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Come with us as we continue our journey through 900 years of Edinburgh’s history since the city gained royal burgh status, with the story of Edinburgh as a City of Commerce.
The story begins in the 1400s with the markets dotted across the city where medieval business was conducted and describes how trade developed over time, and which people and organisations prospered through their privileged access to trade. It explains how Edinburgh’s commercial fortunes were for centuries inextricably linked to the harbour at Leith.
And find out how Daniel Defoe, best known today as the author of Robinson Crusoe, played an undercover role in Edinburgh for the English government during the negotiations around the Act of Union!
