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 in the Scottish Band of Hope or that the Collins publishing empire, led by Lord Provost William Collins (“Watter Wullie”) was built on temperance tracts.
Elspeth King first researched the subject for the exhibition at the People’s Palace in 1979. She became Director of Dunfermline Heritage Trust, then the Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum before retiring in 2018.
