After the recent dramatic collapse of the tour provider Thomas Cook, Alan McNee explores how the firm was perhaps the nineteenth century’s greatest force for popularizing and democratizing travel.
Tag: Scotland
Radical Memorialisation: Echoes of the Spanish Civil War in Glasgow
How does Scotland remember the hundreds of Scottish volunteers who fought in the Spanish Civil War? The continued existence – even vibrancy – of the commemorative community surrounding Scottish involvement in the Spanish Civil War poses valuable questions for the historian, as Fraser Raeburn explores.
A Family History from Berlin to Glasgow: Memories of Dumbarton Road by Martin Chalmers
A glimpse into post-war Glasgow life, via the Ruhr, from the unpublished memoirs of Martin Chalmers
A Game of One’s Own: Women’s Football in Victorian Britain
Continuing our History Workshop World Cup series, Tim Tate explores early attempts to establish women’s football as an international sport.
Radical Objects: Covenanter Gravestones as Political Protest
Memorials marking the graves and celebrating the sacrifices of the Restoration martyrs can be read as political texts.
Treacherous Objects: A Jacobite compass in Australia?
What does a Jacobite compass in Australia tell us about ‘treacherous objects’, nationalism, material culture, and diaspora today?
Labour’s Love Lost? The problems for the Scottish Labour Party
Andrew Perchard discusses some of the profound historical reasons that might help to explain the decline of Labour in Scotland
