March 17, 2023March 17, 2023 threadinburgh

The thread about St. Patrick, Cabbagehall and Turniphall in the 18th century Southside of Edinburgh

January 6, 2023January 10, 2023 threadinburgh

The thread about the Edinburgh Hostels for Women Students and their brief wartime role as an Internment Camp for German “Enemy Aliens”

January 4, 2023January 4, 2023 threadinburgh

The thread about the Tenth Day of Christmas; Lord Russell Place and why the City honoured this name

December 30, 2022December 31, 2022 threadinburgh

The thread about the Sixth Day of Christmas; the geese of the Guse Dub

December 25, 2022December 28, 2022 threadinburgh

The thread about the First Day of Christmas; an Edinburgh Pear Tree connection

October 15, 2022 threadinburgh

The thread about the Sciennes School Strike of 1925; why it was stoked by political sectarianism and how a group of mothers stood up to the authorities and won

October 11, 2022 threadinburgh

The thread about the early history of vegetarianism in Edinburgh; the pioneering café that was a haven for suffragettes and the tragic demise of its idealistic founder

September 27, 2022September 27, 2022 threadinburgh

The thread about the worst school in the world; why it is unfairly linked with a very different Edinburgh establishment of the same name; and what it has to do with the shortest serving PM of the 20th century

September 23, 2022September 27, 2022 threadinburgh

The thread about the Zeppelin Air Raid that terrorised Edinburgh and Leith in 1916 and left 14 dead and 24 wounded

September 19, 2022September 19, 2022 threadinburgh

The thread about the “Battle of South Clerk Street”, or when the students of Edinburgh went briefly to war over the inauguration of the electric tramway system