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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
The Decorated Room at Moray House, c.1706-1710
Joe Rock
Black Slaves, Apprentices or Servants in Eighteenth-Century Scotland: Evidence from Edinburgh Newspapers
William Irvine Fortescue
Nineteenth Century Nimbys: Henry Raeburn versus the Stockbridge Steam Engine
Karen Baston
The War of Words — The Rise and Fall of the Beacon Newspaper
John Chalmers
‘The Scotch Diable Boiteaux’ or the Lame Scottish Devil: Masonic Rebellion and the Rise of the Whigs
Mark C Wallace
Four Statues and a Landslip: Allan Ramsay, John Wilson, Thomas Guthrie and Charity
Patricia R Andrew
The March Stones Around Edinburgh Castle
John M Barton
The Treasury and the Edinburgh Royal Botanic Garden, 1846–1914