From its 17th-century origins, the National Library of Scotland, one of the great research libraries of the world in every field, has developed an extraordinary collection of printed and manuscript material relating to Scotland and to the Scots.

This celebration of the Library's Scottish collections, provides a brief history of the institution and the development of its holdings, and focuses on a selection of the most interesting, exciting and unusual items, often going beyond the conventional 'treasures', describing and illustrating each one.
Dr Iain Gordon Brown, FRSE FSA, Principal Curator in the Manuscripts Division of the National Library of Scotland, is a widely published author and a respected scholar.

Scala Publishers, £16.95 paperback, 144 pages, 274 x 196mm, ISBN: 978 1 85759 638 0

Looking for an unusual present for someone?  Why not make a gift with a difference: volumes of our occasional publication, Book of the Old Edinburgh Club!  Details of all the publications can be found on the Publications page.  Edinburgh residents, to whom we can make a personal delivery of the volumes, can buy a copy of all the 6 currently-available volumes for the special price of £32!  Details of how to purchase the volumes are on the Publications page.   

We are sad to announce the death of our friend, Old Edinburgh Club council member and ardent 'Edinburgher', Cecilia Christina Cavaye on 19th July 2009.
As many Edinburgh citizens will know she was the proud daughter of the late Stanley and Beatrice Cavaye. Cecilia was a musician and teacher, late of George Watson's College. The funeral service will be held at Old St Paul's Episcopal Church, Jeffrey Street, Edinburgh on Tuesday 28th July 2009 at 11.30am followed by a burial at Liberton Cemetery, to which all friends are invited. There will be a retiral collection in aid of St Columba's Hospice.

Edinburgh City Council held a Civic Reception to mark the Club's centenary on Tuesday 2 December at the City Chambers. The photograph shows the Club President Dr Iain G. Brown FSA FRSE with The Rt Hon George Grubb, Lord Lieutenant and Lord Provost of the City of Edinburgh.   

On the last day of 2008, a bronze plaque commissioned by the Club was unveiled to mark the site of the Flodden Wall at Bristo. The meeting place was the lane at the rear of the Scottish Museum and after a speech by our worthy president, Dr Ian G. Brown, members of the council were led over Forrest Road by a young piper where the unveiling ceremony took place.

The plaque, which also celebrates the Old Edinburgh Club's centenary, was the conception of council member Graeme Cruickshank and was manufactured by iron and bronze founders Charles Laing & Son, an Edinburgh family business.