R.J. Morris was Professor Emeritus in Economic and Social History at Edinburgh University. He wrote widely on the middle classes, urban development and associational culture. His publications includes Men, Women and Property in England, 1780-1870; Scotland 1907, The Many Scotlands of Valentine and Sons, Photographers; Politics, Economy and Society; ‘Reading the riot commission: Belfast 1857', Irish Historical Studies, 2019; ‘New Spaces for Scotland, 1800 to 1900’, in Griffiths and Morton (eds), A History of Everyday Life in Scotland, 1800-1900; and ‘Urban Ulster’ in Kennedy and Ollerenshaw, Ulster since 1600. Helen M. Morris holds a DPhil (PhD) in International Relations from St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford. She held a Marie Curie Research Fellowship at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels during which she published a number of book chapters and referred academic articles. She works as a Senior Speechwriter in the Canadian Government writing a range of materials including Ministerial keynote addresses, speeches for parliamentary debates, press conferences and public events. Barbara Morris has a BA in Geography from Queen’s University, Belfast. She first worked in the Foreign Office and then as Investigator of Architectural History and Archaeology at the Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments in Wales. An appointment to the Clarendon Press in Oxford was an early introduction to digital mapping. More recently, in a Data Library team in Edinburgh University, she researched and delivered Ordnance Survey maps and the Statistical Accounts of Scotland online to UK universities. She has also edited for publication many Economic and Social History articles and text books.

• ForewordAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Re-imaging Scottish Identity through 19th-Century Architectural Restorations of John Knox House, Edinburgh Castle, and St Giles' CathedralPart I: John Knox HouseChapter 1 John Knox House facing division and degradationChapter 2 John Knox House saved for a city in crisisPart II: Edinburgh CastleChapter 3 Edinburgh Castle: a monument to represent the nationChapter 4 Edinburgh Castle: Restoration and Evolving StoriesPart III: St Giles’ Cathedral Chapter 5 Creating a presbyterian cathedral in ScotlandChapter 6 St Giles’ Cathedral and RoyaltyConclusion: Architectural Heritage, Collective Memory, and National Identity in 19th-Century Edinburgh’s Built EnvironmentBibliography