User:Mike Marchmont

Hello and thank you for visiting my user page.

I started out as a Wikipedia editor in April 2020. It took me a long time to learn my way round this vast system. Now, after four years I have just about got the hang of it although I still don't always do things correctly. As at April 2024, I have made around a thousand edits to some 360 main namespace articles.

As a former journalist and editor, I tend to notice text that needs copy-editing in some way: spelling errors, bad grammar, tautologies or language that simply needs tidying up. I try to correct these when I can. I have also been able to add substantial new material to several articles, and have written a number of articles from scratch.

• History, especially Scottish.

• Edinburgh, its history, politics and culture.

• Science and technology.

• Modern languages.

• Henry Littlejohn: A 19th Century pioneer in public health who made enormous improvements to the health and well-being of the inhabitants of Edinburgh.

• Marchmont: A residential district which was named in my honour.

• Morningside: Another residential district in my part of the world.

• Sciennes: Yet another residential district.

• Stuart Harris: An Edinburgh historian whose works have proved very useful to me (and to many others).

• Corstorphine Hill: A local nature reserve where there are lots of trees, some interesting wildlife and a Cold War nuclear bunker.

• Swanston: A delightful village at the foot of the Pentland Hills; of interest to fans of Robert Louis Stevenson.

• Duncan Napier: A Victorian botanist who did much to establish herbalism as a recognised branch of medicine.

• Assassination of Nikolay Bobrikov, which took place in Helsinki when Finland was a grand duchy within the Russian Empire.

• John Hope: another interesting person from 19th Century Edinburgh.

• London's last tram week, which I published on the 70th anniversary of the event in question.

• Cannonball House. An interesting 17th-century town house on Edinburgh's Royal Mile.

• George Washington Browne. A prolific architect who worked on nearly 300 projects around Scotland.

• Mayfield Salisbury Church. A 19th century building in my part of the world with a varied history.

• James Thin. A 19th century Edinburgh bookseller who built a business that survived for five generations of his family.

• Roger Croucher. A man of the theatre. He was involved at various times with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Court Theatre and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

• Waverley Steps. A short documentary film about Edinburgh. If you know the city — and especially if you remember it from the mid 20th century — you'll almost certainly recognise most or all of the places where it was filmed.

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