Growing Up in the Gorbals
Author: Ralph Glasser
Publisher: Random House (UK)
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →De auteur blikt terug op zijn jeugd in een arbeiderswijk in Glasgow tussen de Wereldoorlogen.
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The Real Gorbals Story
Author: Colin MacFarlane
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011-07-22
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 1780571682
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Colin MacFarlane was born in the Gorbals in the 1950s, 20 years after the publication of No Mean City, the classic novel about pre-war life in what was once Glasgow's most deprived district. He lived in the same street as its fictional 'razor king', Johnnie Stark, and subsequently realised that a lot of the old characters represented in the book were still around as late as the 1960s. Men still wore bunnets and played pitch and toss; women still treated the steamie as their social club. The razor gangs were running amok once again, and filth, violence, crime, rats, poverty and drunkenness abounded, just like they did in No Mean City. MacFarlane witnessed the last days of the old Gorbals as a major regeneration programme, begun in 1961, was implemented, and, as a street boy, he had a unique insight into a once great community in rapid decline. In this engrossing book, MacFarlane reveals what it was really like to live in the old Gorbals.
Gorbals Voices, Siren Songs
Author: Ralph Glasser
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780330315234
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The ‘Estranged’ Generation? Social and Generational Change in Interwar British Jewry
Author: David Dee
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-08-22
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 1349952389
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book focuses on the nature and extent of social change, integration and identity transformation within the Jewish community of Britain during the interwar years. It probes the notion – widely articulated by Jewish communal leaders at this time – that the immigrant second generation (i.e. British and foreign-born children of Russian and Eastern European Jews who migrated to Britain in the late Victorian era up to the First World War) had ‘estranged’ themselves from their Jewishness, Jewish elders and peers and were fast assimilating into the British mainstream.The volume analyses the second generation’s developing outlooks and behavioural trends in a variety of environments, effectively charting the changes and continuities present therein. As a whole, the book sheds light on the varied ways in which this group developed new identities that both drew from and reflected their Jewish and British heritage.
Gorbals...and God
Author: Hugh Sawers
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Published: 2013-09-01
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 1783060727
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Gorbals and God is a lively and compelling account of the author’s struggle against the poverty which affected so many Gorbals residents in the mid-1930s until redevelopment occurred in the 1960s. Author, Hugh Sawers, documents with unerring accuracy and insight the trials and challenges he encounters as he grows up. Gorbals and God is his account of how he meets and overcomes the hurdles before him. As well as a biographical tale, it is also a journey from atheism to belief, as Hugh is overwhelmed by a sense of God’s presence in his life and is called to the ministry. The book is testimony to the truth that we often struggle to overcome acute poverty whilst ignoring the riches which are within our grasp.
Gorbals Diehards
Author: Colin MacFarlane
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011-03-25
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1845968433
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Enid Blyton wrote about the Famous Five - wholesome kids who were always up to some adventure or other - but during the 1960s Glasgow boy Colin MacFarlane had his own gang: the Incredible Gorbals Diehards. These were young boys trying to survive in one of the world's toughest areas, the infamous slums of Glasgow. During the gang's daily adventures, they came across a plethora of undesirable characters, including foul-mouthed drunks, thieves, razor-flicking gang members, con men, fly men and street brawlers. Through it all, MacFarlane and his band of brothers retained their sense of humour while roaming the filthy, stench-ridden Gorbals backstreets. In the third volume of his acclaimed memoirs, bestselling author Colin MacFarlane reveals what it was like to grow up on the streets of the Gorbals during this period. Be prepared to be shocked and entertained at the adventures of the gang that called themselves the Incredible Gorbals Diehards.
Glasgow: The Autobiography
Author: Alan Taylor
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Published: 2016-09-01
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 0857909185
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Glasgow: The Autobiography tells the story of the fabled, former Second City of the British Empire from its origins as a bucolic village on the rivers Kelvin and Clyde, through the tumult of the Industrial Revolution to the third millennium. Including extracts from an astonishing array of contributors from Daniel Defoe, Dorothy Wordsworth and Dr Johnson to Evelyn Waugh and Dirk Bogarde, it also features the writing of bred-in-thebone Glaswegians such as Alasdair Gray, Liz Lochhead, James Kelman and 2020 Booker prize-winner Douglas Stuart. The result is a varied and vivid portrait of one of the world's great cities in all its grime and glory – a place which is at once infuriating, inspiring, raucous, humourful and never, ever dull.
On Glasgow and Edinburgh
Author: Robert Crawford
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2013-02-04
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 0674067274
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A mere forty miles apart, these cities have enjoyed a scratchy rivalry since wistful Edinburgh lost parliamentary sovereignty and defiant Glasgow came into its industrial promise. Crawford brings them to life between the covers of one book, in a tale that mixes novelty and familiarity, as Scotland’s cultural capital and largest commercial city do.
Football Culture
Author: Gerry Finn
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-01-11
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1136330356
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →These essays provide a critical investigation of football cultures, examining local and national impacts of the game's new millennial order over five continents.
Time and Space in the Neoliberal University
Author: Maddie Breeze
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-06-13
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 3030152464
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book offers new interdisciplinary analyses of borders and blockages in higher education and how they can be inhabited and reworked. Amidst stratified inequalities of race, gender, class and sexuality, across time and space, contributors explore what alternative academic futures can be claimed. While higher education institutions are increasingly concerned with ‘internationalization’, ‘diversity’, and ‘widening access and participation’, the sector remains complicit in reproducing entrenched inequalities of access and outcomes among both students and staff: boundaries of who does and does not belong are continually drawn, enacted, contested and redrawn. In the contemporary neoliberal, entrepreneurial and ‘post’-colonial educational context, contributors critically examine educational futures as these become more uncertain. This wide-ranging collection serves as a call to action for those concerned with the future of higher education, and how alternative futures can be reimagined.
