This tour is not running at the moment due to the closure of George Square (supposed to be reopening 2027). You can read about some of the stops below:
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.
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