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Night Song of the Last Tram - A Glasgow Childhood

Author: Robert Douglas

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Published: 2007-10-13

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1444719351

This is a wonderfully colourful and deeply poignant memoir of growing up in a 'single end' - one room in a Glasgow tenement - during and immediately after the Second World War. Although young Robert Douglas's life was blighted by the cruel if sporadic presence of his father, it was equally blessed by the love of his mother, Janet. While the story of their life together is in some ways very sad, it is also filled with humorous and happy memories. "Night Song of The Last Tram" is a superb evocation of childhood and of a Glasgow of trams and tenements that has long since disappeared.

Night Song of the Last Tram

Author: Robert Douglas

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9780340838600

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Memoir of growing up in the postwar period in a one room in a Glasgow tenement.

Night Song of the Last Tram

Author: Robert Douglas

Publisher:

Published: 2011-04

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 9780750533386

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Our Glasgow

Author: Piers Dudgeon

Publisher: Headline

Published: 2012-10-25

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 0755364465

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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.

Reading Across Worlds

Author: J. Procter

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-12-17

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1137276401

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Combining sustained empirical analysis of reading group conversations with four case studies of classic and contemporary novels: Things Fall Apart, White Teeth, Brick Lane and Small Island, this book pursues what can be gained through a comparative approach to reading and readerships.

Experiencing war as the 'enemy other'

Author: Wendy Ugolini

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2017-10-03

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1526126311

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Italy’s declaration of war on Britain in June 1940 had devastating consequences for Italian immigrant families living in Scotland signalling their traumatic construction as the ‘enemy other’. Through an analysis of personal testimonies and previously unpublished archival material, this book takes a case study of a long-established immigrant group and explores how notions of belonging and citizenship are undermined at a time of war. Overall, this book considers how wartime events affected the construction or Italian identity in Britain. It makes a groundbreaking and original contribution to the social and cultural history of Britain during World War Two as well as the wider literature on war, memory and ethnicity. It will appeal to scholars and students of British and Scottish cultural and social history and the history of World War II.

Whose Turn for the Stairs?

Author: Robert Douglas

Publisher: Hachette Scotland

Published: 2011-12-08

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 0755388518

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This is an utterly charming story about twelve families and their tightly knit street in 1950s Maryhill. Following the end of the war, the close rebuilds its ties and the strong sense of community and friendly neighbourhood bonds are soon back in place. There is young love for Rhea and Robert; a surprising new start for James; a change of direction for George; and all overseen by the matriarch of the street - Granny Thomson. And of course, all buoyed up by a big helping of Scottish humour and strength of spirit. Yet it is all not perfect in their world: the families have to deal with poverty, religious bigotry, racism, heartbreak, lies, violence and death. But the powerful friendships cannot ultimately be broken. In Robert Douglas's first novel, he recreates a time and place particular to Glasgow but to which everyone will relate.

America in the British Imagination

Author: J. Lyons

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-12-18

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1137376805

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How was American culture disseminated into Britain? Why did many British citizens embrace American customs? And what picture did they form of American society and politics? This engaging and wide-ranging history explores these and other questions about the U.S.'s cultural and political influence on British society in the post-World War II period.

Somewhere To Lay My Head

Author: Robert Douglas

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Published: 2007-05-03

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 144471936X

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We left Robert a long way from home, a sixteen-year-old recruit in the RAF. Now, we follow his escape from the Forces (until National Service a few years later!), his return to Glasgow and life down the pit. Once more, Robert's fantastic memory for people, places and anecdotes, combined with an ear for individual voices and the brilliant ability to evoke a bygone sense of community, will enchant his readers and sometimes appal them with the brutality of conditions he experienced.

Staying On Past the Terminus

Author: Robert Douglas

Publisher: Hachette Scotland

Published: 2011-09-15

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 0755388526

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Glasgow 1961. It is ten years since we last visited the close at 18 Dalbeattie Street in Maryhill. The stalwarts are still there...Ella, Drena, Rhea and 'Granny' Thomson (86). Irma the German war bride speaks fluent Scots nowadays. Well, 'Fluent' if you were brought up in the same close as the Broons and Oor Wullie. Glasgow's beloved trams still run on the Maryhill Road. But not for long. There will not be a tramcar left in Glasgow by the end of next year. The new tenant, Frank Galloway knows all about this - he's a driver. The other new arrival is Ruby Baxter who impresses no one with her attitude - as Granny Thomson says 'She's no better than she ought to be, that yin!' Robert Douglas brings his usual blend of laughter and tears to this latest novel and his many fans will not be disappointed.