Like the exhibitions themselves, this profusely illustrated book is both instructive and entertaining, covering a vast range of topics-art and industry, ships and machinery, architecture, Empire, women, royalty, and tourism-not to mention woollen underwear and self-pouring teapots. The five great show chart in a particularly accessible way a century of profound social and economic change, from the Victorian self-confidence of the Second City of Empire, to the Scottish nationalism of 1911, to a brief glimpse of modern utopia in 1938, and finally the regeneration of derelict dockland for 1988's Garden Festival.

Glasgow's Great Exhibitions: 1888, 1901, 1911, 1938, 1988

Perilla Kinchin

Arts & Photography

White Cockade Publishing

Glasgow invented tea rooms, and they became a distinctive and much-loved feature of its social and business life. The legendary Miss Cranston brought them international fame through her penchant for the avant garde Glasgow Style that Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed for her with dazzling inventiveness over two decades. This book sets the Mackintosh tea rooms in their distinctive urban context, exploring changing social habits over a century. Packed with fascinating detail, Tea and Taste will stir nostalgic memories for those who still remember Glasgow's very special tea rooms.

Tea and Taste: The Glasgow Tea Rooms, 1875-1975

KINCHIN, Perilla

Glasgow invented tea rooms, and they became a distinctive and much-loved feature of its social and business life. The legendary Miss Cranston brought them international fame through her penchant for the avant garde Glasgow Style that Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed for her with dazzling inventiveness over two decades. This book sets the Mackintosh tea rooms in their distinctive urban context, exploring changing social habits over a century. Packed with fascinating detail, Tea and Taste will stir nostalgic memories for those who still remember Glasgow's very special tea rooms.

Up Oor Close: Memories of Domestic Life in Glasgow Tenements, 1910-1945

Up oor close: Memories of domestic life in Glasgow tenements, 1910-1945

History

Jean Faley

Europe

This book dispels the image of slums and destitution that clings to the Glasgow tenement. Working-class home life is explored through the recollections of people who grew up in these cramped one and two roomed houses. Narratives full of vitality and detail record the routines and rituals of previously disregarded lives, covering everything from shopping and housework to childbirth and death. Though the tenements were by today's standards unfit to live in, there are important lessons here about the kinds of housing that enable close-knit communities to flourish.

This is an authoritative study of a designer and architect of outstanding diversity, individuality, and sophistication, too long overshadowed by his famous contemporary Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Born into the thick of Glasgow's artistic avant garde, Walton was influenced by both Whistler and William Morris when he established his own decorating company in 1888. He designed in almost every area of decorative art, specialising in harmoniously integrated interiors which were internationally admired. He was a pioneer of the distinctive Glasgow Style.

George Walton: Designer and Architect

Moon, Karen

Edward Barnsley and His Workshop: Arts and Crafts in the Twentieth Century

Carruthers, Annette

Born blind in one eye but never accepting a handicap, Peter Richards chose a hard life as a gas main layer on the south coast of Britain. This is Peter's story in his words. It is a compelling story of a working man whose words show the complexities of an ordinary person. His darker side is balanced by humor, wit, and a way with words that goes with sharp intelligence. Interwoven with this fascinating narrative of work is Peter's articulate account of his personal life-of marriage and raising children in cramped housing, insecurity, bread-winning, friendship, love, and fighting, of his passions for sea fishing and gardening.

Thirty-Three Years in the Trenches

Biographies & Memoirs

Richards, Peter

Osmond, Nick

Community & Culture

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Glasgow's Great Exhibitions: 1888, 1901, 1911, 1938, 1988

Tea and Taste: The Glasgow Tea Rooms, 1875-1975

Tea and Taste: The Glasgow Tea Rooms, 1875-1975

Up oor close: Memories of domestic life in Glasgow tenements, 1910-1945

Up Oor Close: Memories of Domestic Life in Glasgow Tenements, 1910-1945

George Walton: Designer and Architect

Edward Barnsley and His Workshop: Arts and Crafts in the Twentieth Century

Thirty-Three Years in the Trenches