Book description
This ebook edition contains the full text version as per the book.
Doesn't include original photographic and illustrated material. 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. Piers Dudgeon is the author of
many works of non-fiction. He worked for ten years as an editor in
London, before starting his own publishing company producing books with
authors as diverse as John Fowles, Catherine Cookson, Peter Ackroyd,
Daphne du Maurier, Shirley Conran, Ted Hughes and Susan Hill.
Subsequently, he left London for Yorkshire and has written books about
Catherine Cookson (a no. 1 best-seller), Barbara Taylor Bradford,
Josephine Cox, J. M. Barrie and Daphne du Maurier, the lateral thinker
Edward de Bono, and the composer Sir John Tavener.
