Glasgow Scotland has as long a history as Edinburgh, but no one would mistake Glasgow for Edinburgh. It would be like mistaking Boston for Pittsburgh. The city has been playing ‘cultural catchup’ for three hundred years, with the tobacco and sugar barons of the 17th and 18th centuries putting their money where their status was and the same thread continuing with heavy metal industries in the 19th and early 20th centuries. One thing that sets Glasgow apart as a city is the strong connections between its economic life and its feeling about itself as a place. Although there is still a strong picture of those ‘with’ and those ‘without’ in the 19th and early 20th centuries, (more…)
