Issue 18 features: * Housekeeping through history: Margaret Powling shows how housekeeping books can illuminate social history * Celebration of place: A new one-place studies conference * Wounded in WW1: Explore 1.3m casualty records online * Sea changes: Karen Foy on the many ways we can learn about our migrant ancestors * A walk in the park: The development of public parks * The slippery poll: 18th and 19th century poll books revealed * History in the details: Cloaks and mantles * Places in Focus: Norwich More Info
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"The Tolbooth was the focal point of the Scottish burgh from medieval times until the 19th century. Incorporating the office where taxes were paid, the centre of local administration and also the prison where debtors were jailed, it was the most important single building in the community. As such it was the focus of much civic pride and community identity"--Back cover. 72 pages
Dalkeith emerged from the second world war as a town undergoing enormous changes. The Woodburn housing estate was being built to the south.
Railway services in Edinburgh began in earnest in 1846 and for 12 year thereafter the Scottish capital enjoyed major national rail links.
Richard Wiseman took extensive photographs of Edinburgh's tramways between 1952 and 1955, shortly before the network's closure on 16th November 1956