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By: Frank Donald
… through old maps in the National Library of Scotland and Edinburgh Central Library Editor’s note: We recently received this article about the course of
By: Amy Orner
News in the Caledonian Mercury On 28 October 1767, the Caledonian Mercury reported that James Craig had laid the foundation stone for the first house
By: Barclay Price
Isabella Hutchison (neé Cunninghame) was an Edinburgh philanthropist who became Catholic, funding the establishment of St Margaret’s Convent and supporting the work of the Sisters
By: Derrick Johnstone
The voyage of the Henry and Francis from Leith, September 1685 In early September 1685, a ship weighed anchor in the Forth and headed out
By: Steven Robb
On a sweltering summer day, exactly two hundred years ago, the foundation stone for Edinburgh’s new Royal High School was laid on a fresh site
By: Janette Walkinshaw
A remarkable woman Writing in 1825, Robert Chambers described May Drummond as ‘one of the most remarkable women that Scotland ever produced’. [1] Many praised
By: Derrick Johnstone
Pierrots were troupes who entertained residents, day-trippers and holidaymakers in Portobello and other seaside resorts between the 1890s and 1930s. They offered a hugely popular
By: John N Amoore
Two legends in the Coats of Arms of the Canongate and Edinburgh Unexpected consequences when kings hunt is the theme of two legends represented in
By: Derrick Johnstone
A post to mark the 160th anniversary of the end of the Civil War, 26 May 1865 Commemorating Scottish veterans and Abraham Lincoln The Lincoln