Author: Liz Hanson
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445635186
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
A wonderful collection of rare and previously unpublished images of Edinburgh a century ago, presented in full colour.
Lost Edinburgh in Colour
Author: Liz Hanson
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445635186
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
A wonderful collection of rare and previously unpublished images of Edinburgh a century ago, presented in full colour.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445635186
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
A wonderful collection of rare and previously unpublished images of Edinburgh a century ago, presented in full colour.
Lost Edinburgh
Author: Liz Hanson
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445687496
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
Fully illustrated exploration of Edinburgh's well-known and lesser-known places and buildings that have been lost over the years.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445687496
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
Fully illustrated exploration of Edinburgh's well-known and lesser-known places and buildings that have been lost over the years.
Lost Edinburgh
Author: Hamish Coghill
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 0857906240
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
An exploration of the stories behind the many buildings lost to history in Scotland’s capital city. What happened to Edinburgh’s once notorious but picturesque Tolbooth Prison? Where was the Black Turnpike, once a dominant building in the town? Why has one of the New Town designer’s major layouts been all but obliterated? What else has been lost in Edinburgh? From Edinburgh’s mean beginnings—“wretched accommodation, no comfortable houses, no soft beds,” visiting French knights complained in 1341—it went on to attract some of the world’s greatest architects to design and build and shape a unique city. But over the centuries many of those fine buildings have gone. Some were destroyed by invasion and civil strife, some simply collapsed with old age and neglect, and others were swept away in the “improvements” of the nineteenth century. Yet more fell to the developers’ swathe of destruction in the twentieth century. Much of the medieval architecture vanished in the Old Town, Georgian Squares were attacked, Princes Street ruined, old tenements razed in huge slum clearance drives, and once familiar and much-loved buildings vanished. The changing pattern of industry, social habits, health service, housing, and road systems all took their toll; not even the city wall was immune. The buildings that stood in the way of what was deemed progress are the heritage of Lost Edinburgh. In this informative book, author Hamish Coghill sets out to trace many of the lost buildings and find out why they were doomed. Lavishly illustrated, Lost Edinburgh is a fascinating insight into an ever-changing cityscape.
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 0857906240
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
An exploration of the stories behind the many buildings lost to history in Scotland’s capital city. What happened to Edinburgh’s once notorious but picturesque Tolbooth Prison? Where was the Black Turnpike, once a dominant building in the town? Why has one of the New Town designer’s major layouts been all but obliterated? What else has been lost in Edinburgh? From Edinburgh’s mean beginnings—“wretched accommodation, no comfortable houses, no soft beds,” visiting French knights complained in 1341—it went on to attract some of the world’s greatest architects to design and build and shape a unique city. But over the centuries many of those fine buildings have gone. Some were destroyed by invasion and civil strife, some simply collapsed with old age and neglect, and others were swept away in the “improvements” of the nineteenth century. Yet more fell to the developers’ swathe of destruction in the twentieth century. Much of the medieval architecture vanished in the Old Town, Georgian Squares were attacked, Princes Street ruined, old tenements razed in huge slum clearance drives, and once familiar and much-loved buildings vanished. The changing pattern of industry, social habits, health service, housing, and road systems all took their toll; not even the city wall was immune. The buildings that stood in the way of what was deemed progress are the heritage of Lost Edinburgh. In this informative book, author Hamish Coghill sets out to trace many of the lost buildings and find out why they were doomed. Lavishly illustrated, Lost Edinburgh is a fascinating insight into an ever-changing cityscape.
Publications of the Scottish History Society
Author: Scottish History Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
A Contribution to the Bibliography of Scottish Topography
Author: Sir Arthur Mitchell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Edinburgh
Author: Michael Fry
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 0330539973
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
The late poet laureate, Sir John Betjeman, said that Edinburgh was the most beautiful city in Europe. Like some other great cities it is set on seven hills. But only one of these, Rome, rivals Edinburgh in matching the beauty of its setting with the stateliness of its buildings. Edinbrugh, too, provides the backdrop to much of the dark drama of the Scottish past, from Mary Queen of Scots to Bonnie Prince Charlie and beyond. Michael Fry, who has lived and worked there for nearly forty years, provides a compellingly readable account of this great city, from the earliest times to the present, balancing Edinburgh's cultural, political and social history, and painting a vivid portrait of a city - that like Stevenson's Dr Jekyll - is both dark and light, both dark and light, both 'Auld Reekie' and 'Athens of the North'. ‘Impressive ... in the style of Peter Ackroyd’s history of London’ Magnus Linklator, Spectator 'No one interested in the history of Edinburgh, and indeed Scotland, should be without it’ Allan Massie,Scotsman
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 0330539973
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
The late poet laureate, Sir John Betjeman, said that Edinburgh was the most beautiful city in Europe. Like some other great cities it is set on seven hills. But only one of these, Rome, rivals Edinburgh in matching the beauty of its setting with the stateliness of its buildings. Edinbrugh, too, provides the backdrop to much of the dark drama of the Scottish past, from Mary Queen of Scots to Bonnie Prince Charlie and beyond. Michael Fry, who has lived and worked there for nearly forty years, provides a compellingly readable account of this great city, from the earliest times to the present, balancing Edinburgh's cultural, political and social history, and painting a vivid portrait of a city - that like Stevenson's Dr Jekyll - is both dark and light, both dark and light, both 'Auld Reekie' and 'Athens of the North'. ‘Impressive ... in the style of Peter Ackroyd’s history of London’ Magnus Linklator, Spectator 'No one interested in the history of Edinburgh, and indeed Scotland, should be without it’ Allan Massie,Scotsman
The Bookman
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Auction-sale catalogues of items other than books and manuscripts
Author: Dowell's, ltd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Bibliotheca Scotia
Author: John Smith & Sons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
People-Centred Methodologies for Heritage Conservation
Author: Rebecca Madgin
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000391000
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This book presents methodological approaches that can help explore the ways in which people develop emotional attachments to historic urban places. With a focus on the powerful relations that form between people and places, this book uses people-centred methodologies to examine the ways in which emotional attachments can be accessed, researched, interpreted and documented as part of heritage scholarship and management. It demonstrates how a range of different research methods drawn primarily from disciplines across the arts, humanities and social sciences can be used to better understand the cultural values of heritage places. In so doing, the chapters bring together a series of diverse case studies from both established and early-career scholars in Australia, China, Europe, North America and Central America. These case studies outline methods that have been successfully employed to consider attachments between people and historic places in different contexts. This book advocates a need to shift to a more nuanced understanding of people’s relations to historic places by situating emotional attachments at the core of urban heritage thinking and practice. It offers a practical guide for both academics and industry professionals towards people-centred methodologies for urban heritage conservation.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000391000
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This book presents methodological approaches that can help explore the ways in which people develop emotional attachments to historic urban places. With a focus on the powerful relations that form between people and places, this book uses people-centred methodologies to examine the ways in which emotional attachments can be accessed, researched, interpreted and documented as part of heritage scholarship and management. It demonstrates how a range of different research methods drawn primarily from disciplines across the arts, humanities and social sciences can be used to better understand the cultural values of heritage places. In so doing, the chapters bring together a series of diverse case studies from both established and early-career scholars in Australia, China, Europe, North America and Central America. These case studies outline methods that have been successfully employed to consider attachments between people and historic places in different contexts. This book advocates a need to shift to a more nuanced understanding of people’s relations to historic places by situating emotional attachments at the core of urban heritage thinking and practice. It offers a practical guide for both academics and industry professionals towards people-centred methodologies for urban heritage conservation.