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Black's Guide to Yorkshire, 1862. Black's Guides were travel guide books published by the Adam and Charles Black firm of Edinburgh (later London) beginning in 1839. [1] The series' style tended towards the "colloquial, with fewer cultural pretensions" than its leading competitor Baedeker Guides. [2]
His debut book The Town Below The Ground was the first written about Edinburgh’s forgotten ‘Underground City’ and helped popularise it as a major historical attraction. The Ghost That Haunted Itself made the Mackenzie Poltergeist in Greyfriars Graveyard famous, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] now widely regarded [ by whom? ] as the world’s most extensively ...
The Balmoral was the first hotel in Scotland to be awarded five stars by Forbes Travel Guide. [8] The Number One restaurant under executive chef Jeff Bland was awarded a Michelin star in 2003, [2] but lost its star in 2022. [9] The main event spaces and those bedrooms with views of Edinburgh Castle were refurbished in 2017. [7]
The Oxford Bar is a public house situated on Young Street, in the New Town of Edinburgh, Scotland. The pub is chiefly notable for having been featured in Sir Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus series of novels. The Oxford Bar, or The Ox, is John Rebus's favourite pub in Edinburgh. [2]
The Lavender Menace Bookshop was an independent gay bookshop in Edinburgh from 1982 to 1986. [1] It was the first gay bookshop in Scotland and the second in the United Kingdom. As of 2019, the Lavender Menace now operates as The Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive.
There are over 24 million items held at the Library in various formats including books, annotated manuscripts and first-drafts, postcards, photographs, and newspapers. The library is also home to Scotland's Moving Image Archive, [4] a collection of over 46,000 videos and films.
Ward & Lock's Illustrated Guide to and Popular History of the Isle of Man, 1883. Ward Lock travel guides or Red Guides (1870s–1970s) were tourist guide books to the British Isles and continental Europe published by Ward, Lock & Co. of London. [1] The firm proclaimed them "amusing and readable" and the "cheapest and most trustworthy guides."
Chambers was founded as W. & R. Chambers Publishers by the two brothers William Chambers of Glenormiston and Robert Chambers.They were born into a rich, mill-owning family in Peebles in Scotland in 1800 and 1802 respectively, during the time of the war with France.