Edinburgh

Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, located on the Firth of Forth estuary in the southeast of the country. It is the seat of the Scottish Government and Scottish Parliament, and home to the Palace of Holyrood House, the official residence of the British monarch in Scotland. The city was the centre of the Scottish Enlightenment in the eighteenth century.

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The British Empire and Its Development (and Fall)

Coordinates

Latitude: 55.946406043836
Longitude: -3.159586787006

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Timeline of Events Associated with Edinburgh

Date Event Manage
10 Oct 1802

Edinburgh Review first published

first issue of the Edinburgh ReviewOn 10 October 1802, the first number of the Edinburgh Review was published. The Edinburgh Review was the most famous periodical of the age, introducing into the periodical field the powerful new format of the quarterly review. Image: The first issue of the Edinburgh Review. This image is in the public domain in the United States because its copyright has expired.

Articles

Ina Ferris, “The Debut of The Edinburgh Review, 1802″
1 Apr 1817

First number of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

cover of Blackwood'sOn 1 April 1817, the first number of Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine was published. Founded by Scottish bookseller and publisher William Blackwood, the monthly literary magazine targeted a growing middle-class readership. Image: Paper cover for issue of Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (Nov. 1866). This image is in the public domain in the United States as its copyright has expired.

Articles

Michelle Allen-Emerson, “On Magazine Day”

Related Articles

Ina Ferris, “The Debut of The Edinburgh Review, 1802″
Jan 1829

Trial of William Burke

Drawing of Hare and BurkeIn January 1829, William Burke was tried for the murder of sixteen people in Edinburgh, for the purpose of selling their bodies to anatomists in Edinburgh. His accomplice, William Hare, turned King’s evidence and avoided prosecution. He was hanged and sentenced to be anatomized and displayed; his skeleton still hangs today in the Anatomy Museum at Edinburgh University Medical School. Image: Drawing of Hare and Burke (c. 1850). This image is in the public domain in the United States because its copyright has expired.

Articles

Pamela Gilbert, "On Cholera in Nineteenth-Century England"