Port of Leith : Its History and Its People

The author has examined a vast body of previously unconsulted documents - testaments, deeds, property deals, trading records, personal papers, local court books - in order to flesh out our understanding of Leith and its people. This is a scholarly and thorough study, but it is also eminently readable and filled with entertaining and fascinating details both of daily life and unusual events. This book will appeal to specialists, but also to anyone who is interested in Scottish political, social and economic history. Local historians or those investigating naval or family history will find it invaluable, and it will be a fertile source for school and college projects.

The book is illustrated throughout with a variety of maps, historic photographs, line drawings and extracts from original documents.