The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club, The Journal for Edinburgh History
New Series, Volume 20 (2024)
vii, 130 pp., col illus, softbound
ISSN 2634-2618, ISBN 978-0-9933987-9-7

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

The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club. New Series, Volume 20, 2024

We provide this free to our members, and non-members can order a copy of this and previous issues for £25 (plus postage) from the Forum's website https://www.slhf.org/books (scroll down to find OEC publications).

Contents
· The hunt for a site for Register House as the repository for Scotland’s national records
· An analysis of borrowing and borrowers from a range of Edinburgh’s Georgian libraries
· The fate of the Sweet Singers, an extreme Covenanting sect in the Killing Times
· The depiction in paintings and photographs of South Asians in the city in the 1840s
Two articles result from research supported by the Old Edinburgh Club’s Jean Guild Grants programme:
· Evidence from the Old Edinburgh Reborn project creating digital representations of eighteenth-century Edinburgh
· An examination of the rise and fall of Port Hopetoun, eastern terminus of the Union Canal.

Finally we provide an update on the Bibliography of Edinburgh History, another of the Old Edinburgh Club’s key projects.

For abstracts please link to:
https://oldedinburghclub.org.uk/boec/boec-new-series-volume-20-2024/

‘With this wide variety of contents The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club, The Journal for Edinburgh History continues to be the authoritative source for the history of Edinburgh in all its aspects.’ Dr Wilson Smith, Editor.

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