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 fascinating story which begins with a visionary chemist from Glasgow, James Young, and his innovation and tenacity in developing and refining the process of extracting useable oil from the Lothian shale fields. Much has been written about mining and Scottish coal but relatively little about the shale oil industry which brought whole villages into existence and transformed an entire area west o...More Info
The Pentlands cover an area of approximately 75 square miles and are some of the best loved hills in Scotland. Admired by Sir Walter Scott and beloved of Robert Louis Stevenson they house many archaeological treasures among their peaks including iron-age hill forts and stone with cup and ring markings. The photographs in this volume from the nineteenth and early 20th century evoke a gentler age wh...More Info
50 pages of old photographs of Trams, buses, carts and Trucks in and around Edinburgh.