Glasgow

by Alan Taylor

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  Craig, Carol, The Tears That Made the Clyde: Well-Being in Glasgow (Argyll Publishing, Glendaruel, 2010)

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  Devine, T.M. and Jackson, Gordon, eds., Glasgow: Volume 1: Beginnings to 1830 (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1995)

  Devine, Tom and Logue, Paddy, eds., Being Scottish: Personal Reflections on Scottish Identity Today (Polygon, Edinburgh, 2002)

  Devine, T.M., ed., Recovering Scotland’s Slavery Past: The Caribbean Connection (Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2015)

  Diamond, Harry, Can You Get My Name in the Papers? (Neil Wilson Publishing, Glasgow, 1996)

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  Ferguson, Alex, Managing My Life: My Autobiography (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1999)

  Eyre-Todd, George, ed., The Glasgow Poets: Their Lives and Poems (William Hodge and Company, Glasgow and Edinburgh, 1903)

  Faley, Jean, Up Oor Close: Memories of Domestic Life in Glasgow Tenements, 1910–1945 (White Cockade, in association with Springburn Museum Trust, Wendlebury, Oxon, 1990)

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  Ferguson, Alex, Managing My Life (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1999)

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  Gallacher, Tom, Apprentice (Canongate, Edinburgh, 2003)

  Gibbon, Lewis Grassic and MacDiarmid, Hugh, Scottish Scene: Or the Intelligent Man’s Guide to Albyn (Jarrolds, London, 1934)

  Gifford, Douglas, The Dear Green Place? The Novel in the West of Scotland (Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, 1985)

  The Glasgow Herald Book of Glasgow (Mainstream, Edinburgh, 1989)

  Glasser, Ralph, Growing up in the Gorbals (Chatto & Windus, London, 1986)

  Goring, Rosemary, Scotland: The Autobiography (Viking, London, 2007)

  Grant, Elizabeth, of Rothiemurchus, Memoirs of a Highland Lady (Canongate, Edinburgh, 1992)

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  Hanley, Clifford, Dancing in the Streets (Hutchinson, London, 1958)

  Harper, Marjory, Adventurers & Exiles: The Great Scottish Exodus (Profile Books, London, 2003)

  Herman, Arthur, The Scottish Enlightenment: The Scots’ Invention of the Modern World (Fourth Estate, London, 2001)

  Hind, Archie, The Dear Green Place (Polygon Books, Edinburgh, 1984)

  Honeyman, T.J., Art and Audacity (London, 1971)

  House, Jack, The Heart of Glasgow (Hutchinson, London, 1978)

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  Irvine, Alison, This Road is Red (Luath, Glasgow, 2014)

  Jack, Ian, Before the Oil Ran Out (Vintage, London, 1997)

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  Kelman, James, The Busconductor Hines (Polygon Books, Edinburgh, 1984)

  Kemp, Arnold, The Hollow Drum: Scotland Since the War (Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh, 1993)

  King, Elspeth, The Hidden History of Glasgow’s Women (Mainstream, Edinburgh, 1993)

  Kohli, Hardeep Singh, Indian Takeaway: A Very British Story (Canongate, Edinburgh, 2008)

  Laing, R.D., Wisdom, Madness and Folly: The Making of a Psychiatrist, 1927–57 (Canongate Classics, Edinburgh, 1998)

  Lindsay, Maurice, Thank You for Having Me (Robert Hale, London, 1983)

  Liverani, Mary Rose, The Winter Sparrow: A Glasgow Childhood (Michael Joseph, London, 1976)

  Lockhart, John Gibson, Peter’s Letters to His Kinsfolk (Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, 1977)

  McArthur, A and Long, H. Kingsley, No Mean City (Corgi Books, London, 1986)

  McArthur, Tom and Waddell, Peter, Vision Warrior: The Hidden Achievement of John Logie Baird (Century Hutchinson, London, 1986)

  McCormack, Cathy (with Marian Pallister), The Wee Yellow Butterfly (Argyll Publishing, Glendaruel, 2009)

  MacDiarmid, Hugh, Selected Prose (Carcanet, Manchester, 1992)

  MacDougall, Carl, Painting the Forth Bridge: A Search for Scottish Identity (Aurum Press, London, 2001)

  MacFarlane, Colin, No Mean Glasgow: Revelations of a Gorbals Guy (Mainstream, Edinburgh, 2008)

  MacGill, Patrick, Children of the Dead End: The Autobiography of a Navvy (Herbert Jenkins, London, 1914)

  McGinn, Matt, McGinn of the Calton: The Life and Works of Matt McGinn, 1928–1977 (Glasgow District Libraries, Glasgow, 1987)

  McGonigal, James, Beyond the Last Dragon: A Life of Edwin Morgan (Sandstone Press, Dingwall, 2010)

  McIlvanney, Hugh, McIlvanney on Football (Mainstream, Edinburgh, 1994)

  McIlvanney, William, Laidlaw (Coronet Books, London, 1984)

  McIlvanney, William, The Papers of Tony Veitch (Coronet Books, London, 1983)

  McIlvanney, William, Surviving the Shipwreck (Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh, 1991)

  McLaren,
Moray, The Scots (Penguin, London, 1951)

  MacLean, Colin and Veitch, Kenneth, eds., Scottish Life and Society: A Compendium of Scottish Ethnology – Volume 12: Religion (John Donald, Edinburgh, 2006)

  McLean, Jack, The Bedside Urban Voltaire (Lochar, Moffat, 1990)

  McNaught, Thomas P., The Recollections of a Glasgow Detective Officer (Simpkin, Marshall & Co., London, 1887)

  Maan, Bashir, The New Scots: The Story of Asians in Scotland (John Donald, Edinburgh, 1992)

  Marr, Andrew, The Battle for Scotland (Penguin, London, 1992)

  Martin, David, The Glasgow School of Painting (George Bell & Sons, London, 1897)

  Maver, Irene, Glasgow (Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2000)

  Morton, H.V., In Search of Scotland (Methuen, London, 1929)

  Muir, Edwin, An Autobiography (Canongate, Edinburgh, 1993)

  Muir, Edwin, Scottish Journey (Flamingo, London, 1985)

  Muir, James Hamilton, Glasgow in 1901 (William Hodge and Company, Glasgow and Edinburgh, 1901)

  Munro, Michael, The Patter: A Guide to Current Glasgow Usage (Glasgow District Libraries, Glasgow,1985)

  Munro, Neil, The Brave Days: A Chronicle of the North (Porpoise Books, Edinburgh, 1931)

  Murray, Bill, The Old Firm: Sectarianism, Sport and Society in Scotland (John Donald, Edinburgh, 1984)

  The New Statistical Account of Scotland, Vol VI, Lanark (William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1835)

  Oakley, C.A., The Second City: The Story of Glasgow (Blackie, Glasgow, 1990)

  Osborne, Brian and Armstrong, Ronald, eds., Mungo’s City: A Glasgow Anthology (Birlinn, Edinburgh, 1999)

  Patrick, James, A Glasgow Gang Observed (Eyre Methuen, London, 1973)

  Pennant, Thomas, A Tour in Scotland 1769 (Birlinn, Edinburgh, 2000)

  Peter, Bruce, 100 Years of Glasgow’s Amazing Cinemas (Polygon, Edinburgh, 1996)

  Phelan, Jim, The Name’s Phelan (The Blackstaff Press, Belfast, 1993)

  Phillips, Alastair, Glasgow’s Herald: Two Hundred Years of a Newspaper, 1783–1983 (Richard Drew, Glasgow, 1982)

  Pieri, Joe, The Scots-Italians: Recollections of an Immigrant (Mercat Press, Edinburgh, 2005)

  Pieri, Joe, Tales of the Savoy: Stories from a Glasgow Café (Neil Wilson Publishing, Glasgow, 1990)

  Pritchett, V.S., Build the Ships (HMSO, London, 1946)

  Reid, Jimmy, As I Please (Mainstream, Edinburgh, 1984)

  Reid, R. (‘Senex’), Glasgow Past and Present (Nabu Press, Charleston South Carolina, 2010)

  Reid, R. (‘Senex’), Old Glasgow and Its Environs, Historical and Topographical (Longman, London, 1864)

  Robertson, George Gladstone, Gorbals Doctor (Jarrolds, London, 1970)

  Rosie, George, Curious Scotland: Tales from a Hidden History (Granta Books, London, 2004)

  Roy, Kenneth, ed., The Best of Scotland on Sunday (Carrick Publishing, Ayr, 1990)

  Royle, Trevor, ed., Isn’t All This Bloody: Scottish Writings from the First World War (Birlinn, Edinburgh, 2014)

  Royle, Trevor, ed., Jock Tamson’s Bairns: Essays on a Scottish Childhood (Hamish Hamilton, London, 1977)

  Savage, Hugh, Born Up a Close: Memoirs of a Brigton Boy (Argyll Publishing, Glendaruel, Argyll, 2006)

  Smout, T.C., A History of the Scottish People, 1560 1830 (Collins, London, 1989)

  Smout, T.C., A History of the Scottish People, 1830 1950 (Collins, London, 1989)

  Southey, Robert, Journal of a Tour in Scotland in 1819 (J. Murray, London, 1929)

  Spence, Alan, Its Colours They Are Fine (William Collins Sons & Co Ltd, Glasgow, 1977)

  Spottiswoode, John, The History of the Church of Scotland (Scolar Press, Menston, Yorkshire, 1972)

  Spring, Ian, Phantom Village: The Myth of the New Glasgow (Polygon, Edinburgh, 1990)

  Strang, Dr John, Glasgow and its Clubs (London, 1856)

  Theroux, Paul, The Kingdom By the Sea: A Journey Round the Coast of Great Britain (Penguin Books, London, 1984)

  Tweed, John, Tweed’s Guide to Glasgow and the Clyde (Molendinar Press, Glasgow, 1979)

  Waugh, Evelyn, Sword of Honour (Penguin Books, London, 1999)

  Weir, Molly, Best Foot Forward (Hutchinson & Co, London, 1972)

  Weir, Molly, Shoes Were For Sundays (Hutchinson & Co, London, 1970)

  White, Kenneth, Travels in the Drifting Dawn (Mainstream, Edinburgh, 1989)

  Who Belongs to Glasgow? 200 Years of Migration (Glasgow City Libraries, Glasgow, 1993)

  Whyte, Hamish, ed. Noise and Smoky Breath (Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, 1983)

  Williamson, Elizabeth; Riches, Anne and Higgs, Malcolm, Glasgow: The Buildings of Scotland (Penguin Books in association with the National Trust of Scotland, London, 1990)

  Wordsworth, Dorothy, Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 (David Douglas, Edinburgh, 1894)

  Wormald, Jenny, ed., Scotland: A History (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005)

  Worsdall, Frank, The Tenement (W & R Chambers, Edinburgh, 1979)

  Worsthorne, Peregrine, Tricks of Memory (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1993)

  SOURCES AND PERMISSIONS

  Every effort has been made to trace the rights-holders of material which appears in this book. The editor and publisher will be happy to rectify any omissions and print appropriate acknowledgements in future editions.

  Prologue

  ‘Glasgow Got Its Name’, from Collins Encyclopeadia of Scotland by John and Julia Keay (HarperCollins, London, 1994)

  1597–1700 An Archbishop’s Seat

  ‘Witchcraft’, from History of the Church and State of Scotland by John Spottiswoode (London, 1655)

  ‘A Closet Lined with Iron’, from Travels in Holland, The United provinces, England, Scotland, and Ireland by Sir William Brereton (The Chteham Society, 1844)

  ‘O Glasgow!’ from Skene’s Succinct Survey of the Famous City of Aberdeen by (John Forbes, Aberdeen, 1685)

  1701–1750 Pretending To Be Gentlemen

  ‘A Fishy Tale’, from A Short Account of Scotland by Thomas Morer (Newborough London, 1702)

  ‘Cleanest and Beautifullest City in Britain . . .’, from A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain by Daniel Defoe (London 1724–27)

  ‘Nothing But Good Looks and Fine Clothes’, from The Autobiography of Alexander Carlyle of Inveresk 1722–1805 (TN Foulis, London and Edinburgh, 1910)

  1751–1800 What To Do with Dung

  ‘The Saracen’s Head’, by Robert Tennant, from The Glasgow Courant, 1755

  ‘Best of the Second Rate’, from A Tour in Scotland 1769 by Thomas Pennant (John Monk, Chester, 1771)

  ‘A Mediocrity of Knowledge’, from Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland, by Samuel Johnson (W. Statham and T. Cadell, London, 1775)

  ‘Have You Ever Seen Brentford?’, from The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LLD by James Boswell (Charles Dilly, London, 1785)

  ‘Dung Moving’, from The Glasgow Mercury

  1801–1850 Haunts of Vagrancy

  ‘Glasgow Green’, from Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D.1803 by Dorothy Worsdworth (David Douglas, Edinburgh, 1894)

  ‘Indescribably Underbred’, from Memoirs of a Highland Lady by Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus (Canongate, Edinburgh, 1992)

  ‘The National Jealousy of the English’, from Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott (Constable and Co., Edinburgh, 1817)

  ‘Glasgow Invades Edinburgh’, from Memorials of His Time by Henry Cockburn (T.N. Foulis, Edinburgh & London, 1856)

  ‘The Ritual of Punch-making’, from The Life of Sir Walter Scott by J.G. Lockhart (Robert Cadell, Edinburgh, 1837–39)

  ‘An Invincible Nose’, from Journal of a Tour in Scotland in 1891 by Robert Southey (J. Murray, London, 1929)

  ‘The Rogueries of the Broomielaw’, from Peter’s Letters to His Kinsfolk by J.G. Lockhart (William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1819)

  ‘Molly’s History’, quoted in The Hidden History of Glasgow’s Women by Elspeth King
(Mainstream, Edinburgh, 1993)

  ‘Bread, Beef and Beer’, from Rural Rides by William Cobbett (A&C Black, Edinburgh, 1856)

  ‘Willie Winkie’, from Scottish Nursery Songs and Poems by William Miller (Kerr & Richardson, Glasgow, 1863)

  ‘Cock-fighting’, from The New Statistical Account of Scotland, Volume VI, Lanark (Wm. Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh & London, 1835)

  ‘A Reckoning’, from The New Statistical Account of Scotland, Volume VI, Lanark (Wm. Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh & London, 1835)

  ‘Less wet than Edinburgh’, from Description of the City of Glasgow: Comprising an Account of Its Ancient and Modern History, Its Trade, Manufactures, Commerce, Health and Other Concerns by James Cleland (John Smith and Son, Glasgow, 1840)

  ‘Glasgow Observatory,’ (Thomas de Quincey) quoted in The Opium-eater: A Life of Thomas de Quincey by Grevel Lindop (OUP, Oxford, 1985)

  ‘Wretched, Dissolute, Loathsome and Pestilential’, by Captain Miller, from Reports on the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Scotland, … Presented to both houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842

  1851–1900 City of Merchants

  ‘The Trial of Madeleine Smith’, from The Illustrated London News, 30 June 1857

  ‘A Suburb of the Dead’, from Biographic and Descriptive Sketches of Glasgow Necropolis by George Blair (M. Ogle, Glasgow, 1857)

  ‘Not Waving But Drowning’, from Glasgow Sentinel, 3 March 1860

  ‘The First Football Match’ (Robert Gardner) quoted in Scottish Football: A Pictorial History by Kevin McCarra (Polygon, Edinburgh, 1984)

  ‘A Noble Park’ (John Tweed) from Tweed’s Guide to Glasgow and the Clyde (Molendinar Press, Glasgow, 1973)

  ‘Maryhill Barracks’, from Groome’s Gazetteer, 1876

  ‘School for Cookery’, from The Baillie, 22 March 1876

  ‘Doon the Watter,’ from I Remember by J.J. Bell (The Porpoise Press, Edinburgh, 1832)

  ‘Kennedy Jones’, from The Brave Days: A Chronicle of the North by Neil Munro (Porpoise Books, Edinburgh, 1931)

  ‘Brief Lives’, from (J.B. Russell) from Public Health Administration in Glasgow: A Memorial Volume of the Writings of James Burn Russell (J. MacLehose & Sons, Glasgow, 1905)

  ‘A Vexed Question in Sanitation’, from The Builder, 4 August 1888

  ‘Unlucky with Ships’, from Lying Awake by Catherine Carswell (Secker & Warburg, London, 1950)