Issue 123

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Spring 2026

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Photographic recreation of Parliament Square, for the 'Old Edinburgh Reborn' project.

A virtual 3D computer model was created using all available contemporary plans and images. For maximum accuracy, surviving pieces of masonry were tracked down and scanned, then the scans put in place. A sky background and light source was added, then a virtual camera was positioned and a virtual photograph taken.

CC BY-NC-ND Robert Spreull-Cran

See Note 1 Promoting research and bringing history to life

Contents

'Highly sublime and somewhat horrible': The rise and decline of a Scottish countryside tourist resort
Phil Back
The Bazaar Age in Scotland - Part 10 Shetland Bazaars, 1867-1914
Douglas G Lockhart
The Men of Millport who took part in the first scientific visit to St Kilda in 1797
John Parnell
Old Wall Letter Boxes Still in Service in North Fife
Lyndesay M Brown and Allan W Brown
The 1919 Charabanc Crash at Hawick Common Riding: the growth of motor traffic and the police
David M Smale
Note 1: Promoting research and bringing history to life
Derrick Johnstone, Secretary of the Old Edinburgh Club, describes the Club's Jean Guild Grants
Note 2: Professor James Gregory FRS
Andrew King describes a mathematician and astronomer who is perhaps a forgotten Scottish genius
Note 3: Dunfermline's Jewish Community
Robert Leiser and Harvey Kaplan review fluctuations in the Jewish population of the city
Note 4: Farmers, Family, and Fairies
Lachlan Munro introduces the local 'sketches' of RB Cunninghame Graham
Note 5: A' Tadhal air Dualchas Innse Gall - Visiting the Heritage of the Outer Hebrides
Louise Matthews describes Common Dualchas Innse Gall (The Outer Hebrides Heritage Forum)
News Feature: 'Popular Protest in a Scottish Local History Context' - SLHF Conference 2025
News Feature: Scottish Local History Forum AGM 2025
News Feature: Peter McLagan, Scotland's First Black MP
News Feature: 'Research in Action' for Scotland's Closing Churches
News Feature: Granton Lighthouse
News Feature: Powderhall Stables, Edinburgh
News Feature: Paul Carter (1943-2025)

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