Route: city centre, meeting on the Broomielaw and ending in George Square. 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.
1919 RACE RIOT, JAMES WATT ST
- 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)
LA PASIONARIA & INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY
- Ethel MacDonald Collection @ The Mitchell Library, personal papers and Spanish Civil War archive materials
- Article on Helen Biggar’s documentary film ‘Challenge to Fascism: Glasgow’s May Day (1938)’ by Jenny Brownrigg and Shona Main
- Carlos Arredondo, Chilean exiliopedia in Scotland
MIGRATION & REFUGEE HISTORY
- Scottish Refugee Council
- Refugee history Scotland, recording of talk for Refugee Festival Scotland, 2021
- Ubuntu Glasgow
- Unity Sisters
- Milk Cafe Glasgow
- Soul Food Sisters
JOHN MACLEAN & PETER PETROFF
- John Maclean: Hero of Red Clydeside by Henry Bell
- Sections from The Autobiography of Peter Petroff
- Kevin Morgan, ‘In and out of the swamp: the unpublished autobiography of Peter Petroff’, Scottish Labour History, 48.
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, extensive online archive of interviews, campaign materials, writing, pamphlets
BUCHANAN STREET STEPS
STRICKLAND PRESS
- Ethel MacDonald film An Anarchist’s Story
- Strickland Press
- Guy Aldred collection, Glasgow Libraries
SOCIALIST SUNDAY SCHOOL MOVEMENT
- 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.
- Red Sunday School. Last Sunday of the month at Kinning Park Complex, all welcome! Find out more and support our work
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.
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