Enlightenment Edinburgh
A Guide
by Sheila Szatkowski
£12.99
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Reviews
This appealing, elegant and lively book would be an excellent companion for a first-time visitor . . . but it is also a work that can be read with pleasure and profit by any resident of Edinburgh
Book of the Old Edinburgh Club
Gives us snippets and gems found in little known corners . . . This lavishly illustrated book is one to relish for its humour and erudition
Edinburgh Old Town Association
a marvellous celebration
Edinburgh World Heritage
a book with lasting value: a book that can be referred to time and again, and which will see us directing our own further exploration of a city we already know pretty well ... The text is supported by excellent illustrations: modern colour photographs and old sepia or monochrome images, all beautifully printed; plus an outstanding set of maps that ensures the city's complex geography is made very clear… whether you are a long-term resident of Edinburgh looking for fresh ideas, or making your first visit for a long weekend, give this book a look: in either case it will allow you to make more of the city... a thoroughly interesting read'
Undiscovered Scotland
That’s the moment Szatkowski's love affair with Edinburgh and its history began, and it's a love that infuses every page of Enlightenment Edinburgh: A Guide… it's taught me a great deal
David Robinson
About the Book
During the 18th century, Edinburgh was the intellectual hub of the Western world. Adam Smith, David Hume, Dugald Stewart and Adam Ferguson delivered their diverse tomes on philosophy and political economy. Others such as James Hutton, Joseph Black, Lord Hailes, Sir John Clerk of Eldin and Robert Adam pushed ahead with new discoveries and ideas in the fields of science, medicine, law and architecture.
If Edinburgh was the beating heart of this Scottish Enlightenment then its physical embodiment was the New Town and the great civic improvements in the old medieval city. In this informative and highly illustrated guide Sheila Szatkowski introduces the noteworthy buildings and people of 18th- and early 19th-century Edinburgh.
It is a book about people and places, clubs and conversations, and a celebration of how topography and cultural achievement came together to create the great enlightenment city that is Edinburgh.
The Author
Sheila Szatkowski
Sheila Szatkowski is an historian and writer who has lectured and written extensively on Edinburgh characters of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She is founder of The 227 Club, whose main purpose is the celebration of the humour and conviviality of the Scottish Enlightenment.
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