History and Non-Fiction from Glasgow
History and Biography Books from Glasgow and the Clyde Valley area
- Along Great Western Road: An Illustrated History Of Glasgow's West End
This text tells the facsinating story of the famed West End of Glasgow. The book includes more than 300 photographs and charts the architectural and social development of the West End from the earliest times to the present - Bygone Govan
George Rountree spent much of his childhood in the 1930s and 1940s in Govan. The photographs in this book cover everything from the area's cinemas to football teams, ferries, schools and hospitals. The historically detailed captions are combined with personal recollections. - Bygone Maryhill
With the barracks, the Forth and Clyde Canal, an extensive railway network and a variety of industries jostling for space alongside streets of tenements, Maryhill has a varied and interesting history, many aspects of which are touched on in this book. - Bygone Pollokshaws
Some of the locations featured in this title include the Round Toll, Old Coach Inn, Lilybank Place and the Royal George building. There are also photographs of a birthday celebration in the grounds of Pollok House and staff at the Victoria Pottery. - Clyde Coast Picture Palaces
Cinema architecture has traditionally ranged from the grandiose to the distinctly basic and the cinemas along the Clyde and Ayrshire coasts represented these extremes and everything in between. Towns featured include Renfrew, Ardrossan and Campbeltown. - Controversy On The Clyde: Archaeologists, Fakes And Forgers
The Dumbuck crannog excavations in 1898-9, caused one of the longest-running and most vitriolic controversies in Scottish archaeology. The excavation was recorded in detail by William Donnelly. This book tells the story of the excavations, the ensuing controversy and the enduring mystery of the Dumbuck crannog. - Glasgow: A City At War
Exploring the impact of the First and Second World Wars on the city of Glasgow, its people and its industries, this book also looks at the new people who were brought to the city, such as servicemen and women from occupied Europe and from across the Atlantic. - Glasgow And Dunbartonshire's Lost Railways
Glasgow is unique among British cities in that it has the largest rail network outside London. At one time, it had four very grand stations, two of which have since disappeared. The years up to the 1960s, the heyday of the city's railways, are captured in this book. - Glasgow By The Way, But
A contemporary series of essays examining different aspects of Glasgow, this book looks at the city in a historical and cultural context, revealing a unique, amusing and sometimes critical perspective of Cairney's beloved hometown. - Glasgow: Fabric Of A City
In this portrait of a city, Glaswegian writer and poet Maurice Lindsay draws together the many threads of Glasgow's rich inheritance to create an evocative picture of a city that was once the Second City of the Empire.
