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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
St Bernard’s Well and the Water of Leith from the Stock Bridge to the Dean Bridge
Patricia R. Andrew
Edinburgh Goldsmiths and Radical Politics, 1793-94: The Case of David Downie
William Irvine Fortescue
The Rise and Fall of Tam Smith: An Edinburgh Politician’s Brief Encounter with the Dundas Interest
Steven Holt
The Experimental Garden of the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society
David Affleck
The Row Over the ‘Screen Wall’ of General Register House in 1849
J. E. Cookson
Babberton, Redhall and Dalry: Ambition, Indiscretion and Misfortune in Old Edinburgh
J. John Brand and Muriel P. Brand
Thomas Wright’s Edinburgh Almanac, 1733
Judy Preston
The Dickson Nurserymen Unravelled
Hamish Johnston
The City of Edinburgh: Landscape and Building Stone
Andrew A. McMillan
The Edinburgh Graveyard Project: A Social Solution and Methodology for Rebuilding Gravestones