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Scotland's Lost Industries
Michael Meighan takes us on a journey into a time when Scotland, despite its small size, produced the best of everything, from stone to steel and rubber tyres to motor cars
Glasgow A History
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 Smells
'There was nowhere the smell enveloped you as it did at Glasgow Cross. At that interchange of roads and cultures, the smells came in great swathes... if you had your eyes closed you could tell almost exactly where you were.' For Michael Meighan, all the most vivid boyhood memories are inseparably mingled with the potent scents of Glasgow's streets. Through heady description of each of these odours, Michael returns to the city where he grew up in the 1950s and '60s, revisiting the people and places he knew as a child. Beginning in the dimly-lit rooms of Davy Ireland's tobacconist ship, amongst acrid smoke and the aroma of freshly printed news, travelling via the Glasgow tram, reeking of leather and electricity, and along the pungent docks and fish market, the book winds its way through the city. Seen through the eyes of a child and illustrated with original sketches and archive photographs, the book offers a unique perspective on all the most famous locations in Glasgow that will captivate anyone who knows the city.
Glasgow Smells Better
Comparing the Glasgow of the 70s and 80s with the Glasgow of today - looking at its culture, its humour, the rise and fall of its heavy industry and the hopes for its future.
Glasgow with a Flourish
A look in to the people who have contributed to Glasgow throughout history, in turn making it flourish.
A-Z of Glasgow
Explore the fascinating history of Glasgow in this fully illustrated A-Z guide to the city's people and places.
Glasgow: A Transport History
A portrait of Glasgow's public transport history from the nineteenth century through to the present day.
Glasgow: The Autobiography
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.
Awakening
'You'll be moved by the brave women in Awakening' Malala Yousafzai 'Awakening goes where no book has gone before. Inspiring, insightful, profoundly moving' Hillary Rodham Clinton All over the world, #MeToo inspired generations of women to fight in new ways for their rights. In Brazil, women run for office at the risk of intimidation and murder. In China, activists drown out internet censors and defy arrests. In Egypt, the president calls protestors terrorists. In Tunisia, activists bring down a predatory government minister. In Nigeria, the movement unites Muslim and Christian survivors. In Pakistan, actresses confront accused assailants in court. In Sweden, the movement rocks citizens to their core. Awakening reveals the true scope of the greatest global reckoning on women's rights in history.
Up Oor Close
If Glasgow tenements summon up images of slums and destitution, this book gives a new and fascinating perspective on life in the cramped one and two room houses inhabited by the majority of Glasgow families before World War II. Though the lives recorded here were in today's materialistic terms severly deprived, the memories are warm and rich. The communal close or hallway and stairwell, was a focus for the neighbourliness which softened harsh conditions.
