Our Glasgow: Memories of Life in Disappearing Britain

Our Glasgow: Memories of Life in Disappearing Britain

by PiersDudgeon (Author)

Synopsis

This oral history of Glasgow spans most of the last century - a time of economic downturn and eventual renewal, in which the many communities making up the city experienced upheavals that tore some apart and brought others closer together. It tells of the beating heart of no mean city in the words of the people who made it what it is. Piers Dudgeon has listened to dozens of people who remember the city as it was, and who have lived through its many changes. They talk of childhood and education, of work and entertainment, of family, community values, health, politics, religion and music. Their stories will make you laugh and cry. It is people's own memories that make history real and this engrossing book captures them vividly.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Publisher: Headline Review
Published: 19 Feb 2009

ISBN 10: 0755317130
ISBN 13: 9780755317134

Media Reviews
'Dudgeon has hit on the winning formula of allowing the history of a place to reverberate through the voices of its citizenry' -- Jenni Frazer, The Jewish Chronicle '[Our Glasgow] has strong individual voices [and] Dudgeon bounds through his topics with energy and...erudition' -- The Herald '[I]t makes for surprisingly satisfying, if sometimes shocking, reading' -- The Scotsman
Author Bio
Piers Dudgeon is a writer, editor and photographer. Born in 1949, he worked for ten years as a publisher in London and then started his own company, publishing a number of bestsellers with authors as diverse as Daphne du Maurier, John Fowles, Edward de Bono, Shirley Conran and Susan Hill. Since 1989 he has worked as a journalist and written nine works of non-fiction. In 1993 he moved with his wife and three children to a village on the North Yorkshire moors, where he is setting up a residential school for writers and artists.