Mapping Edinburgh's Furniture Makers (MEFM) Project

Project organising student volunteers to capture and enter locational data for Edinburgh's furniture makers in 1750, 1800 and 1850. Made use of NLS georeferenced maps, and collaborated with Prof. Richard Rodger's Mapping Edinburgh's Social History (MESH) project, with three teams of student research assistants. Each team consisted of an undergraduate and a postgraduate. Their date was then double checked and cleaned as needed, before handing over to the MESH Project for mapping. All participants then wrote a blog for the funding body, the Furniture History Society's 'BIFMO' website, where the datasets, maps and blogs will be displayed.

Mapping furniture makers in 1750, 1800 and 1850 Edinburgh.

Relative lack of clustering, and continued sparsity of production on the High Street after the development of the New Town. More work is needed, as these maps were only ever intended to be impressionistic, but such impressions raise interesting questions about the removal of the merchant class from the Old Town.