- Paperback: 442 pages
- Publisher: The Grimsay Press (6 Jan 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1845300610
- ISBN-13: 978-1845300616
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.6 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,015,506 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Queen Margaret Union is as much a staple of Glasgow life as George Square, Sauchiehall Street or Buchanan Street. For nearly 120 years she has influenced the lives of students both of the old College bearing the same name and of the University of Glasgow. She has survived two world wars, out-lasted several monarchs of the United Kingdom and weathered some fairly public scandals. Throughout the decades, Queen Margaret Union's members have successfully managed to move with the times and to reinvent her image whenever necessary - often doing so ahead of the trend. From its humble beginnings in the basement of Queen Margaret College for Women, to its position as a top ranking entertainments venue in Glasgow, every possible aspect of the history is explored. This is a journey through these important times and events by the very people who lived them. Each decade offers the historical context as well as often quite personal memories about the Union and what it meant to its members. Gary R. Brown was President of Queen Margaret Union from July 2006 until June 2007 - the 106th student to hold the post. He has spent the best part of three years researching the history of the Union. Aiming for true perfection, he has traced as many former Presidents, Board Members and Staff of Queen Margaret Union as possible in putting together this volume.
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Ladies first, but all welcome.,
This review is from: Ladies First: A History of the Queen Margaret Union of the University of Glasgow (Paperback)
This book is a greatly entertaining read. The essays may not be perfect, there may be a wee bit repetition, but there's a lot of love inside. The book starts with beautiful descriptions of a Union and University no longer here, and the lives of upper class women in Glasgow before the turn of the century. It speaks, even then, of volunteers giving their all to the Union "often to the detriment of their degrees," and I've lost count of the students I've seen that happen to. If pressed, I might even admit it happened to me.
It's quite astonishing how the pictures of the Union in the 60s look exactly the same as now. The pictures of all the Board Members with their changing styles of dress are both informative and hilarious. The essays from all different eras are excellent, and the present-day snapshots are just as full of fun as those from the eighties/seventies/sixties... The beauty of this book is in the sheer number of writers, often speaking of the same events from different viewpoints. Lovely to see some staff members joining in as well as previous students. They put up with so much from us! This book brought back so many happy (and sad) memories for me, and I read it faster than any book in a long time. I hope you find the same.
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Ladies first; A history of Queen Margaret Union,
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This review is from: Ladies First: A History of the Queen Margaret Union of the University of Glasgow (Paperback)
Having been at Glasgow but a member of "the other Union" when we were on extremely friendly terms I was keen to glean as much as I could from this enticingly named volume and particularly about the period I knew best (1953 - 1962). He relies on essays, diary extracts and short articles by the female office bearers from the 1950s onwards and this, clearly has to have been his best source of information. Some of them are outstanding - Elma Cant (Willocks), Marion Forbes (Fraser) and, particularly Marcia Pirie and Rona Mackie I found to be full of top class material. It is all too easy to be critical of this type of publication - he gets some things out of time sequence, his own photograph appears on no fewer than twelve occasions but these are small matters and I much enjoyed re-living a very happy and exciting period of my own life through his pages. He errs in talking about the debating prowess of the GUU, in starting with the period of John Smith, Donald Dewar and Jimmy Gordon who simply followed in the footsteps of Kennedy and Mabon, Birnie and McCormick(Roger) and many others. The latter chapters written about a mixed sex QM tell simply of who got most drunk, hired the best "Pop" bands and woke up on the floor the following morning and are best left unread.
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Ladies first, but all welcome.,
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This review is from: Ladies First: A History of the Queen Margaret Union of the University of Glasgow (Paperback)
This book is a greatly entertaining read. The essays may not be perfect, there may be a wee bit repetition, but there's a lot of love inside. The book starts with beautiful descriptions of a Union and University no longer here, and the lives of upper class women in Glasgow before the turn of the century. It speaks, even then, of volunteers giving their all to the Union "often to the detriment of their degrees," and I've lost count of the students I've seen that happen to. If pressed, I might even admit it happened to me.
It's quite astonishing how the pictures of the Union in the 60s look exactly the same as now. The pictures of all the Board Members with their changing styles of dress are both informative and hilarious. The essays from all different eras are excellent, and the present-day snapshots are just as full of fun as those from the eighties/seventies/sixties... The beauty of this book is in the sheer number of writers, often speaking of the same events from different viewpoints. Lovely to see some staff members joining in as well as previous students. They put up with so much from us! This book brought back so many happy (and sad) memories for me, and I read it faster than any book in a long time. I hope you find the same. |
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