In this fully illustrated talk, Map Curator Chris Fleet looks at various other things on maps that might never have been really out there, as well as how maps lie, distort the truth and miss things out. How far should we trust the map, and is this a good idea? To access this post, you must purchase Become a Friend or Become a Fellow. The post Video Recording: Maps, Myths & Misrepresentations appeared first on Glasgow City Heritage Trust ..read more

Join GCHT and Dr Nina Baker to look at what a particular street corner in the original heart of Glasgow tells us about the lives of the women who lived, worked and walked around it. Inspired by the redevelopment of a site near the corner of the High Street and Duke Street some years ago, Dr Baker has been investigating the history of this block and the range of buildings and uses it has had over the years, from manufacturing, housing, to commerce and social gatherings. To access this post, you must purchase Become a Friend or Become a Fellow. The post Video Recording: From Brides to The Bridew ..read more

John Moore discusses Glasgow: Mapping the City, which explores how our amazing city has changed over the last 500 years. John’s beautifully illustrated book of the same name, published in 2015, features 80 specially selected maps, each offering a unique insight into the political, economic and social history of Glasgow. As the librarian of the University of Glasgow for nearly 38 years, Mr Moore was well acquainted with the city. To access this post, you must purchase Become a Friend or Become a Fellow. The post Recorded Talk: Mapping the City with John Moore appeared first on Glasgow City Heri ..read more

George Square – the heart of Glasgow and central to its identity but currently a place of intense social debate – it was ever thus… So, how did the square come into being, how has it evolved over three centuries, is there a pattern behind the locations of the monuments and why were their subjects selected for immortalisation in bronze? In this illustrated talk, Niall Murphy of Glasgow City Heritage Trust explains the background to the Square. To access this post, you must purchase Become a Friend or Become a Fellow. The post Recorded Talk: The Evolution of George Square with Niall Murphy appea ..read more

Thomas Sulman’s Bird’s Eye View of Glasgow (1864)is perhaps the most famous of all such views of British cities. The splendid, panoramic detail underlines Victorian Glasgow remained both commercial and industrial city: steam and sail ships sit on the Clyde at the Broomielaw, whilst the smog from new chemical industries compelled the affluent ranks to decant from the old ‘Merchant City’ to newer residences in the leafy west end. However, one of the major forces in Glasgow and Scotland’s shift from commerce to industry – transatlantic slavery – remains hidden in plain sight. To access this post ..read more

The photographer Thomas Annan (1829-1887) established his photographic business in Glasgow in 1857 and for the next thirty years documented the city at a time of exponential growth. His interest in the Second City of the Empire covered all areas: from the slum housing of the working classes and immigrants settled in the east end to the mansions and country houses of the wealthy landowners located in the suburbs. His photographs astutely recorded the city, its people and the social changes occurring during the second half of the nineteenth century. To access this post, you must purchase Become ..read more

This talk explores how retail developments in Victorian Glasgow compared to – and at times anticipated – changes taking place in the French capital. Focusing on architecture, window displays, and internal design, it examines how Glasgow department stores, like their Parisian counterparts, became spaces not just of spectacle, but also of manipulation and disorientation. To access this post, you must purchase Become a Friend or Become a Fellow. The post Recorded Talk: 19th Century Retail and the Rise of the Department Store appeared first on Glasgow City Heritage Trust ..read more

Join Judith Bowers as she tells the tale of Doctor Edward William Pritchard, the Human Crocodile. The last man to be publicly hanged in the city for poisoning not just his wife, but his mother-in-law as well. A doctor who had more pregnant patients than any other doctor in Scotland. A man so vain he handed photographs of himself to ladies at his own execution. To access this post, you must purchase Become a Friend or Become a Fellow. The post Recorded Talk: Gruesome Glasgow appeared first on Glasgow City Heritage Trust ..read more

The 1988 Garden Festival changed how the world saw Glasgow, and how it saw itself. It lives on only in people’s memories as the buildings, objects and artworks from this temporary event are gone forever – or are they? Join Urban Prehistorian Kenny Brophy, Project Leader Lex Lamb, and Holder of the Official Garden Festival Umbrella Gordon Barr to learn how they have used crowdsourcing to build an ever growing digital record of the hundreds of pavilions, sculptures and attractions that made up the Festival. To access this post, you must purchase Become a Friend or Become a Fellow. The post Recor ..read more

Thursday, 2nd May | 1:00-3:00pm | On site at 19 Mirrlees Drive, Glasgow, G12 0SH Join GCHT and the National Trust for Scotland (NTS) for a unique CPD opportunity at the Trust’s recently acquired property on Mirrlees Drive.  Designed by the architect John A Campbell in 1906, the Category B-Listed townhouse is a former residence which is now being restored by NTS. In this CPD, you’ll get a chance to see in-situ the works NTS is doing to conserve and protect the building, including re-slating the roof, fixing the lead flashings, valleys and ridges, and stonemasonry repairs to the chimn ..read more