Our City Chambers digital tour
Explore the City Chambers with our new digital tour!
Mapping Where are the Women onto the Knight Map of Glasgow, with author Sara Sheridan
Step into a captivating journey that intertwines the past and the present as Glasgow City Heritage Trust proudly presents an exclusive collaboration with acclaimed author Sara Sheridan. Join us as the pages of her book come alive on the contemporary canvas of the Trust’s Knight Map of the city.
Case Study: Barras100
| Address: | Gallowgate, Glasgow |
| Type of project: | Outreach / Education project |
| Grantee: | Articulate Cultural Trust |
| GCHT Grant offered: | £9,500 |
Series 2 Episode 8: Women Make History, with Gabrielle Macbeth & Anabel Marsh from Glasgow Women’s Library
Niall Murphy: Hello, everyone. I’m Niall Murphy, and welcome to If Glasgow’s Walls Could Talk, a podcast by Glasgow City Heritage Trust about the stories and relationships between historic buildings and people in Glasgow. Now, if you follow me on Twitter, you will know how much I enjoy walking around Glasgow. When you know where […]
Ghost Signs of Glasgow blog: J Davidson & Co- A Short Ghost Sign with a Long History, by Billy Cowan
Follow the journey of J. Davidson & Co., Auctioneers, through many locations in Glasgow city centre to 9 Bath St, where the only trace left is a small ghost sign.
Glasgow’s Top Twelve Unmemorialised Victorian and Edwardian Women
In this guest blog, author Sara Sheridan gives us a rundown of Glasgow’s Top Twelve Unmemorialised Victorian and Edwardian women. Glasgow is great at claiming people as its own- so Sara has chosen women who contributed to the life of the city, who lived there but weren’t necessarily born there. That’s Glasgow.
A whirlwind history of the Glasgow Athenaeum since its establishment
What links Charles Dickens, women’s rights activists, dressmaking and the Glasgow Chess Club? No, this isn’t a bad Christmas cracker joke but an important piece of Glasgow history. The Glasgow Athenaeum, now The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, has played an important role in helping to shape Glasgow’s cultural training and commercial output. Read more about its history in this blog by Dr. Karen Mailley-Watt.
Tenements: A home for the middle classes too
Think tenements were just for the working classes? Then think again! In this guest blog Rachel Campbell from the Tenement House highlights how some tenements were built with the middle classes in mind, complete with ‘all mod cons’ including full indoor bathrooms with running hot water.
A roomful of radicals? The Glasgow Society of Lady Artists
5 Blythswood Square – a blonde sandstone townhouse – now home to office workers, computers and time-consuming board meetings, contains within its walls a radical history not many Glaswegians, never mind many Scots, acknowledge…
Glasgow’s Square Mile of Murder
Between 1857 and 1908, four of Scotland’s most notorious murders took place in Glasgow, in an area of one square mile. This blog explores the stories of these murders, including the human crocodile and the first use of forensic photography in Scottish policing.