The Royal Scots Club

The Royal Scots Club offers that rare combination; the charm of a country house hotel with a cosy club atmosphere.

About The Royal Scots Club

	29-31 Abercromby Place, Edinburgh New Town EH3 6QE
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Founded in 1919 as a tribute to those who fell in The Great War, and situated in one of Edinburgh’s finest Georgian streets, The Royal Scots Club offers that rare combination; the charm of a country house hotel with a cosy club atmosphere.

More personal than a hotel, this is the perfect home from home to relish the culture and character of Scotland’s capital city. We are open for bed and breakfast, meetings and events, functions and private dining, and offer excellent cuisine in our Dining Room. The privileges of membership include preferential rates for all of our services and facilities, a busy social programme and access to a worldwide network of reciprocal clubs.

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Upcoming Events at The Royal Scots Club

Talks and Lectures

The Underground Lectures: Sex Sells: The Dirty History of Musical Instrument Advertising

6th August 2025

The Royal Scots Club, Edinburgh New Town

Sex sells, or so the saying goes, but when did it start selling musical instruments? Join Dr Sarah Deters for this lecture on 6th August!

Talks and Lectures

The Underground Lectures: Bookshop Theatre: The Literary Roots of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

7th August 2025

The Royal Scots Club, Edinburgh New Town

Come and discover how notoriously bad coffee, book stacks and a Glasgow group were ignitors of today’s Edinburgh Fringe and International Book Festivals.

Talks and Lectures

Letters From Exes

7th August 2025 - 8th August 2025

The Royal Scots Club, Edinburgh New Town

From emails and WhatsApps to handwritten notes, join Not Cricket Productions in exploring the bizarre, heartfelt and hilarious letters of lost love at The Royal Scots Club!

Theatre

The Underground Lectures: Illicit Spirits: How Prohibition Impacted the Scotch Whisky Industry

8th August 2025

The Royal Scots Club, Edinburgh New Town

Step into the world of speakeasies with Siobhan Sellers, whisky expert, as she takes us on a journey through the Prohibition era.

Theatre

Murder At The Speakeasy II

Selected dates between 9th August 2025 - 16th August 2025

The Royal Scots Club, Edinburgh New Town

Not Cricket Production's 2024 sell-out production returns to the Fringe with a brand-new interactive murder mystery event!

Dance

Ceilidh At The Speakeasy

Selected dates between 10th August 2025 - 17th August 2025

The Royal Scots Club, Edinburgh New Town

Join a fun and family-friendly ceilidh, with live and lively traditional Scottish music and dancing, at The Speakeasy in The Royal Scots Club this August!

Talks and Lectures

The Underground Lectures: No Sex Please, We’re Professionals: Career Depictions in Spicy Novels

13th August 2025

The Royal Scots Club, Edinburgh New Town

In this lively and revealing discussion on 13th August, let us dissect how accurately professions are portrayed in romance and erotica .

Talks and Lectures

The Underground Lectures: The Healing Power of Alchemy

14th August 2025

The Royal Scots Club, Edinburgh New Town

This talk given by Daisy Cunynghame on 14th August will explore the history of alchemy, its role in medicine and Scotland’s place in the development of this mystical science!

Talks and Lectures

The Underground Lectures: Trouble in the Tin: Victorian Tinned Foods, Scandal, and Sales-tactics

15th August 2025

The Royal Scots Club, Edinburgh New Town

Join food historian Dr Lindsay Middleton as she explores why the 19th-century reception of tinned foods was tainted by worries about poisoning, foreignness, and taste.

Theatre

Dracula

18th August 2025 - 23rd August 2025

The Royal Scots Club, Edinburgh New Town

Take up Count Dracula’s sinister invitation and experience a production of Liz Lochhead’s take on the classic horror tale by the Edinburgh Makars at the Fringe.

Talks and Lectures

The Underground Lectures: Mary Somerville: a Love for Mathematics, Science and Orange Marmalade

20th August 2025

The Royal Scots Club, Edinburgh New Town

Join historian Ruth Boreham to discover how Mary’s Somerville thirst for knowledge never dimmed, no matter what her age!

Talks and Lectures

The Underground Lectures: Adventures in Banking: The Turbulent Tales of the Original Bank of Scotland Investors

21st August 2025

The Royal Scots Club, Edinburgh New Town

Join Gillian Paterson, Museum Engagement Officer for this talk on The Turbulent Tales of the Original Bank of Scotland Investors at The Royal Scots Club on 21st August!

Talks and Lectures

The Underground Lectures: Sex and the Second World War

22nd August 2025

The Royal Scots Club, Edinburgh New Town

Join Dr Kate Stephenson, Freelance Historian, to find out what really went on in the blackouts of the Second World War and how the war impacted relationships and sexual freedoms during the 1940s.

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