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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal was a weekly 16-page magazine started by William Chambers in 1832. [1] The first edition was dated 4 February 1832, [ 2 ] and priced at one penny . Topics included history, religion, language, and science.
In 1824, Robert wrote, and the brothers published, Traditions of Edinburgh. Education was always the main priority for William and Robert. [1] In 1832, they published The Chambers Journal, a weekly newspaper containing articles on subjects such as history, religion, language and science, many of which were written by Robert himself. It was an ...
In 1868 he built a new printworks immediately west of the City Chambers (demolished in the 1930s). [10] In 1872 Edinburgh University awarded Chambers an honorary doctorate (LLD). [11] Chambers died at home at 13 Chester Street [12] in Edinburgh's West End on 20 May 1883 and was buried in the family plot in Peebles Cemetery. [8]
The building's name commemorates Adam Square, one of the three 18th century residential squares built to make way for Chambers Street as part of the 1867 City Improvement Act. [ 1 ] As well as its use as an examination hall, it is also used as a venue for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe , the world's largest arts festival, where for many years it ...
Robert Chambers FRSE (March 1832 – 23 March 1888) was a Scottish publisher, editor of Chambers' Journal, amateur golfer and encyclopaedist, the son of Robert Chambers, the co-founder of the W & R Chambers publishing house in Edinburgh.
Robert Chambers FRSE FGS (/ ˈ tʃ eɪ m b ər z /; 10 July 1802 – 17 March 1871) [2] was a Scottish publisher, geologist, evolutionary thinker, author and journal editor who, like his elder brother and business partner William Chambers, was highly influential in mid-19th-century scientific and political circles.
Charles Knight created it for the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge in response to Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, which started two months earlier. Sold for only a penny and illustrated with wood-engravings, it was an expensive enterprise that could only be supported by very large circulation.
The Journal was an independent, fortnightly, local newspaper originally produced by students at seven major higher and further education institutes in Edinburgh.It was distributed at a number of locations across the city's universities and colleges, as well as at bars and cafés throughout the Scottish capital.