History of Leith, Edinburgh

This account begins: ‘An account of the Execution of these two unfortunate men James Anderson and David Glenn at Ayr, on Friday the 12th Dec. Their bodies were brought into the College this morning for dissection.’ for more click here

This report begins: ‘A Full and Particular Account of the Trial and Sentence of ALEXANDER M’KAY, and WILLIAM M’DONALD, for Assult and Stabbing on the Streets of Edinburgh ; the former of whom is to be Publicly Whipped, on a Platform at the head of Libberton’s Wynd, on Wednesday the 27th July, 1825, at one o’Clock afternoon, and to be afterwards Banished for Seven years ; and M’Donald to be confined in Bridwell for Twelve months, at Hard Labonr.’ The broadside was published in Edinburgh by William Robertson, and sold for a penny.for more click here

Robert was the elder son of Patrick Tennent (1782-1872), Writer to the Signet, and Margaret Rodger Lyon (1794-1867). A member of the Edinburgh Calotype Club. for more click here

Some unusual acquisitions were shown to the Trustees of the National Library in June 2002, several of which shared the theme of travel and voyages. One broadside, entitled A full, true, and particular account of the trial and condemnation of Wilson Potts, is unrecorded. Potts was tried in Edinburgh for various piratical offences, including the charge of kidnapping a woman from the Faeroe Islands. His fate was to be hanged at the Stood Mark, ‘a rock about two miles in the sea’ off Leith. No year is given. but it appears to be an early eighteenth-century printing. February 13th fell on a Wednesday in 1712 and 1723. for more click here

Source of information on Trade Unions and Co-operative Societies. for more click here

of landed estates situated between Dumfries and Sanquhar, and to the Magistrates of these Royal Burghs. … Leith. 1826, … The new pilot for the east coast of Scotland. for more click here

Newspaper Titles (From the past and present). for more click here

A COLD-case murder investigation has uncovered new evidence of a killing – 2,000 years after a man’s remains were dumped in a shallow grave.

The discovery of the human skeleton was made last year in the remains of an Iron Age workshop near Mine Howe, an underground chamber in Orkney.for more click here