On 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.

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

On 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.

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Michelle Allen-Emerson, “On Magazine Day”

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

In 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.

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