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Glasgow Green and Sport- Part Two
This blog explores how Glasgow Green is arguably the home of football, with it and the surrounding areas being home to many football clubs who changed the Scottish Game into the World Game.
Glasgow Green and Sport- Part One
Glasgow’s oldest park has long been used as a space for leisure, entertainment and public events, but it also has a rich sporting heritage. This blog explores the sporting activities of the early days of the Green, including golf, shinty and cycling.
A Runaway Horse, Shoplifting and a ‘Peace Riot’
The second of our blogs by Morag Cross detailing the loves and lives of those connected to Queen Arcade, focusing on dressmaking and the refurbishment of the mall which took place in the 1870s.
The Glasgow Lock Hospital for Unfortunate Females
Opened in 1845, this new purpose built hospital at 41 Rottenrow was Glasgow’s only provision for women with venereal disease. The women were kept in reformatory conditions and subjected to treatments that were more experimental than effective…
The Sulman Map
“I feel like a bird soaring over the city when I gaze upon Sulman’s map, every nook and cranny with every detail so exact.
I can see where I came from and where I’m at.”
Meet the Man Behind the Map
Thomas Sulman was an English architectural draftsman. He studied at The Working Men’s College between 1854 and 1858, where he was a student of, and later an engraver for, Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
A Strait-laced Sisterhood: Corset Makers and other Businesswomen in 19th century Glasgow
Are there women in Sulman’s aerial perspective of Glasgow?
Yes, they inhabit, own and work in the buildings he shows. The amazing image can been used to show the surroundings where female entrepreneurs and employers, shopkeepers and factory workers, lived, loved and laboured. Blog by Morag Cross.