Chop Suey on Chambers Street: the thread about Edinburgh’s first Chinese restaurant 中式餐廳

Edinburgh is spoiled for restaurants serving global cuisine. Go back 100 years however and your options were far more limited and localised. That all changed with the arrival of the "Chinese Restaurant" in 1930. It is long gone and accounts of it are contradictory and vague. This thread provides a factual account of this lesser-known institution of the city's diaspora.

Milliner, Haberdasher, Caricature: the thread about Sibbie Hutton, the “Most Fantastic Lady of Her Day”

Today marks 200 years since the death of John Kay, the Edinburgh barber turned artist, etcher and engraver renowned for his prolific caricatures. In the best Georgian tradition, these gently lampoon the great and the good of the city's society in the late 18th century. But this post isn't a homage to the man himself, there are whole books written on his subject. Rather, in Threadinburgh style, we…

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