Glasgow's role in the Enlightenment is often overshadowed by Edinburgh, but Roy Campbell shows that the impetus came from the West with the pioneering work done in the city from the early years of the eighteenth century.
Michael Donnelly recounts his search for the glowing images from Glasgow's Victorian and Edwardian past, which amply testify to the flowering of the city's artistic genius and the innovatory techniques of its craftsmen.
Smoke gets in your eyes – but it also made the fortunes of the Clydeside merchants who shipped in the golden leaf from the New World and transformed Glasgow into an international commercial centre. Tom Devine tells how they did it.
Allan Massie opens our special issue on Glasgow and urban history by reflecting on 'ways of seeing' the city's past and present.
A frontier land, full of restless but pitiless industrialists and business entrepreneurs red in truth and claw? Nick Morgan tries to separate myth from reality in this survey of Glasgow's Victorian and Edwardian elites.
Australians can now pinpoint the actual birthplace of their nation in the centre of modern Sydney.
A chip off the old block? Susan Ware looks over the careers of the Hollywood actress and her radical mother and finds reflections of the changing roles and attitudes of women in 20th-century America.
Oiled excavations at Tintagel
Norman Bainbridge on springtime for Tupholme Abbey
In the first two decades of the 20th century escapist fantasy was not the sole diet offered to American audiences by the emerging film industry. Steven Ross relates the mixture of social realism and biting political commentary that inspired both filmmakers and reformers to the silver screen in the Progressive era.
