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Schools Model Building Challenge: Art Deco Southside Alive!
Schools from across South Glasgow (P6-S3 classes) have fashioned their own models of local Art Deco buildings. Come to our Community Exhibition & Celebration Day where the pupils will showcase their creations and get feedback from our Community Panel! BOOK HERE (free but registration required): https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/art-deco-southside-alive-schools-model-building-challenge-celebration-day-tickets-1048784441497 VENUE: 170 Queen’s Drive, Glasgow G42 […]
Urban Sketching: Art Deco Southside Alive!
Look beyond Art Deco’s geometry and get a taste of how to sketch freestyle! Join one of our outdoor urban sketching classes in Laurieston – for beginner to intermediate levels. Classes will be held 1-3pm on: Sun 9th June, Sat 15th June, Sat 22nd June, Sun 30th June. Suited to residents (aged 17+) of […]
#HeritageNights talk: Southside House Histories – Strange Affray at Crosshill
Talk: Southside House Histories – ‘Strange Affray at Crosshill’: architecture and social mobility in late 19th-century Glasgow This special #SouthGlasgowHeritageNights talk on Thursday 19th October focuses on Dr Ailsa Boyd’s research related to her own house in the Southside of Glasgow by tracing the histories of architect Robert Duncan (c.1840-1928) and the Battersby family. […]
Southside Chronicles – SGHET podcast show on Glad Radio
Sonic adventures in history, heritage and environment beckon as we’ve launched a podcast show on Glad Radio – the new community podcasting project for the Southside of Glasgow! The #SouthsideChronicles show from SGHET will explore different stories in each eposide, including audio versions of some of our blogs read by their authors so you […]
#HeritageNights talk: Rambles Round the Southside in the 1850s
Talk: Rambles Round the Southside in the 1850s This special #SouthGlasgowHeritageNights talk on Thursday 21st September revisits the writings of Victorian poet and journalist Hugh MacDonald (1817 – 1860). Free but places are limited – BOOK HERE. His best-loved work was Rambles Round Glasgow (1854), a collection of walks through areas that were […]
#HeritageNights talk: Discovering south Glasgow histories through Glasgow City Archives + SGHET AGM 2023
Join us for a special #SouthGlasgowHeritageNights talk on Thursday 31st August and discover how our amazing City Archives reveal south Glasgow’s rich and multi-layered past – followed by our open AGM – BOOK NOW The presentation will share a short introduction telling the story of Glasgow and its Archives, and will provide examples […]
Let’s make Glasgow a National Park City
Dom Hall from Glasgow National Park City shares news of a community celebration at the Hidden Gardens in Pollokshields on Saturday 2nd September and outlines what GNPC is all about in this guest blog… The idea of a National Park City is simple – to use the familiar idea of a National Park to […]
Cathcart Heritage Trail walks including Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival 2023
Cathcart Heritage Trail walks 2023 Join us on Friday 15th or Saturday 16th September as part of Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival 2023! The sights, sounds and scents of scenic Cathcart are perfectly in tune with this year’s Festival theme: ‘The Sensory City’… and as always, water, whether the White Cart that powered the […]
#HeritageNights talk: Southside House Histories – Time travel under Giffnock floorboards
Talk: Southside House Histories – Time travel under Giffnock floorboards Join us at 6.50pm on Thursday 25th May at The Deep End on Nithsdale St for the third of our 2023 #SouthGlasgowHeritageNights events – a talk from Paul Noble about a journey that began by accident beneath the floorboards and is heading in some […]
#HeritageNights talk: Taps aff? What happened after the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival
Talk: Taps aff? What happened after the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival Join us at 6.50pm on Thursday 27th April at The Deep End on Nithsdale St for the second of our 2023 #SouthGlasgowHeritageNights events – an illustrated talk from the After The Garden Festival team, followed by Q&A. Places are limited – BOOK […]
#HeritageNights talk: Uncovering Slavery ‘From Glasgow to the Caribbean’
Talk: Uncovering Slavery ‘From Glasgow to the Caribbean’ Join us at 6.50pm on Wed 22nd March at The Deep End on Nithsdale St for the first of our 2023 #SouthGlasgowHeritageNights events – a presentation from guest speaker Dr. Stuart Nisbet, followed by Q&A. Places are limited – BOOK HERE Over the past year, […]
Remembering the Future: Govanhill history & heritage project for young people
A new activity-based project – ‘Remembering the Future’ – kicks off on Thursday 19th January offering a series of free, creative and exploratory workshops and other events for young residents of Govanhill and surrounding neighbourhoods. The workshops will explore art as a way to come together, examine local histories, and share personal stories and […]
Support the Southside – be the new SGHET Treasurer!
Support the Southside – be the new SGHET Treasurer SGHET is a volunteer-run charitable trust focused on championing and sustaining the diverse heritage and environment of Glasgow’s amazing Southside, and we’re seeking a new Treasurer as we develop our programme of community heritage activities… If you’d like to be part of a […]
The Gallery at Pollok House celebrates Maud Sulter
The Gallery at Pollok House celebrates Maud Sulter 15 October–4 December 2022 and 6 January–15 January 2023 A new exhibition of the work of the internationally renowned Glaswegian-Ghanaian artist Maud Sulter is now open at The Gallery at Pollok House. Commenting on this landmark exhibition, the Estate of Maud Sulter said, “It’s such […]
South Glasgow heritage trail walks August and September 2022
Join us for three walking trails:… get into exploring the past, present and future of these historic Southside areas. Queen’s Park & Mary Queen of Scots Heritage Trail ~ Sunday 21st August (2-4pm) & Sunday 11th September (2-4pm) Queen’s Park opened as a public park in September 1862… so September 2022 marks its 160th […]
The Women of Cathcart Cemetery talk + SGHET AGM 2022
Join us on Thursday 25th August for the first of our Southside #HeritageNights to discover the stories of remarkable women buried in the celebrated Cathcart Cemetery on Glasgow’s southern fringe – followed by our annual AGM – BOOK NOW. Cathcart Cemetery is a picturesque 43 acre late Victorian Garden Cemetery in the Southside of […]
Slavery Legacies in Glasgow’s Southside – History Scotland article by SGHET
The extent to which Transatlantic slavery shaped Glasgow city centre has garnered much research, exposure and acknowledgement in recent decades. By contrast, the facts about how and why wealth made from enslaved people underpinned some of the Southside’s grand buildings and historic structures hadn’t been looked at sufficiently and in 2020 we decided to explore […]
Sustainable Stories: Community Archives & Heritage Group #COP26 conference Govanhill
Join us and groups from all over Scotland for this free event on Wednesday 10th November in the Southside during COP 26 to discover and explore a range of stories from community archives and heritage initiatives that capture the age of change and environmental crisis we’re living through – event open to all… BOOK […]
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