgh: The Role of Walter Scott
Aonghus MacKechnie
Edinburgh and Slavery
Jennifer Melville
Elevating the Poor: The Origin, Activities and Evolution of the Edinburgh Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor c.1868–1906
Joan Fraser
Servant Keeping and Residential Neighbourhood Composition: Presbyterian Ministers in Late Nineteenth-Century Edinburgh
John W. Sawkins and Andrew J. Sawkins
The Role of Glass in Chemistry, Especially in Edinburgh
Jill Turnbull
Toun’s College or College’s Toun? A Study into the Social Effects of the Edinburgh University Comprehensive Development Area
Michael Gall
Book Reviews
Annual Report
Volume 19, 2023
Networked Edinburgh 1800–1820: James Bremner and the Stamp Office Story
Penelope Wilson
Major James Weir of Tollcross and Drumsheugh (1757–1820): Royal Marine, Topographical Artist and Edinburgh Feuar
Jane Croom
James Nicolson, A Leith Jacobite Martyr
Steven Robb
The Treasury, Edinburgh, and the Royal Mile, 1824–1911
Ian Levitt
The Burgh Church Seat Rents: A Source of Municipal Revenue in Nineteenth-Century Edinburgh
John W. Sawkins
THE JEAN BUTCHART BURSARY
The Old Edinburgh Club – Edinburgh Central Library Manuscript Cataloguing Project
Matthew Ferrie
Book reviews
Annual Report and AGM