AS I wrote recently, in this roughly chronological history of Glasgow I have reached the year 1975, and I am still trying to get out of it. Don’t worry, I still have a lot to write about before I close the series with columns on the year of Glasgow as the City of Culture in 1990. It’s difficult to move on, however, when so much happened in the city at that time.
IN this approximately chronological history of Glasgow I have reached a time that I remember well, namely the mid to late-1970s.
FOR many women in Glasgow, the First World War was utterly transformative. Many thousands would lose husbands, fathers, sons and brothers in battle, with all the consequences such losses entail.
AS promised, I now return to the industry that more than any other made Glasgow a global name – shipbuilding.
THE 1911 Exhibition has fascinating resonances and contrasts with the Scottish history we tell today.
NEXT year will see the centenary of the establishment of the Willow Tea Rooms in Sauchiehall Street, one of the best and most popular of all the works by the great Glaswegian architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
AS Glasgow neared the end of the 19th century, the city was making progress towards the point where it really could claim to be the Second City of the Empire.
In last week’s column I showed how the sheer number of Irish immigrants into Glasgow in the middle of the 19th century began to comprehensively change the city and its surrounding towns.
IN the 1840s, Glasgow and much of Scotland was caught up in the great railway mania, and as we have seen, the big leap forward was the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway authorised by Parliament on July 4, 1838, which brought Glasgow’s first major terminus, Queen Street station which opened in 1842.
AS we shall see later in this series, in many senses Glasgow in the late Victorian era and early 20th century could well have laid claim to the title of rail capital of the world.
