Tanks on the Streets?
the battle of george square, glasgow, 1919
$48.22
- Paperback
232 pages
- Release Date
30 September 2025
Summary
Glasgow’s Bloody Friday: When Tanks Rolled into the City
At 12.08pm on Friday 31 January 1919, Margaret Buchanan drives her tram into George Square in Glasgow’s city centre. She slows down to avoid the youths and men holding their arms up to stop her; some even jump onto the front of her tram. Swirling around her tram is a sea of heavy-coated men who have been on strike since Monday, demanding a reduction to a forty-hour working week. Crucially, the tram workers have not joined the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399016599 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1399016598 |
| Author: | Gordon Barclay, Louise Heren |
| Publisher: | Pen & Sword Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Pen & Sword History |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 232 |
| Release Date: | 30 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
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About The Author
Gordon Barclay
Louise Heren is a television documentary producer and director, specialising in history programmes, as well as a social historian with a passion for history based on personal testimony. She has an MA in Scottish History and has recently returned to the University of St. Andrews as a part-time post-graduate student reading for a doctorate in male violence in interwar Scotland. Louise lives in Wiltshire with her family.
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