Restoring Medieval Edinburgh in the Nineteenth Century

• Utgivningsdatum: 2027-02-28
• Mått: 170 x 244 x undefined mm
• Format: Inbunden
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 288
• Förlag: Edinburgh University Press
• ISBN: 9781399571180

• Arkitekturhistoria
• Medeltiden
• Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria

R.J. Morris was Professor Emeritus in Economic and Social History at Edinburgh University. He wrote widely on the middle classes, urban development and associational culture. His publications includes Men, Women and Property in England, 1780-1870; Scotland 1907, The Many Scotlands of Valentine and Sons, Photographers; Politics, Economy and Society; ‘Reading the riot commission: Belfast 1857', Irish Historical Studies, 2019; ‘New Spaces for Scotland, 1800 to 1900’, in Griffiths and Morton (eds), A History of Everyday Life in Scotland, 1800-1900; and ‘Urban Ulster’ in Kennedy and Ollerenshaw, Ulster since 1600. Helen M. Morris holds a DPhil (PhD) in International Relations from St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford. She held a Marie Curie Research Fellowship at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels during which she published a number of book chapters and referred academic articles. She works as a Senior Speechwriter in the Canadian Government writing a range of materials including Ministerial keynote addresses, speeches for parliamentary debates, press conferences and public events. Barbara Morris has a BA in Geography from Queen’s University, Belfast. She first worked in the Foreign Office and then as Investigator of Architectural History and Archaeology at the Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments in Wales. An appointment to the Clarendon Press in Oxford was an early introduction to digital mapping. More recently, in a Data Library team in Edinburgh University, she researched and delivered Ordnance Survey maps and the Statistical Accounts of Scotland online to UK universities. She has also edited for publication many Economic and Social History articles and text books.

This richly illustrated book advances understanding of the formation of urban and national identities. It does so through a detailed analysis of how the modern shapes, functions, and symbolism of iconic historic buildings such as Edinburgh Castle emerged from the contested efforts of major groups and leading individuals. A final instalment of the distinguished publications of the late Bob Morris, completed through the efforts of his daughter and widow, Restoring Medieval Edinburgh in the Nineteenth Century: Architecture, Heritage and Scottish Identity is an important contribution to urban history in general as well as to the histories of Edinburgh and Scotland in particular.

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