
Gorbals writers and artists
- Ralph Glasser
- Maud Sulter
- Hannah Frank
- Jackie Kay(‘s dad was a Communist candidate in the Gorbals in 1969)
Gorbals antifascists
Anarchists
- Farquhar McLay
- Workers’ City, Glasgow 1990
- Emma Goldman
- Benny Lynch (not an anarchist as far as we know, but he did train in the boxing gym under local printshop Bakunin press, despite the anarchists who ran it all being committed pacifists)
Jewish Gorbals
- History of the Workers Circle in the UK, Jewish Museum London
- Ben Braber thesis, Integration of Jewish Immigrants in Glasgow 1880-1939
- ‘The Most Saving Slum in Glasgow, and the Most Abandoned’: Twentieth-Century Materiality and Twenty-First Century Virtuality in the Jewish Gorbals, Scotland – Phil Alexander. A fascinating on how the Jewish Gorbals is remembered today
Irish Gorbals
- Charles Carrigan
- The Brazen Head
- a brazen head, c/o Wikimedia Commons:

Southern Necropolis
- The Gorbals Vampire
- Jonny McKnight play
- Thomas Lipton
- The Lipton Cup, current whereabouts unknown
- the man himself:

Housing in the Gorbals
- Bruce Report
- 1979: Living With Damp, BBC archive film
- Caledonia Road demolition
- Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive
- Rev. John Harvey of the Gorbals Group & Stuart Baird, Motorway Archive, Disappeared Glasgow on If Glasgow’s Walls Could Talk, Glasgow City Heritage Trust‘s podcast
South Asian Gorbals
- Scotland’s first gurdwara, South Portland Street
- Affirming Difference and Reclaiming Integration: South Asian History in Glasgow’s Southside – Summer Jamal, Greater Govanhill
- Glasgow’s South Asian history – Saqib Razzaq, Colourful Heritage