The latest issue of The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club, The Journal for Edinburgh History, Volume 21, is now in print. Once again we present a wide-ranging selection of original contributions on diverse facets of Edinburgh’s history.

John Elphinstone’s ‘Twelve Miserable Views Of Edinburgh’, visual records of the capital after the Jacobite rising, by John Moore

A Bridge Too Far: The Colinton Bridge, on the campaign against replacing Colinton Bridge, by Steven Robb

Edinburgh’s Café Royal, tracing changing patterns of hospitality, dining and urban sociability in central Edinburgh, by Barclay Price

Profile of the Leaders of Wesleyan Methodism in 1911 by John W. Sawkins

Port Hopetoun in Art, reviewing representations of Port Hopetoun and the memorialisation of the Union Canal terminus in Edinburgh’s urban landscape by Graeme Cruickshank (research supported by one of the Club’s Jean Guild Grants)

'Satan's Invisible World Discovered': George Sinclair, on Sinclair’s Edinburgh connections and his use of empirical reasoning to defend belief in spirits and demons in 17th century Scotland, by Ellie Whitehead, the OEC Prize winner at the University of Edinburgh in 2024)

For further information contact the Editor, Wilson Smith at editor@oldedinburghclub.org.uk