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Tag: Written 2024
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The thread about Ramage & Ferguson, the Leith shipyard that built luxury steam yachts for the rich and famous
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The thread about the history of Leith’s parliamentary representation and why it resulted in a “Dirty Trick”
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The thread about the Causewayside Lads Institute and the wandering life of Victor de Spiganovicz, self-described “Mystery Man”
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The thread about the Rule of the Strap; the origins and demise of the peculiar corporal punishment in Scottish education
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The thread about the Leith Races; the foremost sporting event in Georgian Scotland and a riotous week of gambling, drinking and fighting
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The thread about 122 years of local political change in Edinburgh; from Moderates and Progressives to Communists and Protestants
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The thread about the Jawbone Arch; 127 years on the Meadows but missing over a decade
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The thread about the real story of the Penny Tenement; slums and landlordism in 1950s Edinburgh
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