Latest issue of the Book, Volume 20

The latest issue of The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club, The Journal for Edinburgh History has now appeared in print. Once again we present a wide-ranging selection of original contributions on diverse facets of Edinburgh’s history.

Articles include:

• The hunt for a site for Register House as the repository for Scotland’s national records;
• Borrowing and borrowers from a range of libraries in Georgian Edinburgh;
• The fate of the Sweet Singers, an extreme Covenanting sect in the Killing Times;
• Paintings and photographs of South Asians in the city in the 1840s.

Two other articles result from research supported by the Old Edinburgh Club’s Jean Guild Grants programme, on:

• The Old Edinburgh Reborn project, creating digital representations of eighteenth-century Edinburgh, and
• The rise and fall of Port Hopetoun, eastern terminus of the Union Canal.

Finally we provide an update on the Bibliography of Edinburgh History, another Old Edinburgh Club project which now contains nearly 3,000 items. 

Abstracts of the articles are provided here.

With this wide variety of contents, The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club continues to be the authoritative source for the history of Edinburgh in all its aspects.

For further information contact the Editor, Wilson Smith.

Copies are provided free to members. Non-members can order a copy for £25 (plus postage, £3 in the UK). Please contact us if you would like one.