Tour: George Square

ANTI APARTHEID MOVEMENT

• Scotland’s Sounds project, brief clips from interviews with Isabella Porte 1994-96 (halfway down the page)
• Glasgow Women’s Library, Nelson Mandela – Apartheid, Women and Glasgow
• Nelson Mandela Scottish Memorial Foundation
• History of the British Anti-Apartheid movement have a comprehensive online archive of interviews, campaign materials, writing, pamphlets

RED SUNDAY SCHOOL MOVEMENT      

• Red Sunday School. Last Sunday of the month at Kinning Park Complex, all welcome! Find out more and support our work
• Ruth Ewan documentary film on Socialist Sunday Schools ‘The Glasgow Schools’
• Clip from Red Skirts on Clydeside (1984) of women talking about their experiences attending the Socialist Sunday Schools.

ETHEL MACDONALD

• Ethel MacDonald film An Anarchist’s Story
• Strickland Press

AGNES DOLLAN

• Glasgow Times article on Agnes Dollan
• Protests and Suffragettes, project featuring Agnes Dollan

PATRICK DOLLAN

• The Sir Patrick Dollan Scrapbook Collection, Glasgow Libraries
• Carrigan, Daniel (2014) Patrick Dollan (1885-1963) and the labour movement in Glasgow. MPhil(R) thesis, University of Glasgow.
• Gallagher, Tom (23 November 1985). “Left man in the right place”. The Glasgow Herald. 

GEORGE SQUARE – PROTEST & MEMORY

• UNISON on the equal pay campaign in Glasgow
• Open University learning resource on the fight for equal pay
• Clip from Red Skirts on Clydeside, 1984 documentary film about women’s history and the 1915 Rent Strikes.
• Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive
• Glasgow City Heritage Trust podcast (series 2, episode 6) with Joey Simons on Glasgow’s housing struggles.

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 had been stationed at Galashiels during WWII and who ended up marrying a Scottish nurse.
• The hidden history of the UK’s post war Polish refugees
• The Polish Resettlement Corp in Scotland

THE ONE YOU HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR… JOHN S CLARKE

• John S Clarke biography
• Biography and list of materials relating to Clarke in the Working Class Movement Library
• ‘John S Clarke: Parliamentarian, Poet, Lion Tamer’ by Raymond Challinor. (1977) Pluto Press.