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| Author | : Colin MacFarlane |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 181 |
| Release | : 2011-07-22 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1780571682 |
Colin MacFarlane was born in the Gorbals in the 1950s, 20 years after the publication of No Mean City, the classic novel about pre-war life in what was once Glasgow's most deprived district. He lived in the same street as its fictional 'razor king', Johnnie Stark, and subsequently realised that a lot of the old characters represented in the book were still around as late as the 1960s. Men still wore bunnets and played pitch and toss; women still treated the steamie as their social club. The razor gangs were running amok once again, and filth, violence, crime, rats, poverty and drunkenness abounded, just like they did in No Mean City. MacFarlane witnessed the last days of the old Gorbals as a major regeneration programme, begun in 1961, was implemented, and, as a street boy, he had a unique insight into a once great community in rapid decline. In this engrossing book, MacFarlane reveals what it was really like to live in the old Gorbals.
| Author | : Edward H. Chisnall |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : Glasgow (Scotland) |
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| Author | : John Burrowes |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 233 |
| Release | : 2011-10-14 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1780573383 |
Few cities in the world abound with so many extraordinary stories as Glasgow. The city has been the silent witness to some of the most significant events of the past century, from major triumphs to cataclysmic calamities, and the best of these anecdotes are compiled here to form this unique collection. Amongst the notable events revisited are the launching of the Queen Mary, which captivated the city's inhabitants in 1934, the victorious 16-month work-in campaign by the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders in the early 1970s, the Ibrox disaster of 1971 and the plague that gripped the Gorbals in 1900. Some of Glasgow's most successful people are also covered, including Clydeside revolutionary John Maclean, founder of the Barras Maggie McIver and the inimitable Billy Connolly, whose humour and colourful personality are synonymous with the city. From the Battle of George Square to the bravery of the Glasgow people during the Blitz, Great Glasgow Stories provides an all-encompassing view of the city throughout the eras.
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| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Glasgow (Scotland) |
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"As told by some of Scotland's best writers, and illustrated with 15,000 images from the collections of the city's great libraries, museums and universities. From fine art to fitba', Provosts to peever, you'll find it all here. TheGlasgowStory tells the story of Glasgow in words and pictures. The essays have been specially commissioned from some of the best-known writers on the city and its history and the images come from the archives of the city's museums, galleries and private collections."--Home page.
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| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Glasgow (Scotland) |
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TheGlasgowStory tells the story of Glasgow in words and pictures, told by some of Scotland's best writers, and illustrated with thousands of images from the collections of the city's world-famous libraries, museums and universities. From football to fashions, Auchenshuggle to Yoker, you'll find it all here.
| Author | : John M'Ure |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 408 |
| Release | : 1830 |
| Genre | : Glasgow (Scotland) |
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| Author | : Alan Taylor |
| Publisher | : Birlinn Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 406 |
| Release | : 2016-09-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0857909185 |
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.
| Author | : Michael Meighan |
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| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781445618869 |
A new history of Glasgow tracing the growth of the city from prehistoric days to its rise as one of the Great Victorian cities.
| Author | : Ellie Harrison |
| Publisher | : Luath Press Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 437 |
| Release | : 2019-11-01 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1912387646 |
How would your career, social life, family ties, carbon footprint and mental health be affected if you could not leave the city where you live? Artist Ellie Harrison sparked a fast-and-furious debate about class, capitalism, art, education and much more, when news of her year-long project The Glasgow Effect went viral at the start of 2016. Named after the term used to describe Glasgow's mysteriously poor public health and funded to the tune of £15,000 by Creative Scotland, this controversial 'durational performance' centred on a simple proposition – that the artist would refuse to travel beyond Glasgow's city limits, or use any vehicles except her bike, for a whole calendar year.
| Author | : Katharine McGee |
| Publisher | : Random House Books for Young Readers |
| Total Pages | : 400 |
| Release | : 2022-05-31 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0593429729 |
The third book in the New York Times bestselling American Royals series is here, and a meeting of monarchs will test everyone's loyalty to the crown…and their own hearts. Beatrice is queen, and for the American royal family, everything is about to change. Relationships will be tested. Princess Samantha is in love with Lord Marshall Davis—but the more serious they get, the more complicated things become. Is Sam destined to repeat her string of broken relationships…and this time will the broken heart be her own? Strangers will become friends. Beatrice is representing America at the greatest convocation of kings and queens in the world. When she meets a glamorous foreign princess, she gets drawn into the inner circle…but at what cost? And rivals will become allies. Nina and Daphne have spent years competing for Prince Jefferson. Now they have something in common: they both want to take down manipulative Lady Gabriella Madison. Can these enemies join forces, or will old rivalries stand in the way?
