Key sources

ARCHIVES

Glasgow City Archives and Special Collections

Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN 0141 287 2999 libraries@glasgowlife.org.uk

glasgowlife.org.uk/libraries/ the-mitchell-library

Visit the Mitchell Library to search local newspapers on microfilm plus records of the City of Glasgow Police, including albums of criminals’ mugshots from c1930 and c1934. National Records of Scotland

General Register House, 2 Princes Street, Edinburgh EH1 3YY 0131 535 1314 historical_enquiries@nrscotland.gov.uk

nrscotland.gov.uk

NRS holds registers of Duke Street Prison and Barlinnie Prison, together with records of trials of gang members held at the High Court in Glasgow and at Glasgow Sheriff Court.

BOOKS

The Barlinnie Story: Riots, Death, Retribution and Redemption in Scotland’s Infamous Prison by Robert Jeffrey (Black & White Publishing, 2009) Veteran journalist Jeffrey tells the story of the Glasgow prison, which was built in the 19th century and is still used today. City of Gangs: Glasgow and the Rise of the British Gangster by Andrew Davies (Hodder & Stoughton, 2013) Davies’s book draws on 15 years of original research.

No Mean City

by Alexander McArthur and H Kingsley Long (Corgi, 1978) First published in 1935, this controversial novel dramatises life among the working class in the Gorbals in the 1920s.