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A fascinating paper trail for any Sou-siders...

🎁 🎄✨ Did an emergency drop of guidebooks at Stephen O'Neil art & gift boutique in #Glasgow Shawlands as they were running out..! Deadline for online orders is long gone now... only available in-store. Open 22nd, 23rd & 24th Dec ✨📚 #SouthGlasgowHeritageTrails #Glasgow850 bsky.app/profile/sghe...

This bit of my exhibition highlights that no two takes on the same coat of arms are identical - in this case the painted glass in Govanhill Baths. It totally depends on what the viewer brings to the picture. Today I clocked the exact same one in the 'Old Govanhill' book! 🏊‍♂️🐦🌳🔔🐟

🎁 🎄✨ Did an emergency drop of guidebooks at Stephen O'Neil art & gift boutique in #Glasgow Shawlands as they were running out..! Deadline for online orders is long gone now... only available in-store. Open 22nd, 23rd & 24th Dec ✨📚 #SouthGlasgowHeritageTrails #Glasgow850 bsky.app/profile/sghe...

A thread on how I bought an old book about a place I am also writing a book about, and became the unsuspecting owner of a rare 19th #Glasgow artefact, connected with one of Glasgow’s most picturesque bridges!

This is THE Christmas poem for me, in its pure joy and wish for better things in the new year. 'Trio' sums up Edwin Morgan's wild optimism, which many of us need now... Monsters of the year go blank, are scattered back, can't bear this march of three... www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/trio/

Street cafe society, Bogany Terrace, Castlemilk 1970s. Austin Princess missing a wheel. (#Glasgow Chronicles)

When I began reading, I found scraps of paper pasted into the binding, full of asides and additional information in the thick, old-fashioned print of a typewriter.

We're having a merry Edwin Morgan Christmas at the Daily Reckless. After yesterday's Holly and the Willoughby, here he is with his poem, Trio, backed by... Trio! @asls.org.uk @byleaveswelive.bsky.social @edmorgantrust.bsky.social

Found this amongst the leaflets at the Deep End today! (where the exhibition's running till 6 Feb) 🏊‍♀️🐦🌳🔔🐟

A week later, I held the little blue book in my hands. Whatever guilt I felt for not supporting that local bookstore was short-lived: the eBay copy was signed by the author, and I liked the added nearness of knowing his handwriting along with his nearby address and burial place in Cathcart Cemetery.

Let’s set the scene: I recently found a copy of Alexander Gartshore’s 1938 book Cathcart Memories, but could not afford the £45 that the very wonderful bookstore was asking for. My bargain-hunting friend found a copy on eBay going for around £25. I offered about £17.

No 7 Moray Place, home of Mike & Hilary Stanger, fundamental to the founding of The Strathbungo Society in the early 1970s.

Been a busy week incl several 14-hr shifts working on this wee gig. It's been amazing to get my teeth into something after being out of the picture for 5yrs. Great wee launch last night. It's on Mon-Fri, 12-5pm til 6 Feb. I'll be there on Thursdays 2-4pm if you want a guided tour

Greek Thomson had lived in Apsley Place in the Gorbals, once prosperous, but hit by the ravages of Cholera. He designed 1-10 Moray Place, then moved into No 1. It's curious that occupants of 6, 8, 9 & 11 were also from Apsley Place.

Moray Place was a step up from her childhood home.

8 Moray Place, whose first resident was Margaret Hay Spence, and her husband James Simpson, a jeweller. Margaret was born in Haroldswick on Unst, in almost the most northerly house in Britain.

#CharlesRennieMackintosh died #OTD 97 years ago: 10th December 1928 ~ we're *still* waiting for Scotland Street School built 1903-06, his educational tour de force 2nd only to the School of Art, to reopen after a circa 5-year closure for refurbishment & repurposing... #Glasgow850 #Glasgow #waiting 💚

Hoarse and larry, Ballater St, Gorbals, #Glasgow 1975. (Gerry Conetta)

The B-listed Pollokshaws Church on Shawbridge Street in the Southside of Glasgow photographed today. One of the last surviving buildings from old Pollokshaws, it was built in a Georgian style in 1843 as the Pollokshaws Original Secession Church. Cont./ #glasgow #architecture #pollokshaws

Sad news; one of the last survivors of old Pollokshaws... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Was lucky enough to catch the superb Martin Parr exhibition Think of Scotland at Pollok House in 2023, the last exhibition before it closed for refurbishment. RIP www.nts.org.uk/stories/mart...

Martin Parr, photographer acclaimed for observations of British life, dies aged 73. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Molly Pin Li McLaren, come home and look at the pictures in your brand-new book – a tree, a bird, a fish, a bell, a bell, a fish, a tree, a bird. Point, wee Molly, and say the word! —Liz Lochhead “Glasgow Nonsense Rhyme” in FUGITIVE COLOURS, Polygon 2016 #poem #poetry birlinn.co.uk/product/fugi...

❄️🧊 It's been winterval-ish weather in #Glasgow this week... and getting into the seasonal spirit we've now restocked Stephen O'Neil's art & gift store with a fresh stack of our South Glasgow Heritage Trails guidebooks (also available online) ☺️📚✨ bsky.app/profile/sghe...

International star Paul Robeson went straight from his concert at Bellahouston Park to visit the Kingston Halls event.

Radical #20s30s - this is great.

First exhibition in 5 years - the boards are back!! Updated with loads of recent contributions. A selection of the crowd-sourced archive pics - including this cracker of Govanhill Baths from @druidic.org - getting shown at a Southside venue for the 1st time 😁🐦🌳🔔🐟 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/glasgow-co...

Perspective from the North West "A House for an Art Lover". Charles Rennie Mackintosh & Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh. 1901.

❄️🧊 It's been winterval-ish weather in #Glasgow this week... and getting into the seasonal spirit we've now restocked Stephen O'Neil's art & gift store with a fresh stack of our South Glasgow Heritage Trails guidebooks (also available online) ☺️📚✨ bsky.app/profile/sghe...

Detail: Design for an Art Lover's house. Charles Rennie Mackintosh & Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh .1901.

Larkin meets Thomson at the Caledonia Road Church, Glasgow, 20th October 2025. #alexandergreekthomson #agt #glasgow #churches (@calligraphyoutside.bsky.social) more on ALT

The obituary on Elspeth King by our Custodian @sorchadallas.bsky.social will be in tomorrow’s @theguardian.com paper if anyone would like to read a physical version

Our Custodian, @sorchadallas.bsky.social has written an obituary for Elspeth King in The Guardian. King transformed how Scotland’s museums told the stories of everyday people—https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/16/elspeth-king-obituary

A wee wander round the Green today + spotted this banner someone has put at the front of the People's Palace - Elseth King RIP 🐦🌳🔔🐟

📣 The latest entrant in our Starter Pack for 'Greater Glasgow Heritage & History' is... the newly arrived University of Glasgow Archives & Special Collections @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social bringing the #Glasgow massive to 85 accounts to check out & follow! A #Glasgow850 milestone 💚✨ go.bsky.app/M4Dezri

'Hosted in the Assembly Rooms, where Frederick Douglass repeatedly spoke to thousands of people, we invite audiences to join us in person and online to attend the last in this series of lectures.' (Edinburgh, Thu 20 Nov) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/carnegie-l...

My latest blog is some original research into art deco architect Gerald de Courcy Fraser (1873 – 1952) who was the company architect for Lewis’s department stores.

📚New book!!! So happy to share that ‘Why Historic Places Matter Emotionally’ has just been published by Cambridge University Press. Outlines a conceptual framework for ‘emotion’ comprised of responses, attachments, and communities built from evidence from places across England and Scotland.

Shops on Battlefield Rd, where it forms a gushet with Battlefield Gardens. The corner is occupied by the Kinning Park Cooperative Society, which was formed in 1871 at the same time as the police burgh of Kinning Park itself. 📷 Glasgow City Archives #glasgow

#Glasgow850 Caught 'Empire Retold' project's display @uofglasgow.bsky.social ARC building today (ends tomorrow) ~ the polyvocal approach to story collecting is long overdue & character/quote cards you can play with an inspired move ~ fantastic all round @daisyabbott.bsky.social @sit-gsa.bsky.social

News | Tributes paid following death of Scotland’s ‘powerhouse’ curator Elspeth King – social historian remembered for her work to expand working-class collections at People’s Palace in Glasgow

Exhibition opens on Friday! Empire Retold: Augmented Reality Narratives 6 - 15 Nov, 2025, 10:00 - 19:30 The ARC, University of Glasgow www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/empir...

The Mackintosh-designed Glasgow Herald building (1895) most recently known as The Glasgow Lighthouse will likely become a "net zero innovation hub". Glasgow City Council will make repairs of £2m. Future public access arrangements remain unclear. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2pg0g4yl9o

Back to school... Oddly enough, I saw a story last week saying that Hutchie is to move its nursery and primary departments to their Beaton Road HQ, meaning the former girls' school, in Kingarth Street, will soon be up for grabs. Fancy flats incoming...

I'm saddened to learn of the passing of Dr Elspeth King, the legendary curator of the People's Palace, and a fierce advocate for Glasgow and its history. This was fascinating on the release of the film adaptation of Alasdair Gray's "Poor Things". yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com/2024/01/10/p...

It's 4 whole months since we last posted about our Greater #Glasgow Heritage & History starter pack, created waaaay back to make it easier for folk to find local nourishment here... 💚 New additions inc @clydevalleyarf.bsky.social @weesue7.bsky.social @mininglandscapes.bsky.social go.bsky.app/M4Dezri

So sad that the Roger Billcliffe #artgallery in #Glasgow will be closing at the end of the year. This is probably my favourite private gallery in #Scotland, weathering many storms since 1992. There's a gorgeous still life show to 15 Nov: www.billcliffegallery.com/events/event... - go while you can!

My book, Coal Country: The Meaning and Memory of Deindustrialization in Postwar Scotland is the first book-length account of the end of coal mining in Scotland through the memories of miners and their families. It is available to download for free on this link, or you can also buy paper copies.