Route: meeting at the Kibble Palace in the Botanic Gardens and ending at Clifton Street gate to Kelvingrove Park. We adapt the routes every time we run tours 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.
Some links and resources from our Radical West End walking tour.
Suffragettes
- Women’s History Scotland: Suffrage Militancy in Scotland
- The Suffrage Oak
- Suffrage Oak a respectable 10th place in European Tree of the Year 2016
Kersland St – some notable residents
Ashton Lane
- Glasgow Against Arms and Fossil Fuels
- Thales plant in Glasgow shut down in Palestine protest
- The Trial of the Thales 3
- Aamer Anwar: How racism and police brutality shaped my life
- Sheku Bayoh Inquiry; STUC: Justice for Sheku Bayoh campaign
Hetherington Occupations (2011 & 2024)
- The Hetherington Occupation: Memories and Lessons for The Student Movement
- Dialectogram by Mitch Miller (“Dialectograms depict places that are marginal, under threat or disappeared. They borrow elements from ethnography, psychogeography and graphic art to depict the relationship we have with place, and each other”) of The Free Hetherington
- Update on University building occupation, Glasgow University Guardian 2024
University of Glasgow
- John Maclean – Henry’s book, writing by Maclean at Marxists Internet Archive
- Jimmy Reid’s Alienation speech; The Jimmy Reid Foundation
- Current University of Glasgow Rector Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah’s rectoral address
Glasgow International Exhibition, Kelvingrove Park 1901
- University of Glasgow Special Collections – Glasgow International Exhibition 1901
- Critical Heritage Walk – Kelvingrove Park by Dr Rosie Spooner
The Glasgow Story
Helen Macfarlane
- Biography of Helen Macfarlane
- Macfarlane translated the famous first lines of the Communist Manifesto as: “A frightful hobgoblin stalks through Europe. We are haunted by a ghost, the ghost of Communism.” Check out the rest of the first few paragraphs here. The whole thing is unfortunately behind an academic paywall, but if you would like to see the whole translation perhaps drop your friendly neighbourhood radical tour guides a line and we will see what we can do.
- David Black and Ben Watson, ‘Helen Macfarlane: Independent object’, Radical Philosophy 187, Sept/Oct 2014. (pdf) Detailed discussion of hobgoblins from p.17 onwards.
Queens Rooms
- Peter Kropotkin, selected works at Marxists Internet Archive
- Lucy Parsons
- The Haymarket Martyrs
- Arthur Ransome – Six Weeks in Russia
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