The Trades Hall in the heart of the Merchant City, Glasgow, has been home to Trades House since 1794. The Trades House is made up of fourteen incorporated crafts and is a charity focusing on both educational initiatives and supporting people in need. Robert Adam was the architect who won the commission for the hall […]
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Please join us in the comfortable surroundings of Glasgow’s Kelvin Hall for this live lecture, The City of Glasgow in Four Chapters, given by prolific historian, author, editor, academic, university lecturer and publisher Neil Baxter. Tea, coffee and biscuits will be served afterwards. ‘Discover the twelfth century bishop and marketing genius who ‘invented’ the City
From the mid 18th Century to the late 1980’s, Scotlland produced vast amounts of ceramics for both domestic and international markets and during the 19th Century, Scottish potteries were rivals to the Staffordshire potteries. Glasgow was home to many successful pottery companies during this time. Join Ruth Impey on Tuesday 15th April at 2pm to
We do not have any concrete information as to why Sir William collected arms and armour. There are, however, clues. The works of Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) outnumber all the other titles in Burrell’s Library and they are the most thumbed. Burrell’s daughter Marion recalled how she found her father’s ‘historical yarns immensely exciting’ on
Orchardson’s engaging works such as ‘Le Mariage de Convenance’ in Kelvingrove, brought him considerable critical success and ensured his reputation as an outstanding Scottish painter of contemporary and historical subjects. He avoided the detailed crowded compositions, favoured by many of his Victorian peers, instead concentrating on pertinent characterisation, harmonious arrangements and a distinctive technique admired
John MacKay is one of Scotland’s best known broadcasters. His career as a reporter and presenter has spanned from the Thatcher Years to the Independence Referendum and beyond. MacKay has been witness to the major stories in the country’s recent past. These include the tragedies of Lockerbie and Dunblane; the creation of the Scottish Parliament;
A look at the 195 year history of Scottish temperance with emphasis on ‘Glasgow, the birthplace of tee-totalism and still its capital in whisky-injured Scotland’. No one thinks much about the subject today and few remember that Dr T J Honeyman (Director of Glasgow Art Gallery and founder of FoGM) was once a leading light
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Scottish Furniture, 1500-1914, recently published by National Museums Scotland, is the first comprehensive narrative account of furnituremaking in this country. In this talk the book’s author will guide us through the evolving landscape of Scottish furniture-making, with a particular emphasis on items made in Glasgow. The contribution of Scotland’s best workshops was generally overlooked in
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum has one of the finest collections in the country. Among its many splendid artefacts are works of art created by some very talented and notable women artists such as Rachel Ruysch, Mary Cassatt, Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh, Jessie M King, Bessie McNicol and Joan Eardley. Some of these artists lived and
National Museums Scotland was generously donated over 300 pieces of art and studio glass by the passionate collector, supporter, and promoter of contemporary glass DanKlein (1938 – 2009), which he had amassed both separately, and alongside his partner Alan J. Poole. Klein notably championed the work of artists from Britain and Ireland forover 30 years,
