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New podcast episode! Listen in as Russell Napier discusses his Practical History of Financial Markets. spreaker.com/episode/ep-53-…

How the Mafia shaped LGBTQ+ nightlife - was this genuine protection, or a quasi-protection racket targeting a community the state was actively persecuting? asks @AttitudeMag Find out at Weekend of Mistakes 2026, tix: bit.ly/3PpAeaL bit.ly/4lUrjup @EdinburghLoM

Calling all students with curious minds! Come and join us in the Library of Mistakes – our financial history centre in the heart of Edinburgh. It's all happening tomorrow! All welcome – please RSVP.

Wrapping up the #SmithConversations at the @EdinburghLoM with a post on why "The Wealth of Nations" became so influential, together with a synopsis of the conversations. A great celebration of a very great book. Hopefully more to come later in the year. @economyofhope/note/c-228646757?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=1vva35" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@economyofhope…

@ron_usher We’d love to welcome you here Ron!

As I approach the end of my time as a Ponzi scheme inspector, this is a place I must visit in Edinburgh: The Library of Mistakes: libraryofmistakes.com @EdinburghLoM For all that are curious and ask "what could go wrong?"

Our Keeper, Russell Napier, took a wander back in time yesterday when he visited the Bourse in Bruges. The 13th century building, originally established as a hostelry, developed into the world's first stock exchange. Read more about in The Brussels Times. brusselstimes.com/59675/how-belg…

Are you local to Hay Castle? Our single session tickets are just £10 for those who want to turn the lessons from the past into learnings for today. 📍 20th - 22nd March | Hay Castle 🎟️ Book tickets on our website: weekendofmistakes.org

Single session tickets are now on sale for those who want to pick and choose the conversations that intrigue them the most. Join us for one idea, one debate, one brilliant hour. 📍 20th - 22nd March | @haycastle 🎟️ Book tickets on our website: weekendofmistakes.org

Coming to the Library on 29 April! @christianaidsco

Last chance to get your place at our acclaimed in-person Practical History of Financial Markets course AT 2025 PRICES. Book this week! mailchi.mp/sifeco/what-if…

Have you got your ticket? There’s just one month to go until the Weekend of Mistakes 2026. Back for a third year – this is an unmissable event for the economically curious. 📍 20th - 22nd March | @haycastle 🎟️Tickets: weekendofmistakes.org

Next month, I'm going to be speaking at the Weekend of Mistakes at Hay Castle on debt forgiveness, a topic I've worked on now for over a decade. It's the 20th–22nd of March at Hay Castle @haycastle @EdinburghLoM

**New podcast episode** Listen to Tom Levitt, former MP and author of The Business of History, in an entertaining discussion with Russell Napier about famous names such as WH Smith, Boots and Cadbury and what we can learn from Britain's business heritage. spreaker.com/episode/ep-51-…

@RNerpawar @NileshShah68 @chokhani_manish Thanks Ravindra! Hope you enjoy the book.

I thank you everyone from Flame Management like @NileshShah68 @chokhani_manish # Vallabh Sir and many others for their contribution to society..Also @EdinburghLoM for being this books accessable to Pune, India. My first book from the library is Anatomy of Bear by #Russel Napier

Today, I visited @FLAMEUniversity and took the membership of #libraryofmistakes inaugurated by #RusselNapier Over all process at @FLAMEUniversity very good and seamless..they have huge collection of books.I thank you Flame Management to bring this treasure to common public

New podcast episode! Hear all about The Weekend of Mistakes - taking place in March! spreaker.com/episode/ep-50-…

No one has laid this out better than Russell Napier at @EdinburghLoM. Reading his @TSGResearch newsletters over the years has been like being handed a roadmap to the future.

The catalogue system we use provides us with some additional statistics. For instance, the height of the collection, if piled up, would be 217.5 metres (or 713 feet 8 inches) tall, and would weigh the equivalent of 0.7 of an elephant, with a value of $105,324,092 in gold. 2/2

We've reached the huge milestone of 5,000 titles in our catalogue with this year's 'The World Ahead' from @TheEconomist. Our collection has grown from 2,300 when we first opened in March 2014 and we've upgraded to a more user-friendly catalogue: lnkd.in/egQiaKiv 1/2

**New Podcast Episode** Hear economist @GeorgeSelgin discuss his book ‘Good Money’. George’s colourful and impeccably researched tales exploring what served as money more than two hundred years ago offer wonderful insights today. spreaker.com/episode/ep-49-…

If you can make it to Edinburgh this Wednesday, do join us for a mince pie and some mulled wine at the Library of Mistakes for our Christmas movie. This year we have a true classic of the genre, the wonderful Trading Places. linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…