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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
Historical Notes on Chessels Court
R. Ian McCallum
The Turnpike Road to Cramond and Queensferry
Barclay S. Fraser
A Genteel Academy: The Edinburgh Drawing Institution, 1825-1836
Helen Smailes
D. T. K. Drummond and the Foundation of St Thomas’s Church
David Ford
Public and Privileged Access: A Historical Survey of Admission Charges and Visitor Figures for Part of the Scottish National Collections
Geoffrey N. Swinney and David Heppell
Greyfriars’ Bobby: Dog or Myth?
Sara Stevenson
The Palace at Edinburgh Castle
Charles McKean
The Canonmills Gunpowder Manufactory and a newly discovered Plan by John Adair
Peter G. Vasey
James Hutton’s House at St John’s Hill, Edinburgh
Norman E. Butcher
Surpassing Expectations: An East Anglian Visitor’s Report of 1790
Iain Gordon Brown
The First and Second Halls of the Royal Medical Society
M. H. Kaufman
An Accidental Crime
N. J. Mills
Shinty in Nineteenth-Century Edinburgh and a Painting of Duddingston Loch by Charles Altamont Doyle
John Burnett
The Conversazione at the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art, 1875