The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club. New Series, Volume 16, 2020

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Author: 
Various
Published: 
2020
ISBN: 
978-0-9933987-5-9
Format: 
Paperback, colour illustrations
Pages: 
116
Publisher: 

Old Edinburgh Club


https://oldedinburghclub.org.uk(link is external)

About this item

The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club is the foremost journal for all aspects of Edinburgh history.
The Original Series goes back to 1908 and the foundation of the Old Edinburgh Club.
The New Series was begun in 1991.

Contents

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
Finding Edinburgh’s Pasts: Introducing the OEC Bibliography of Edinburgh History
Malcolm Noble
The Edinburgh Graveyard Project: Rebuilding Monuments
Alan McKinney