Except for the tilted, blue neon halo circling the bell tower, the hulking Romanesque-Gothic complex of stone arches, peaked turrets and stained-glass windows was just like any other 19th century ...

Fifty years ago, I was working on my dream job: preparing for the 800 Years of Glasgow exhibition, due to open in the People’s Palace in May 1975 when the new Glasgow District and Strathclyde Regional ...

From suffragettes to fighters in the Spanish Civil War, they are the people and stories woven into Glasgow's history. A new project is bringing fresh life to the city's past - through a rock band. The ...

These are the 13 original streets of ancient Glasgow - which in their entirity made up the whole of the medieval city Glasgow ...

Kevin Scott is one of the only people living today with ancestry linking back to Grahamston. Grahamston, Glasgow’s forgotten village. While the likes of Anderston, Partick, and Govan were absorbed ...

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An ancient well hidden for centuries within the Crypt of Glasgow Cathedral is being brought back into the spotlight this autumn as part of the city’s 850th anniversary celebrations. The site, long ...

In August 1879, around 6,000 spectators lined the banks of the River Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland, to see two teenagers called Elizabeth and Minnie swim half a mile. Now, 145 years later, there’s a ...

The history of a months-long rent strike of 30,000 Glasgow residents against profiteering landlords, forcing the government to freeze rents for the duration of World War I. Submitted by Steven. on ...

Tales of grave robbery and infamous murders are set to come alive this summer with a new guided tour through one of Glasgow’s oldest graveyards. ‘Talks of the Dead’ will take visitors through Ramshorn ...