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South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust
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South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust (SGHET) https://linktr.ee/sghet - celebrating our histories and places for a #SustainableSouthside #Glasgow #Heritage

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South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust @sghetorg.bsky.social · Jan 5
Synchronicity max as 2025 marks both the #ArtDecoCentenary & #Glasgow850 celebrations! 🎉🎉 Looking forward to much more of both in the year ahead as revealed in the places, stories & designs that've shaped our unique landscape 💚 #Glasgow #ArtDeco #DearGreenPlace #ArtDeco100 #ArtDecoSouthsideAlive ✨
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agrayarchive.bsky.social
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
November 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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agrayarchive.bsky.social
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
Elspeth King obituary
Museum director and curator of the People’s Palace in Glasgow who reshaped it into a living record of the city’s social history
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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glasgowcoa.bsky.social
A wee wander round the Green today + spotted this banner someone has put at the front of the People's Palace - Elseth King RIP 🐦🌳🔔🐟
A banner draped on tailing at the steps of the People's Palace. There's a stone carved Glasgow CoA on the building behind
November 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
sghetorg.bsky.social
📣 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
November 18, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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fd-scotland.bsky.social
'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...
Carnegie Lecture & Private Reception | Kenneth B. Morris, Jr
Join us for our very special final Carnegie Lecture and Reception.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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ailsaboyd.bsky.social
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.
The department store architect: Gerald de Courcy Fraser
Gerald de Courcy Fraser (1873 – 1952) was an architect who worked mostly in Liverpool and Birmingham and was the company architect for Lewis’s department stores.
ailsaboyd.wordpress.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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imadgination03.bsky.social
📚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.
Why Historic Places Matter Emotionally
Cambridge Core - Archaeology: General Interest - Why Historic Places Matter Emotionally
www.cambridge.org
October 27, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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pastglasgow.co.uk
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
November 15, 2025 at 2:22 PM
sghetorg.bsky.social
#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
Section of a display panel titled 'Different Stories, Multiple Perspectives' outlining the polyvocal approach the Empire Retold project took to both collating interviews and quotes from members of the Glasgow community who took part in project workshops, as well as in their historical research. Selection of character cards and quote cards that users can select from to then see what characters they identify with and what quotes they would agree or disagree with. There are potentially many levels and different ways of playing this game, helping open up spaces for people to think through their own views and those of others in new and different ways.
November 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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museumsassociation.org
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
Tributes paid following death of Scotland's ‘powerhouse’ curator Elspeth King - Museums Association
Social historian remembered for her work to expand working-class collections at People’s Palace in Glasgow
www.museumsassociation.org
November 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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daisyabbott.bsky.social
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...
Empire Retold: Augmented Reality Narratives
Discover untold stories of ordinary people living during the British Empire and experience their stories in augmented reality.In 1938, a huge British Empire Exhibition took place in Bellahouston Park,...
www.beinghumanfestival.org
November 5, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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duille.com
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
November 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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lostglasgow.bsky.social
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...
November 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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pastglasgow.co.uk
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...
November 1, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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sghetorg.bsky.social
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
October 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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lmhatii.bsky.social
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!
Phone book by Andrew Sinclair, currently showing at Roger Billcliffe gallery, Glasgow, Oct - Nov 2025.
October 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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ewangibbs.bsky.social
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.
Coal Country - University of London Press
The flooding and subsequent closure of Scotland’s last deep coal mine in 2002 brought a centuries long saga to an end. Villages and towns across the densely populated Central Belt owe their existence ...
uolpress.co.uk
November 14, 2024 at 1:35 PM
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daisyabbott.bsky.social
Poster for an exhibition called Empire Retold: Augmented Reality Narratives. The poster text reads: Empire Retold: Augmented Reality Narratives, 6 - 15 November 2025, 10:00 - 19:30 (drop in), Advanced Research Centre (ARC), The University of Glasgow, G11 6EW. There are two logos, one for the School of Innovation and Technology, Glasgow School of Art. The second logo is the Being Human Festival 2025. There is an image in the background that shows a 3D model of the 1938 British Empire Exhibition that was held in Bellahouston Park, Glasgow. Overlaid onto this image is a pink glowing path, leading you into the scene and a partial view of some archival images of Tait's Tower. Being Human Festival (6 – 15 November) is the UK’s national festival of the humanities. Browse the full #BeingHuman2025 programme now: https://beinghumanfestival.org/festival-events
October 1, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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emmabastin.bsky.social
Join @artdecosocuk.bsky.social for their monthly online talk!
We will be welcoming artist Danny Keen on 30th October to talk about Art Deco, Modernism and the Black Aesthetic.
Tickets are available here www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/onl...
October 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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halemberg.bsky.social
Stylised roses on hallway tiles c1900 Vienna 18th district
#tilesonTuesday
Rambling rose border tiles separated from rose in square tiles by a wavy line
October 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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lostglasgow.bsky.social
#OTD in 1938, the gates finally closed on the Empire Exhibition, in Bellahouston Park.

As the last floodlight was turned off on Tait's Tower, a lone voice rang out in the hushed darkness: 'Let the spirit of the Exhibition live on...'
October 29, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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74frankfurt.bsky.social
Hutchesontown Area E, Gorbals, Glasgow. (1983) Pic: Tom Kidd
October 21, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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pastglasgow.co.uk
More from Glasgow, 1978, featuring Eglinton Toll, the Plaza Ballroom, the carnival at the Kelvin Hall, finished off with a sing song in Curlers. Look out for psychiatrist RD Laing talking about his dad's visits to the Plaza 😂

#glasgow
October 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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duille.com
A favourite tree.

Detail: Design for Scotland Street School. Charles Rennie Mackintosh. 1904.
October 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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daisyabbott.bsky.social
I'm excited to share another exhibition as part of the Being Human Festival (6 – 15 Nov). www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/empir...

@BeingHumanFest is the UK’s national festival of the humanities. Full #BeingHuman2025 programme: beinghumanfestival.org/festival-eve...

@sit-gsa.bsky.social
Empire Retold: Augmented Reality Narratives
Discover untold stories of ordinary people living during the British Empire and experience their stories in augmented reality.In 1938, a huge British Empire Exhibition took place in Bellahouston Park,...
www.beinghumanfestival.org
September 30, 2025 at 11:03 AM