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RATHER than spending the day teaching in the classroom, some 3,500…
Backstage at SWG3
ON YouTube there’s a promotional video for Argyll’s extensive…
A PHOTOGRAPHER from The Bulletin took this image of the women’s…
JUST over two months ago, the charity aiming to refloat the historic…
Silver award
EVELYN Laye, one obituary observed in 1996, was for decades a major…
VARIOUS naval skills were on show aboard HMS Adamant, depot ship of…
A CENTURY ago yesterday, the revolutionary socialist John Maclean,…
JIMMY Logan had a soft spot in his memoirs for the Five Past Eight…
MUCH is made of the changing energy landscape in the context of the…
ON the eve of the royal opening of Glasgow’s 1938 Empire…
AS with all Lord Mayors of London, Sir Harry Twyford had an eventful…
“’PRESENT outlook still uncertain, with a general tendency to…
IN Aberdeen, seeking a better view amidst a crowd 15,000 strong,…
WILLIE Waddell, Billy Liddell, Willie Thornton and goalkeeper Bobby…
WHEN your latest film is set on board a fictional US submarine, and…
MEMBERS of the A.T.S., the Auxiliary Territorial Service, are piped…
IT was billed at the time as a unique experiment to combat football…
FIFTY years later, Joyce Davies still remembers the last kiss she…
IN years to come, politicians would be cautioned by their aides and…
ONE day in January, 1960, in Glasgow’s Hyndland Road, six men…
SEPTEMBER 1936, and the latest vessel to be launched at the…
A BAND from the W.R.A.F., the Women’s Royal Air Force, marches…
JOCK Stein was appointed manager of the Scottish national team in…
FOUR brothers who attended the same school in Glasgow and died in…
IN 1931, a member of the Melrose gentry, Dorothy E. Brooke, now…
“HERE they are,” the newspaper advertisements beckoned in May…
BY mid-November 1937, the season-ticket department at the…
ROBERT Donat had already built up an excellent reputation through…
SECURITY measures said to approach those put in place for the…
WHEN it comes to photography, Ronald Stokes’s philosophy is a…
IN October 1962, more than four years after suffering serious…
THERE’S a startling moment in the opening page of Ali Douglas’s…
IN August 1951, in front of 80,000 fans, Celtic defeated Aberdeen to…
“MAN with toy gun in £1000 bank raid”, read the Evening Times…
BEATLEMANIA was all very well but, when it came to provoking public…
IN January 1965 Judith Hart, then a Joint Parliamentary…
COLDITZ
IT was not an occasion that the Queen felt she could overlook - not…
Thanks to her gesture, scripts from 95 episodes of the detective…
IT has often been said of the Grade-A Garnethill Synagogue, built in…
ANTONY Armstrong-Jones, later the Earl of Snowdon, and husband to…
GLASGOW’S Lord Provost, John Stewart, met some notable circus acts…
THREE years before he became Prime Minister, Anthony Eden, as…
SHOPPERS in Glasgow’s Buchanan Street were startled to see…
A QUIET Sunday at the end of September 1956 ended in tragedy for one…
THE order books were full at the shipyards on the Clyde and…
PRINCESS Margaret and her husband, Antony Armstrong-Jones, came to…
THE Prince of Wales, in later life the Duke of Windsor, made a habit…
