The November 2025 issue of the well-known genealogical magazine Who Do You Think You Are featured the WS Society’s project to conserve and catalogue a large archive of records relating to the early year of the WS Society’s school for orphans, John Watson’s Institution. The project has been made possible by generous funding from the Old Edinburgh Club’s Jean Guild grant scheme.
Research was undertaken by Dr Kit Baston and Jo Hockey with support from our Research Principal James Hamilton.