Route: city centre, meeting outside City Halls and ending at James Watt Street. We adapt the routes slightly depending on roadworks, closures etc. If you’d like to see the map for an upcoming tour drop us a line on radicalglasgowtours at gmail.com. See this page for more information on accessibility on our tours.
Sources, resources & further reading
- Surat Alley, lascar trade unionist and communist
- Come and See the Empire by the All Red Route – pamphlet by the Workers’ Empire Exhibition Committee and the Glasgow Independent Labour Party
- Stephen Coyle – Margaret Skinnider and Irish republicanism in Glasgow
- CRER who are campaigning for a national museum, archive and learning centre dedicated to illuminating Scotland’s role in empire, colonialism, slavery and migration. Check out the first step in this process, the online Empire Museum
- Nelson Cummins’ walking tours with CRER and Glasgow Museums, mapping Glasgow’s history with colonialism, slavery, and abolition
- Ghost Dance shirt return to Lakota Sioux
- Jacqueline Jenkinson – Friendly Aliens on the Home Front: Migrants, Refugees and Colonial Workers in Scotland During and After the First World War (Scottish Archives Vol. 22, 2016)
- Jacqueline Jenkinson – 1919 Race Riots in Britain: their background and consequences (PhD thesis)
- Legacies of Slavery in Glasgow Museums and Collections
- Stephen Mullan – It Wisnae Us – The Truth About Glasgow and Slavery
- Rosie Spooner – Kelvingrove Park critical heritage walk, downloadable audio guide
- Thamine – Co-Constituting Imperial Glasgow and Rangoon
- Decolonising the British Empire Exhibition of 1938 through Augmented Reality Narratives – a new app and learning resources
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