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1700– Modern Edinburgh

Edinburgh New Town, UNESCO World Heritage site since 1995. Scotland, United Kingdom

Around the start of the 18th century the nobility were increasingly joined in their wealth by a section of society who'd acquired riches through trade and industry.

The Museum on the Mound helps trace the role of banking and money in one industry vital to the city. The Scottish Enlightenment blossomed too, as the Writers’ Museum attests.

Both transitions created enough wealthy and urbane citizens to demand Edinburgh provide more opulent surroundings than the chaotic and cramped Old Town could offer. The city responded with a planned and orderly expansion into a 18th-century New Town – where the rich could live in style in properties such as Georgian House.

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Charlotte Square & Georgian House

Monumental Georgian plaza

Greyfriars Kirk

Covenanters’ Bastion

Museum of Edinburgh

The capital city on itself

Museum on the Mound

Money explored

National Museum of Scotland

Heavyweight national treasure-trove

The People's Story

Qwirky social history

Royal Yacht Britannia

Former roving royal palace

The Scottish Parliament

The seat of Scotland's democracy

The Writers’ Museum

Literary backgrounder

Text © Christian Williams

Image by Ralf Steinberger