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Catch up with past OEC talks The OEC has released videos of lectures from our autumn and winter programme of 2024/25. These are publicly available
By: Alison Macdonald
Jill Harrison announces a new Exhibition and outreach programme Museum of Edinburgh, from Capital Collections, image by Claire Paget 2024. The Reviving the Trinity Stones
By: Elaine Howie & Alison Macdonald
Veteran Housing Scotland (VHS) has completed its research and published its history, ‘Veterans Housing Scotland – Celebrating 110 Years . This has been funded by
By: Kit Baston
Kit Baston tells us how her transcribing work is taking shape The transcription of Edinburgh University Library’s Receipt Book for the Book Borrowing Surgeons project
By: Jill Harrison
On a glorious sunny morning Jean Guild awardees, Jill Harrison (Trinity Stones) and Jill Powlett-Brown (Medieval Masons) accompanied by Alison Macdonald and Hetty Lancaster (Old
By: James Hamilton
Background For almost 150 years, John Watson’s Institution was both school and home to generations of children whose families through tragedy and misfortune were unable
Canongate Kirk & Kirkyard visit Eric Drake (volunteer guide and resident of Canongate) showed us round the graveyard and the kirk. Eric began the visit
By: Derrick Johnstone
New digital access to articles in the Book of the Old Edinburgh Club We have made it easier to find content in the Book of
Jean Guild Grants, Round 2 announcement The Old Edinburgh Club announced the latest Jean Guild Grants at the lecture by Roger Jeffery on 19 March.