Lost History

From mean beginnings – ‘wretched accommodation, no comfortable houses, no soft beds’, visiting French knights complained in 1341 – the city of Edinburgh went on to become one of the architectural...

Featuring archive photographs, many of which are published for the first time, Lost Aberdeen paints a fascinating portrait of one of Scotland’s greatest cities. Diane Morgan charts the disappearance of the irreplaceable medieval townscape before moving on to more modern times, tracing the evolution and gradual erosion of the Granite City.