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day by day guide
day by day history
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diaries
Edinburgh
edinburgh book
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edinburgh guide
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Product details
- ISBN 9780752458410
- Weight: 370g
- Dimensions: 130 x 180mm
- Publication Date: 01 Mar 2011
- Publisher: The History Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Drawn from original records, diaries and contemporary reports, The Edinburgh Book of Days contains a momentous, calamitous or intriguing event or fact for every day of the year, from the earliest periods of Edinburgh's history to the present. Among these are extracts about politics, crime, religion, education, sport and the arts; all topics that resonate in today’s world. This informative and fascinating little book will enthral residents and visitors alike, revealing how the hopes and fears of our ancestors are not so far from our own.
Michael T R B Turnbull is a retired teacher and further education lecturer in Communication and in Tourism who graduated with an MA at the University of Cambridge, before studying Drawing and Painting for 4 years at the Edinburgh College of Art (now part of Edinburgh University). In 2005 he gained a PhD in Ecclesiastical History from the University of Edinburgh and also held visiting fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study of the Humanities (2009) and from New College (2009-10), both at the University of Edinburgh. He has twice been awarded a Scottish Arts Council Writer’s bursary (1993, 1997) and a Glenfiddich Living Scotland Award (1986, 1991), as well as a Sir Winston Churchill Memorial Fellowship (1993). He is listed on the Scottish Book Trust’s Writers’ Register and has worked as a presenter, interviewer and actor for BBC Radio Scotland. He is the author of numerous articles and 20 books — including the operatic biographies Joseph Hislop: Gran Tenore (Scolar Press, 1992) and Mary Garden (Scolar Press, 1997).
