December 6, 2022December 7, 2022 threadinburgh

The thread about two very different Edinburgh schools that were built at the same time, for two very different visions of secondary education (and why Boroughmuir was built wrong. Twice.)

October 31, 2022 threadinburgh

The thread about the Royal Mint of Scotland; what connects it to a pioneering school for the city’s poorest children, and how it has continued to serve marginalised people in the city

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