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The Lending Library by Isaac Cruikshank (between 1800 and 1811)

Access the new Books and Borrowing Database The Books and Borrowing Database containing borrowing records covering eighteen different Scottish libraries active in the period between

Great Debate finalists 2024

By: Jo Chapman

National debate for schools The Historical Association recently announced the winner of the Great Debate 2024 Emma Crow from Broxburn Academy Broxburn West Lothian The

Trinity Collegiate Church from Lower Calton by Henry Duguid 1848

By: Jill Harrison, Jean Guild Grant awardee

Last week Jill Harrison was out and about in Edinburgh looking for more pieces of her Trinity Stones jigsaw puzzle and gives us her

The latest issue of the Book of the Old Edinburgh Club The latest edition of 8216 The Book 8217 the Book of the Old Edinburgh

St Giles & Parliament Square

By: Dr Robert Sproul-Cran, Jean Guild Grant awardee

Creating virtual photographs of Edinburgh in the 1700s Introducing 8216 Old Edinburgh Reborn 8217 Photography came to Edinburgh in the early 1840s and the city

Images of books and the OEC Bibliography

A rich resource of Edinburgh 8217 s past The Bibliography of Edinburgh History has been updated by the Old Edinburgh Club forming an extensive collection

National Portrait Gallery, London
Alison Macdonald

By: Alison Macdonald

12th February 2024 marks the 400th anniversary of the death of George Heriot His name is well known in Edinburgh for the extraordinary legacy he

Videos of talks given at the 2023 Edinburgh Lothians and Borders Archaeology Conference are now online This is always a popular event held at Queen

jean guild grant winners
Jo Chapman

By: Jo Chapman

We have announced the first successful applicants for the Jean Guild Grants programme which offers small awards for projects and research which expand what we