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1. Under the clouds   I left home in Fife and went to live in Glasgow when I was eighteen. When I think of it now, the distance seems laughably small – forty miles, little more than an hour in the train – but the contrast between a village on the east coast and a city, Scotland’s largest, on the west coast was sharp and exciting. I had a bedsit in a dark street of better-class tenements, with a Polish delicatessen, a dance hall and a cinema just round the corner. Glasgow seemed an infini...

Me and my Guardian: ‘I was hooked from the start’ Guardian readers, as told to Sophie Zeldin-ONeill © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Ruskin Photos/Alamy It was the late 60s. Every Sunday during term time a small group of us would take the bus into Bristol, to a small coffee bar with a jukebox. We would buy the latest Italian coffee and settle down at a corner table with our packet of Disque Bleu cigarettes, a collection of six penny pieces for the jukebox and a copy...

Me and my Guardian: ‘I was hooked from the start’ Guardian readers around the world tell us how they first discovered the paper and what it has meant to them since LA woman reads the Guardian in her garden, two days after the 2017 general election. Photograph: Ruskin Photos/Alamy LA woman reads the Guardian in her garden, two days after the 2017 general election. Photograph: Ruskin Photos/Alamy Sun 9 May 2021 09.00 EDT Last modified on Sun 9 May 2021 09.01 EDT Chris Alexander It wa...

Updated Chris Carrell championed community engagement (Picture copyright Alan Wylie, 1989) A visionary arts administrator who spent 13 years at the helm of Glasgow’s Third Eye Centre, Chris Carrell was a crucial figure in shaping Glasgow’s successful bid to be 1990 City of Culture. His energy and ability to enable others helped shape the grassroots arts scene for which the city is now internationally recognised. Born Ronald Christopher Carrell in Barnard Castle in 1941, he never knew the...

Last modified on Mon 3 May 2021 01.32 EDT Glasgow is haunted by itself. Unlike Edinburgh, whose every steeple and gable makes the past feel part of the present, Glasgow is its own ghost. In this city, which looks much more new than the capital, history is glimpsed from the corner of the eye; it is a shiver on a late-autumn night as darkness falls on Duke Street and the brewery smell fills the air. Glaswegians are chronic nostalgists. We have a pretty straightforward relationship with the past: ...

Why I’m exploring Glasgow with a 1930s guidebook Peter Ross © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Getty Images A special message from Microsoft News: India is currently being devastated by a deadly second wave of Covid. You can support Oxfams Covid relief efforts in India, including reaching out to the most affected and vulnerable communities, distributing and installing medical equipment and accessories, and supporting the most marginalised households. You can donate her...

A police spokesman said: "We received a report of a sudden death on Granville Street, Glasgow, around 4.30am on Wednesday, April 28. "A 55-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene. This is currently being treated as unexplained however enquiries are at an early stage. "The road is currently closed at North Street into Berkeley Street and at Sauchiehall Street into Granville Street. "Anyone with information about the incident should contact Police Scotland on 101 quoting incident nu...

A 60,000-piece Lego Concorde beneath the original will be among the attractions at the National Museum of Flight in East Fortune, East Lothian SCOTLAND takes its first significant step in lockdown easing today with the reopening of hospitality, gyms, non-essential shops and indoor attractions such as museums, galleries and libraries. Museums ranging from the RiversidFum and Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow to the National Museum of Scotland and the Scottish National Gallery of ...

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We think we know a lot about Australian and New Zealand soldiers’ health in the first world war. Many books, novels and television programs speak of wounds and war doctors, documenting the work of both Anzac nations’ medical corps. Often these histories begin with front-line doctors — known as regimental medical officers — who first reached wounded men in the field. The same histories often end in the hospital or at home. Yet, much of first world war medicine began and ended with the s...