The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club. New Series, Volume 4, 1997
Details
Published:
1997
ISBN:
0-9517284-3-1
Format:
Paperback, b/w illustrations
Pages:
166
Publisher:
Old Edinburgh Club
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
Historical Notes on Chessels Court
The Turnpike Road to Cramond and Queensferry
A Genteel Academy: The Edinburgh Drawing Institution, 1825-1836
D. T. K. Drummond and the Foundation of St Thomas’s Church
Public and Privileged Access: A Historical Survey of Admission Charges and Visitor Figures for Part of the Scottish National Collections
Greyfriars’ Bobby: Dog or Myth?
The Palace at Edinburgh Castle
The Canonmills Gunpowder Manufactory and a newly discovered Plan by John Adair
James Hutton’s House at St John’s Hill, Edinburgh
Surpassing Expectations: An East Anglian Visitor’s Report of 1790
The First and Second Halls of the Royal Medical Society
An Accidental Crime
Shinty in Nineteenth-Century Edinburgh and a Painting of Duddingston Loch by Charles Altamont Doyle
The Conversazione at the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art, 1875