Author: Michael Meighan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781445618869
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A new history of Glasgow tracing the growth of the city from prehistoric days to its rise as one of the Great Victorian cities.
Glasgow
Author: Michael Meighan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781445618869
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A new history of Glasgow tracing the growth of the city from prehistoric days to its rise as one of the Great Victorian cities.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781445618869
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A new history of Glasgow tracing the growth of the city from prehistoric days to its rise as one of the Great Victorian cities.
Early Glasgow
Author: Sir James David Marwick
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Glasgow (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Glasgow (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Glasgow
Author: Michael Fry
Publisher:
ISBN: 1784975826
Category : Glasgow (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A one volume history of the great city of Glasgow from the Celts to Celtic by the controversial Scottish historian and biographer of Edinburgh.
Publisher:
ISBN: 1784975826
Category : Glasgow (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A one volume history of the great city of Glasgow from the Celts to Celtic by the controversial Scottish historian and biographer of Edinburgh.
Glasgow: The Autobiography
Author: Alan Taylor
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 0857909185
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Glasgow: The Autobiography tells the story of the fabled, former Second City of the British Empire from its origins as a bucolic village on the rivers Kelvin and Clyde, through the tumult of the Industrial Revolution to the third millennium. Including extracts from an astonishing array of contributors from Daniel Defoe, Dorothy Wordsworth and Dr Johnson to Evelyn Waugh and Dirk Bogarde, it also features the writing of bred-in-thebone Glaswegians such as Alasdair Gray, Liz Lochhead, James Kelman and 2020 Booker prize-winner Douglas Stuart. The result is a varied and vivid portrait of one of the world's great cities in all its grime and glory – a place which is at once infuriating, inspiring, raucous, humourful and never, ever dull.
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 0857909185
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Glasgow: The Autobiography tells the story of the fabled, former Second City of the British Empire from its origins as a bucolic village on the rivers Kelvin and Clyde, through the tumult of the Industrial Revolution to the third millennium. Including extracts from an astonishing array of contributors from Daniel Defoe, Dorothy Wordsworth and Dr Johnson to Evelyn Waugh and Dirk Bogarde, it also features the writing of bred-in-thebone Glaswegians such as Alasdair Gray, Liz Lochhead, James Kelman and 2020 Booker prize-winner Douglas Stuart. The result is a varied and vivid portrait of one of the world's great cities in all its grime and glory – a place which is at once infuriating, inspiring, raucous, humourful and never, ever dull.
University of Glasgow, Old and New
Author: University of Glasgow
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Glasgow and its Clubs
Author: John Strang
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375166540
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375166540
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.
Dear Green Sounds
Author: Kate Molleson
Publisher: Geddes & Grosset, Limited
ISBN: 9781849341936
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher: Geddes & Grosset, Limited
ISBN: 9781849341936
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Hidden History of Glasgow's Women
Author: Elspeth King
Publisher: Mainstream Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This book looks at aspects of Glasgow history which have hitherto been ignored or overlooked by most historians - the history of women in the city. Existing histories are the histories of the men who made Glasgow great: the inventors, industrialists, shipbuilders, philosophers and men of medicine. Although every schoolchild knows the legends of St Mungo, no one knows the legend of his mother St Thenew. The strong machismo culture of the west of Scotland has all but obliterated the contribution of women. St Thenew is actually Scotland's first recorded rape victim, battered woman and unmarried mother. From the time of her death in the seventh century until the present day, there is a discernable trail of oppression and violence against women. At the same time there is a history of strong and sustained resistance to persecution, achievement in the face of adversity and moral triumph in the teeth of injustice. This work deals with women, religon and the Reformation, social and political status, the fight for equal rights and the history of the Suffragettes. Because of the nature of the sources, more space is given to women who stood up and stood out - the 16th century "orray woemen" whom the town council could not control, the revolutionary Owenites and those brave women who threw bombs, burned down big houses, and went on hunger strike.
Publisher: Mainstream Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This book looks at aspects of Glasgow history which have hitherto been ignored or overlooked by most historians - the history of women in the city. Existing histories are the histories of the men who made Glasgow great: the inventors, industrialists, shipbuilders, philosophers and men of medicine. Although every schoolchild knows the legends of St Mungo, no one knows the legend of his mother St Thenew. The strong machismo culture of the west of Scotland has all but obliterated the contribution of women. St Thenew is actually Scotland's first recorded rape victim, battered woman and unmarried mother. From the time of her death in the seventh century until the present day, there is a discernable trail of oppression and violence against women. At the same time there is a history of strong and sustained resistance to persecution, achievement in the face of adversity and moral triumph in the teeth of injustice. This work deals with women, religon and the Reformation, social and political status, the fight for equal rights and the history of the Suffragettes. Because of the nature of the sources, more space is given to women who stood up and stood out - the 16th century "orray woemen" whom the town council could not control, the revolutionary Owenites and those brave women who threw bombs, burned down big houses, and went on hunger strike.
The Cultural Memory of Georgian Glasgow
Author: Craig Lamont
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781474443272
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The first interdisciplinary exploration of eighteenth-century Glasgow
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781474443272
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The first interdisciplinary exploration of eighteenth-century Glasgow
Glasgow
Author: Lynn Abrams
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429848412
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
In the wake of an unparalleled housing crisis at the end of the Second World War, Glasgow Corporation rehoused the tens of thousands of private tenants who were living in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions in unimproved Victorian slums. Adopting the designs, the materials and the technologies of modernity they built into the sky, developing high-rise estates on vacant sites within the city and on its periphery. This book uniquely focuses on the people's experience of this modern approach to housing, drawing on oral histories and archival materials to reflect on the long-term narrative and significance of high-rise homes in the cityscape. It positions them as places of identity formation, intimacy and well-being. With discussions on interior design and consumption, gender roles, children, the elderly, privacy, isolation, social networks and nuisance, Glasgow examines the connections between architectural design, planning decisions and housing experience to offer some timely and prescient observations on the success and failure of this very modern housing solution at a moment when high flats are simultaneously denigrated in the social housing sector while being built afresh in the private sector. Glasgow is aimed at an academic readership, including postgraduate students, scholars and researchers. It will be of interest to social, cultural and urban historians particularly interested in the United Kingdom.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429848412
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
In the wake of an unparalleled housing crisis at the end of the Second World War, Glasgow Corporation rehoused the tens of thousands of private tenants who were living in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions in unimproved Victorian slums. Adopting the designs, the materials and the technologies of modernity they built into the sky, developing high-rise estates on vacant sites within the city and on its periphery. This book uniquely focuses on the people's experience of this modern approach to housing, drawing on oral histories and archival materials to reflect on the long-term narrative and significance of high-rise homes in the cityscape. It positions them as places of identity formation, intimacy and well-being. With discussions on interior design and consumption, gender roles, children, the elderly, privacy, isolation, social networks and nuisance, Glasgow examines the connections between architectural design, planning decisions and housing experience to offer some timely and prescient observations on the success and failure of this very modern housing solution at a moment when high flats are simultaneously denigrated in the social housing sector while being built afresh in the private sector. Glasgow is aimed at an academic readership, including postgraduate students, scholars and researchers. It will be of interest to social, cultural and urban historians particularly interested in the United Kingdom.