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Great Debate finalists 2024

By: Jo Chapman

National debate for schools The Historical Association recently announced the winner of the Great Debate 2024: Emma Crow from Broxburn Academy, Broxburn, West Lothian.  The Old Edinburgh Club was asked

Trinity Collegiate Church from Lower Calton by Henry Duguid 1848

By: Jill Harrison, Jean Guild Grant awardee

  Last week Jill Harrison was out and about in Edinburgh looking for more pieces of her Trinity Stones jigsaw puzzle and gives us her

The latest issue of the Book of the Old Edinburgh Club The latest edition of ‘The Book’, the Book of the Old Edinburgh Club, Volume

St Giles & Parliament Square

By: Dr Robert Sproul-Cran, Jean Guild Grant awardee

Creating virtual photographs of Edinburgh in the 1700s Introducing ‘Old Edinburgh Reborn’ Photography came to Edinburgh in the early 1840s and the city has been

Images of books and the OEC Bibliography

A rich resource of Edinburgh’s past The Bibliography of Edinburgh History has been updated by the Old Edinburgh Club, forming an extensive collection of nearly 3,000 items. These

National Portrait Gallery, London
Alison Macdonald

By: Alison Macdonald

12th February 2024 marks the 400th anniversary of the death of George Heriot. His name is well known in Edinburgh for the extraordinary legacy he

Videos of talks given at the 2023 Edinburgh, Lothians and Borders Archaeology Conference are now online. This is always a popular event, held at Queen

jean guild grant winners
Jo Chapman

By: Jo Chapman

We have announced the first successful applicants for the Jean Guild Grants programme, which offers small awards for projects and research which expand what we know

BOEC18 front cover

We are pleased to announce the completion of a project to digitise nearly 70 articles first published between 1991 and 2008. These authoritative articles appeared