It’s difficult to pin down exactly when Edinburgh—as we know it—first came to be. Nonetheless, in 1124 King David I introduced a new system of local government into Scotland by creating royal burghs as part of his efforts to reform the nation’s economic and political structures and this seems an appropriate marker. The sheer magnitude of the history that has taken place in this time is hard to comprehend. Scotland’s capital has seen the rise and fall of monarchies, it has been part of different... Read this story
