Talks

Veteran festival and events director Michael Dale, who founded the West End Festival in 1996, reviews his experiences of being the boss not just of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in […]

Websters Theatre, formerly Lansdowne Parish Church, is home to stained glass windows by highly acclaimed Glasgow designer Alf Webster. David Robertson, Director of Four Acres Charitable Trust describes this wonderful […]

Rowena Statt, local resident and architect, presents old maps and archive images to explain the Victorian evolution of North Kelvinside, when speculative building rapidly consumed the R. Kelvin's beautiful wooded […]

Michael Meighan, author and historian, remembers riding a trolleybus or tram to visit relatives and taking a steam train and paddle steamer ‘doon the water’ to Dunoon. Since then, trams […]

Glasgow’s West End is renowned for its glorious Victorian townscape, but there's also a rich legacy from its earlier history. In this talk, historian Gordon R. Urquhart will examine the […]

Will Jess and Lucy Janes of Arlington Baths History Group will bring to life this Grade 'A' listed Victorian bathing complex designed by John Burnet and other eminent architects. Owned […]

Little is known about the manual workers who constructed major Victorian buildings, but Joseph Sharples of the Hunterian, University of Glasgow, has researched in detail the lives of about 100 […]

After WW2, Glasgow's infamous 'Bruce Plan' proposed motorways encircling a completely remodelled futuristic city centre. So many key assets were demolished for modernisation that by 1964 our Victorian heritage was […]

In talent, Sir JJ Burnet’s was as great as Thomson and Mackintosh while his career was even more stellar in achievement - yet he remains little known, the most mysterious […]

Rosalie Menon, Glasgow School of Art, presents her new publication "Glasgow from Above" with stunning aerial photography by Alistair Leith. The book offers a historical perspective on Glasgow’s postindustrial landscape […]

Glasgow University's new Western Campus is rapidly expanding with the completion of the James McCune Smith Learning Hub, Clarice Pears building, Advanced Research Centre (ARC) and Adam Smith Business School. […]

Barclay Price, author and historian, spent the first 20 years of his life growing up in Ruthven Lane. His recent publication is written from the heart, with love, many interesting […]

Share in the compelling and historically rich journey from Glasgow’s first Lunatic Asylum at Dobbie’s Loan to Gartnavel Royal Hospital, with Eileen Ross as your guide. She will reflect on […]