Glasgow A History

Michael Meighan

• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781445618654
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: History

Located on the banks of the River Clyde, Glasgow was once the second city of the Empire, producing ships, locomotives, cars and heavy engineering for the world. Its docks would see huge numbers of exports. But Glasgow is much more than this; it is a religious centre, with one of Scotland's earliest churches, a centre for the Virginia tobacco trade, a home of designers and architects, inventors and entrepreneurs, artists and industrialists. It is that variety of talent, and the melting pot of immigrants and other Scots, sucked into the city at its peak that saw the phenomenal growth in wealth and culture that has left the city with a legacy of fine Victorian architecture, and it is its decline that has seen a legacy of remote council estates. However, Glasgow has risen again, and is truly a vibrant city, thanks to its self-promotion from Dr Michael Kelly's 'Glasgow's Miles Better' campaign to its use in gritty film and TV productions, as well as its ability to look at the past and preserve the best of the old, while producing some of the most startling modern architecture outside of London. Michael Meighan tells the story of Glasgow, from its drumlin days in the Ice Age to the growth of the Church, its industries, its people and the phenomenal expansion of the Victorian era and the legacy it has left us.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Acknowledgements
• Image credits
• Introduction
• The Growth of Glasgow
• The Railway Age
• The Growth of Industrial Glasgow
• The Development of the City
• Education in Glasgow – ‘If I Had Your Chances’
• Health and Wellbeing
• Music Hall, Theatre and Cinema
• Radio and Television – a New Media Era for Glasgow
• ‘To Play for the Sake of Playing’ – The Story of Sport in Glasgow
• Glasgow at War
• Politics, Radicals and Red Clydeside
• Religious Scotland
• Cultural Poverty and Culture
• Picture Section