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  • New Radical Glasgow Pubs tour

    All new for 2025, join us on a tour round six of the city’s finest pubs. Book your tickets here. This tour will make its way round six pubs, each one telling a different story of Glasgow radical history. From teenage anarchists and the highland clearances to Irish republicanism and other vintage left wing gossip.…

  • New Climate Action tours in March

    Hello friends, happy 2025! Thanks to support from Glasgow Climate Action Hub we have developed two new tours that examine the history and future of social movements and climate justice as we walk through our city. Each walk follows the route of one of the city’s rivers.  Book your free tickets via Eventbrite: Friday 28th March 10:30…

  • New! Winter-friendly INDOOR tour of Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum

    Join us for this new tour. We’ll go for a walk round the KG collections, seeking out radical histories in the objects and artworks. From direct action and imperial loot to international solidarity and revolutionary art, we can almost definitely guarantee that you will learn something new, even if you have been to Kelvingrove hundreds…

  • Booking now open: Radical Southside!

    Join Radical Glasgow Tours on our last public tours of the year! Take a walk around Pollokshields and Govanhill and learn about a few neighbourhood radical histories, from Maoist bank robbers, sabotage and slavery to political song, anti-fascism and Yiddish theatre. This tour was once famously described as being packed with radical oral histories aka…

  • Booking now open for September: (Anti) Colonial Glasgow

    Join us to walk through some of the histories of colonialism and anticolonialism in Glasgow, a city made opulent through exploitation. Learn about contested sites of colonial wealth and anti-imperialist struggle, revolutionary pamphlets, rousing speeches and brutal oppression. Friday 13th September 13:00-15:00 Saturday 14th September 10:30-12:30 Get your tickets on Eventbrite

  • Booking now open for July: George Square

    Join us to learn about some of the many events, actions and iconic moments that have taken place in George Square over the years. From housing protests, asylum dispersal and the raising of the red flag, to utopian poets, rent strikers and tenacious campaigners, this tour explores the ways people have used this central city…

  • Radical West End

    Newly added! Check out this new page of resources and links from our Radical West End walk.

  • 2024 tour schedule now up!

    The RGT team are very glad to be back with big plans for 2024 including several new tours alongside re-runs of some old favourites. You can find details of all the tours along with links to book tickets for upcoming tours here. We have also set up a Radical Glasgow Tours instagram account. Have a…

  • Tour: Refugee Histories of Glasgow

    SCOTLAND AND POLAND Shelter & Community: Polish Post-War Resettlement Camps in the United Kingdom by Juliette Bretan Polish exchange students in Scotland in the 1970s built a giant topographical map of the country, The Great Polish Map of Scotland, near Eddleston in the Borders. The map was the brainchild of Jan Tomasik, a Sergeant who…

  • Welcome to Radical Glasgow Tours

    Walking through the radical histories and present-day struggles of the city of Glasgow.