A People's History of Scotland (51 page)

Edinburgh; BUF activity,
202
,
204
; Calton Hill,
104
,
248
; Canongate,
183
; Castle Hill,
53
; Covenanters and,
46
,
47
; Cowgate,
124
,
129
,
138
; education,
317
; female workforce, 1901,
134
; feminist activity,
253
,
254
; and the French Revolution,
84–6
; G8 summit, 2005,
298–300
; the general strike,
184
; George Heriot's School,
238–9
; George IV visits,
70–1
; Grassmarket,
94
,
129
; Greyfriars Kirk,
41–2
; High Church of St Giles,
40–1
; High Street,
91
,
183
; housing shortage,
229–30
; Islamophobia,
314–15
; Kingstables Road,
140
; Leith Wynd,
129
; life expectancy,
322
; Mannix visits,
171
; New Town,
97
; nurses strike,
297
; NUWM demonstration,
196–7
; population,
121
; Porteous Riot,
63
; press-gangs,
49
; Princes Street,
197
; radical Presbyterians,
39
; St. Giles Ward,
140
; St. Mary's Wynd,
129
; Scottish Enlightenment,
75
,
78
; Scottish Political Martyrs Monument,
92
; sectarianism,
199
; size,
14
,
69
,
124
; Spanish Civil War,
206–7
,
207–8
; trade unionism,
128
; and Union,
56–7
,
58
; Waverley Station,
208
; wealth,
122
; World War II,
221

Edinburgh Castle,
26
,
56

Edinburgh Evening News
,
260

Edinburgh People's Festival,
238–9

Edinburgh University,
75
,
76

Edward I, King of England,
16
,
18–20
,
22
,
23–6

Edward II, King of England,
19
,
26

Edward III, King of England,
27

Elgin,
63

Elizabeth I, Queen of England,
34–5
,
36
,
38

Elizabeth II, Queen,
248–9

Emergency Powers Act,
178

Engels, Friedrich,
4
,
106

Equiano, Olaudah,
78

Ewing, Winnie,
51
,
233

Falkirk, battle of, 1298,
22
,
92

Falkirk, battle of, 1745,
65

Farrage, Nigel,
306

Faslane,
268–70
,
299
,
300–1

Federation of Women Workers,
155

Ferguson, Adam,
75
,
76

Ferguson, John,
136

Fetteresso,
73

Fife,
62
,
129
,
135
,
154
,
177–81
,
180
,
185
,
187
,
261
,
263
,
265

Finlayson, Jim,
266

Fisher, Archie,
289

Fleming, Maurice,
282

Flodden Field, battle of,
29

Foot, Paul,
278–9

Fortriu,
8

Forward
,
149–50

Foy, Julia,
171

Franklin, Benjamin,
75
,
77

Fraser, Evgenia,
118

Fraser, W. Hamish,
101

Free Church of Scotland,
128

French Revolution,
78
,
79–80
,
84
,
88

Friends of Parliamentary Reform in England and Scotland,
92

Gaffney, Vince,
2

Gaitskell, Hugh,
236

Gallacher, Willie,
145
,
148
,
150
,
153
,
157–8
,
162
,
190

Galloway,
14
,
15
,
46
,
60
,
61–2
,
63

Galloway, Earl of,
60

Galloway, George,
268
,
274

Garioch, Robert,
280

Gault, Robert,
131

Geddes, Sir Auckland,
153

Geddes, Jenny,
40–1

General Association of Operative Weavers,
93

General Strike, the,
179–87
,
191
,
212
,
215
,
217–18

Gentle, Rose,
296

George I, King,
55
,
58

George II, King,
64
,
66
,
66–7

George III, King,
72
,
78
,
85

George IV, King,
70–1

Gerrald, Joseph,
89–90
,
92–3

Gibb, Alexander Dewar,
213

Gibbon, Lewis Grassic,
49

Gibson, Corey,
238

Gibson, Mel,
23

Gillespie, Morag,
312

Gilmour, Sir John,
173

Girvan,
130

Gladstone, William Ewart,
117–18
,
120
,
128–9
,
133

Glasgow; Bath Street,
145–6
; birth-control clinics,
169–70
; Bloody Friday,
156–7
; Botanic Gardens,
189
; Buchanan Street,
77
; BUF activity,
201–2
,
202
,
203–4
; Calton,
323
; car industry,
165
; Celtic,
129
,
267
; Chartism,
100
,
101
,
104
,
105
; City Council, 1933,
194
; cotton spinners strike,
98–9
; Covenanters and,
47
,
48
; Easterhouse,
229
; education,
317
; European City of Culture,
284–5
,
288
; female workforce, 1901,
134
; feminist activity,
253
; firefighters strike, 1973,
248
; food riots,
63
; general election, 1922,
167–9
; general election, 1945,
226
; general election, 1955,
232
; the general strike,
181
,
184
; George Square,
156–7
,
268
,
274
; Glassford Street,
77
; the Gorbals,
132
,
161
,
162
,
188
,
203–4
,
230
; growth,
69
; housing conditions,
127
; housing shortage,
229–30
; Hyndland,
124
; Ibrox Stadium,
173
; industrialisation,
121
; IRA activity,
170
,
171–3
; Islamophobia,
315
; Jamaica Street,
77
; Jewish population,
132
; Jordanhill College of Education,
251
; Kelvindock,
99
; male life expectancy,
322
; May Day demonstration, 1918,
152–3
; miners' strike, 1984–85,
264
; nurses strike,
296–8
; NUWM demonstration,
195–6
; painters,
279
,
288–9
; Parnell, visits,
113
,
128
; People's Palace,
288–9
; poll-tax battle,
272–4
; Pollok by-election, 1967,
233
; Pollokshields,
132
; population,
121
,
122
,
228
; Radical War of 1820,
93
,
95
,
96
,
97
; Rangers,
129
,
173
,
267
; rent strikes,
143–6
,
174–6
; Ruby Street,
182
; St Andrews Hall,
168
,
216–17
; Scottish Enlightenment,
75
; sectarianism,
129
,
130
,
131
,
200
; and slavery,
78
,
79
; Spanish Civil War,
206
,
207
; stereotypes,
192
; Stop the War Coalition,
294–6
; strike, 1832,
98
; STUC march,
245
; Tontine Tavern,
78,
84
; and Union,
58
; Virginia Street,
77
; weavers strike,
83–4
; West Regent Street,
163
; World War I,
190
; World War II,
193–4
,
221
,
224–5
.
See also
Clydebank; Clydeside

Glasgow Cathedral,
42

Glasgow Cotton Spinners Union,
99

Glasgow Eskimos, the,
234–37

Glasgow Herald
,
153
,
174–5
,
175
,
201
,
227
,
236
,
247
,
273

Glasgow Trades Council,
126
,
154

Glasgow University,
171
,
281

Glasgow Women's Housing Association,
189

Glasse, Rev W.,
139

Glen Dee,
2

Glencoe massacre,
52–3

Glencraig,
187

Glendale,
114

Glenfinnan,
64

Glorious Revolution, the,
48
,
49–50
,
53
,
54

Gododdin,
7

Graham, Alec,
166

Graham, Cunninghame,
136
,
137

Grangemouth,
154

Granger, James,
84

Gray, Alasdair,
279
,
280
,
281
,
285
,
287
,
325

Great Glen, the,
1

Greenock,
62–3
,
130
,
171
,
223
,
250
,
258–9

Grey, John,
62

Gurness,
6

Haddington, Earl of,
72

Hadrian's Wall,
5

Hall, Robin,
289

Hamilton,
103
,
155

Hamilton, Sir Basil,
60
,
61

Hamilton, Davie,
261

Hamilton, Duke of,
56–7

Hamilton, Janet,
125

Hardie, Kier,
136
,
137
,
142

Hart, Finlay,
156

Harvie, Andrew,
96

Harvie, Christopher,
119
,
143
,
151
,
291

Hawick,
97–8
,
207

Hawley, Lieutenant General Henry,
65

Hayman, David,
275

Healey, Denis,
252
,
309

Heath, Edward,
244–5
,
249
,
252

Hebrides, the,
11
,
12
,
165

Henderson, Alexander,
38–9
,
39

Henderson, Arthur,
149

Henderson, Hamish,
217
,
231
,
237
,
238
,
239

Henry VII, King of England,
28

Henry VIII, King of England,
28
,
33
,
36

Hewit, James,
98–9

Highland League,
115

Highland Line, the,
107

Hinton, James,
153

Hobsbaum, Philip,
281

Holstravel,
302

Holy Loch,
233–5

Holyrood,
51
,
58
,
197
,
291
,
293–4

Holytown,
104
,
155

Home, Earl of,
308

Horner, John,
88

Housing Financial Provisions Act,
249–50

Howell, David,
138

Hubbard, Gill,
299

Hughes, Bob,
253

Hullet, Alastair,
80

Humberside,
157

Hume, David,
75
,
76

Hunter, Margaret,
191

Huntershill,
91–93

Hunterston,
264

Hutcheson, Francis,
75

Hutton, James,
75

Hyndman, H. M.,
159

International League for the Defence and Furtherance of Protestantism (ILDFP),
174

Inverarary Castle,
71

Inverclyde,
130

Invergordon,
220

Inverurie,
26

Iona,
8
,
9
,
10

Iraq War,
294–6
,
299

Ireland, the Easter Rising,
160

Irish famine, the,
130

Irish Home Rule Bill 1886,
128–9

Irish Land League,
113

Irish Question, the,
117–18
,
131
,
139–40
,
161

Irish Republican Army (IRA),
170–3

Irvine,
62

James I, King,
29

James II, King,
29

James IV, King,
29

James V, King,
29
,
33

James VI, King,
36–7
,
38
,
39

James VII, King,
49
,
51–2
,
53
,
58

James, Colonel John,
46

Jefferson, Thomas,
75

John Mack,
233