GLASGOW: A HISTORY (PB)

The second city of the British Empire, Glasgow is famed world-wide for the ‘big ships’ and other heavy engineering. Yet it was also important to the tobacco trade, a centre of religion and home to designers and architects, inventors and entrepreneurs, immigrants and industrialists. The explosive growth in wealth and culture left a legacy of fine Victorian architecture, yet the city’s economic decline created a blight of poverty and unemployment it is still struggling to escape. From the Ice Age to the present day, this book tells Glasgow’s story.