Glasgow 1919

Glasgow 1919
Author: Kenny MacAskill
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2019-01-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1785904582

The arrival of January 1919 sees Europe in turmoil, with revolution breaking out across the Continent. Glasgow's industrial community has been steeled by radicalism throughout the Great War, and as the spectre of mass unemployment and poverty threatens, a cadre of shop stewards, supported by political activists, is ready to strike for a forty-hour week. They face a state nervous of their strength and anxious about the wider consequences of their action, with the War Cabinet monitoring the situation closely. On 31 January, now known as Bloody Friday, tensions came to a head when 60,000 demonstrators clashed with police in George Square. The Scottish Bolshevik Revolution (so termed by the Secretary of State for Scotland) erupted, with tanks and 10,000 soldiers immediately despatched to the city to enforce order. The strike may have failed, but 1922 saw the arrival of Red Clydeside, as the Independent Labour Party swept the board in the general election. Now, 100 years on, Kenny MacAskill separates fact from fiction in this adept social history to explore how the events of that fateful day transpired and why their legacy still endures. Drawing on original material from speeches and newspaper reports of the time, MacAskill also paints a vivid picture of the solidarity amongst the working class in a rousing testimony to Glasgow's long radical history.

Glasgow

Glasgow
Author: Thomas Martin Devine
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 456
Release: 1995
Genre: Glasgow (Scotland)
ISBN: 9780719036910

Glasgow

Glasgow
Author: Irene Maver
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2019-08-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1474470793

This new and extensively illustrated history explores the reality behind stereotypical views of Glasgow.

Agricultural Statistics

Agricultural Statistics
Author: Great Britain. Dept. of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1046
Release: 1914
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN:

Transactions of the Chartered Accountants Students' Societies of Edinburgh and Glasgow

Transactions of the Chartered Accountants Students' Societies of Edinburgh and Glasgow
Author: Thomas A. Lee
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2020-09-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000167844

This book, first published in 1984, is concerned mainly with papers published in various Transactions of the Chartered Accountants Students’ Societies of Edinburgh and Glasgow. Many of these lectures were given by eminent accountants from throughout the UK, and soon the activities of the Societies extended beyond lectures. The financial reporting and auditing topics are the major concern of this text – they represent the one category of lectures which have a continuing and international relevance and interest.

Glasgow

Glasgow
Author: Michael Fry
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 603
Release: 2017-08-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1784975818

Beloved, reviled – and not only by Glaswegians – Glasgow isn't just the Industrial Revolution nor the Victorian slums. Founded in the sixth century, its forebears pushed back the Romans. The roof of its cathedral, founded in the twelfth century, survived the Reformation. Its fifteenth-century university welcomed Adam Smith and the Enlightenment. It prospered from sugar, tobacco, cotton and slavery in the eighteenth century, and saw the rise of the Red Clydesiders in the twentieth. Glasgow's not just a city, it's an urban civilization in itself, unique and fruitful. Its denizens have seen the city rise and fall, they have survived bombs and demolitions, and somehow kept their humour intact. Now these people and this city play a pivotal role in Scotland's future, and in the future of the UK. It's time for a book that tells the story in all its complexity.