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Old Edinburgh Club @oldedinburghclub.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The 1st of September is now here, and it's the start of our membership year. Check us out to see what the club has to offer. Join online, or renew your membership online too. #joinourclub #edinburghhistoryclub #walksandtalks #historyevents #historybooks #edinburghhistoryresurces buff.ly/FRKMlH7

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Old Edinburgh Club @oldedinburghclub.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Want to know the history of your home and who might have lived there? We've just published an extensive guide to help you with your research, with hints, tips and sources of info, including access to Edinburgh's planning and building records pre -1824, hosted on the OEC website. buff.ly/bmz0Odb

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Research your Edinburgh home - The Old Edinburgh Club

This is a guide to researching your Edinburgh home, intended to meet interest generated by David Olusoga's BBC series, A House Through Time.

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Knitted pigeons in the restored doocot at Newhailes - including (speckled?) Jim.

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

"End of VAT-relief on repairs for churches causing ‘catastrophic’ burden, committee hears" The Churches’ Legislation Advisory Service provided evidence to UK Parliament's Culture, Media and Sport Committee about impacts of the cancellation of this scheme 👇 www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

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End of VAT-relief on repairs for churches causing ‘catastrophic’ burden, committee hears

New Places of Worship Renewal Fund should be ‘at least as generous’ as scheme it replaced

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Just published in the Georgian Group Journal (2026) - Mylne's Land - Scotland's first modern tenement ? The story of a stone tenement in Leith designed by Robert Mylne (1633-1710), Master Mason to the Crown of Scotland, in 1678. It survived until 1955.

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Yeah - just google ‘English medieval castle’ for an image - what could possibly go wrong?

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neil guthrie @nguthrie.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Five pastel portraits by William Parry (1742-1791), c1770, almost certainly members of Sir William Watkins Wynn's Cycle Club, a late, sentimentalist #Jacobite group that met at Sir William's house in Wales. At Bonhams, London, est. £3,000-5,000 #c18th #c18 #18thc

Half-length portraits of gents in black or red coats; hair a mix of wigs, powdered and unpowdered coiffed natural hair (one bad pageboy cut with curls at the sides). Images are within ovals but the sheets are rectangular.

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LiberalDespot @druidic.org · 30/01/2026

And the proper stuff is amazing. This great refurb on John Cowan in Stirling really brought this home to me. 2018 vs 2021:

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Old Edinburgh Club @oldedinburghclub.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

This is exciting news for us. Our new YouTube channel is now live, and we've just posted our talks from the 2024/2025 session. Thanks to all the speakers for their permission to make their talks live for everyone to view. Check the talks out at buff.ly/DOLKg0h #edinburghhistorytalks #histoystories

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Old Edinburgh Club @oldedinburghclub.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Good news from Edinburgh City Council Archives: The Archives search room reopened on 20th January by appointment only, from Tuesday to Thursday, 10am - 4:30 pm. More info on their website buff.ly/mgz7Xl6 #edinburgharchives #edinburghhistory

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Kirsty Hartsiotis @stroudstory.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Doorway into St Helen's Bishopsgate, #London, although the church itself wasn't open to visitors, as it was busy with some kind of meeting or course. This door clearly dates from 1633 ... and is where they stash the bins! #AdoorableThursday #NoContextDoors

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Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

This has been such a fun project: Somerset house of c.1780-5, before and after the restoration of its Georgian windows.

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

From The Planner magazine. Hawick in Killin, Dublin in Limerick, (London)Derry in Louge Neagh and Barry in Builith Wells !!

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 08/01/2026

Edinburgh has been very lucky to retain five of its six beautiful Victorian public swimming baths in usable condition, so it's very encouraging that there's investment forthcoming to keep Portobello. If they are looked after, they will continue to serve the city for another century

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neil guthrie @nguthrie.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Born on this day in 1720, Prince Charles Edward Louis John Casimir Silvester Severino Maria of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Prince of Wales and later King Charles III in the #Jacobite succession #c18th #c18 #18thc #OTD

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

The sadly redundant St Helen's at Kilnsea, East Yorkshire, designed by the renowned Victorian architect William Burges in 1864.

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Undiscovered Scotland @undisscot.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Inside Cromarty East Church in Cromarty on the Black Isle, painstakingly restored to its original state to serve as a nationally important example of the changes that swept across Scotland's churches after the Reformation of 1560. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot... #Scotland #Cromarty

Inside Cromarty East Church in Cromarty on the Black Isle. The image shows a post-Reformation church interior with a wooden pulpit on the left and galleries above the rows of pews on the far side and the right. The far side gallery is painted light grey while that on the right is finished in wood. There’s a font in the bottom left of the frame.

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Airdrie Rambler @airdrierambler.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I found this the other day. The Corstorphine Doocot, all that remains of the Corstorphine Castle estate. #Edinburgh

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Just seen that the first five minutes of the never re-broadcast BBC Scottish Independence thriller 'Scotch on the Rocks' (1973) is on youtube. Great to see my gt-uncle George Robb chairing a SNP meeting ! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmY3...

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Scotch On The Rocks Phase 1 first 5 mins

YouTube video by Lee G Crime

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Lorraine @wolfq4.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

#31DaysOfGraves Day 30 is #Colour It has to be this fabulous cast iron monument by the Sun Foundry to commemorate the Mackenzie family in the Upsilon compartment of the #Glasgow #Necropolis It has been restored recently, and I think it looks great! #Gothic #DarkTourist #Cemetery #Taphophile

The stone tablet reads:
In loving memory of Alexander Mackenzie, merchant, Glasgow, died 31st January 1875, aged 62 years
Alice Melrose his wife, died 4th January 1900, aged 82 years
Four other (presumably) family members are interred and listed, James, Agnes Nelson, Alexander Whitson, and James.
Photo credit: Lorraine Murray, 2025

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 24/10/2025

The decline and fall of suburbia. A play in three acts.

Act 1. 2008. A 1960s suburban bungalow in Edinburgh, with a neat garden and well trimmed hedges and bushes. An old couple sit on a bench out front.

Act 2. 2012. The same suburban bungalow in Edinburgh. The garden has been dug up and covered in hardcore, the hedges removed and its wall removed and rebuilt. There are building materials in the front garden and a mini digger.

Act 3. 2019. The same bungalow. It is almost unrecognisable. It has been extended to one side and the attic converted. It has been re-roofed in dark grey tiles, all the windows are new and smaller with dark grey frames. The brick and harling has been replaced with flat white render. The garden is largely a driveway with two black Range Rovers in it. There is a small patch of low-maintenance garden to one side.

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Art Deco Society UK @artdecosocuk.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Join us for this special collaborative event with the Seaside Heritage Network, that brings together four speakers with distinctive insights into preservation, design, and place.

Graphic for Presering Our Seaside Art Deco Heritage. An online talk by four expert historians. Dr Kathryn Ferry, Allan Brodie, Karen Averby & Nigel Wilson. Wednesday November 12th. Art Deco Society.

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The Signet Library @signetlibrary.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

The BBC's "Who Do You Think You Are" Magazine new November 2025 issue's "Gem from the Archive" features the Signet Library's @oldedinburghclub.bsky.social funded project on the records of John Watson's Institution, research undertaken by @kgbaston.bsky.social @johockey.bsky.social

The front cover of November 2025's Who Do You Think You Are magazine showing two children leaning against a tree.

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Rhona Brown @rhonabrown.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

#OTD in 1774, Edinburgh poet Robert Fergusson died in the city’s asylum for pauper lunatics at 24. Despite the tragedy, his works are full of life, laughter and satire. My new edition of his works is out next year, but for now enjoy some treats from Project Fergusson robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk

A statue of Robert Fergusson outside Edinburgh’s Canongate Kirkyard. He is not on a plinth, but walking along the street, his coattails blowing and a book in his hand.

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Football Heritage @footballheritage.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Huge news for Cathkin Park! One of football's most treasured heritage assets has been designated a Scheduled Monument by Historic Environment Scotland. For a location as iconic as Cathkin Park to be recognised in this way is significant for preserving our football heritage.

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Alan Wilson @alanwilson.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Sad to see the recently uncovered ghost sign above The Elephant House on George IV Bridge being painted over. #ghostsign #Edinburgh

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

The Arms of King Charles III (no not that one) in the Palazzo di San Clemente in Florence. Charles Edward Stuart bought the palace in 1777 living there until 1785. The Latin motto states 'Charles III, born 1720, King of Great Britain and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, 1766.

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Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Incredible journey. This Roman tombstone has travelled further than the man it commemorates. It seems to have come to New Orleans probably through post WW2 looting. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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New Orleans couple discovers ancient Roman grave marker in their yard

Discovery of 1,900-year-old headstone dedicated to Roman sailor sets off effort to repatriate item to Italy

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Alison M @alisonm.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Loving all the #31DaysOfGraves posts. Today's theme is #tomb and with the Glasgow Necropolis on my doorstep I'm kind of spoiled for choice. Some of Glasgow's Victorian high-heejuns probably spent a good deal of their alloted span deciding how they could outdo each other in death.

Arab-influenced tomb in Glasgow Necropolis. A hexagonal tower with a domed top. A set of steps leads up to the entrance.

Detail of the diamond patterned carvings around the doorway of the same tomb.

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The Past and other Places @pastandotherplaces.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

#31DaysofGraves Day 3: Tomb. 18th century table memorial to Straiton or Stratton family of Tower Farm, Liberton. The carving on the end displays arable work including ploughing, breaking up the soil and sowing seeds. Liberton Kirkyard, #Edinburgh. #farming #LocalHistory 📚🗃️ 📷 flic.kr/p/2qEDc1j

Stone table top tomb in graveyard. The light is highlighting the carving on the end showing arable work on the farm, including ploughing, breaking up the soil and sowing seeds. At the top of the panel, farm buildings and distant hills can be seen.

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PastRewind @past-rewind.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

A pleasant find in The Albion pub, Hastings. A Wm. Younger pub of yore that has this wonderful decoration. All the major Scottish clans represented with their tartans. So.... @boakandbailey.bsky.social and @rogerprotz.bsky.social was this a common thing in Younger's pubs?

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 03/10/2025

In memoriam...

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Just published in the Transactions of the LCAS -a study on the pastoral staff of Bishop Thomas Deacon. A rare nonjuring artefact it passed to four subsequent Bishops before use as a Templar Masonic Staff and museum exhibit. Surviving both auctions and thefts it is now held at @lampallib.bsky.social

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Its niche -but here's my article on William Cartwright of Shrewsbury -last (almost) of the nonjuring Bishops. Son-in-law of Thomas Deacon he started as a Jacobite and ended with his family as the only members of his congregation. #nonjuring #jacobite shropshirearchaeologyhistory.org/wp-content/u...

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Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

One for @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social - I was reading this morning about the Asda 'Price Promise' stones that were erected across the country in the 90s loststonesofasda.wordpress.com Some are definitely on the way to being archaeological monuments, such as this one in Trumfleet, South Yorkshire

A stone that looks like a prehistoric standing stone but inscribed with "Asda Price Promise Permanently [text obscured] prices [text obscured].

The stone is by a Drystone wall and vegetation grows around it

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Sir John Hynde Cotton (1686-1752) - Tory politician and Jacobite sympathiser. When told that drinking less wine would be better for his gout-affected leg, he replied 'if it would not bear his usual allowance of six bottles it was no leg to him'.

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Fire on Arthur’s Seat - still spreading

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C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

💥The Bernat Klein Studio has been saved! This morning the coalition of Scottish heritage organisations secured the property at auction with a winning bid of £279,000. The studio will now be restored and brought back into public use, creating a new venue for creative arts in the Scottish Borders.

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Brian McRoberts @brimcrob.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

A takeaway on Leith Walk is getting renovated and reveals a ghost sign #Edinburgh #Leith #GohstSign

A takeaway shop on Leith Walk reveals its ghost sign.

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The Victorian Society @thevicsoc.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

It is with great sorrow that the Society shares the news of the death of Professor Andrew Saint. We deeply mourn the loss of a great scholar and a much loved companion. Read more: bit.ly/457fEQJ An obituary will appear in the November edition of The Victorian, our membership magazine. #heritage

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

A bit of Durham concrete for you.

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