The University of Glasgow is the second oldest of Scotland’s four Ancient Universities and the fourth oldest in the English-speaking world. It was founded in 1451 by a Papal Bull from Pope Nicholas V, on the suggestion of King James II of Scotland. The Bull championed the Bishop of Glasgow, William Turnbull, to found aContinue reading “Glasgow’s University, Est. 1451/c.1460/c.1650/1870…”
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Introduction
Firstly, let me come clean – I am neither an architect nor an historian. I am, currently, a PhD student in Electrical Engineering with a background in Physics, so, if any of my posts lack the nuance one would get from somebody even remotely qualified to speak of history and architecture and the like, thenContinue reading “Introduction”
Glasgow Then and Now 