Walks and Tours
East End Women's Heritage Walks
These sell out women’s heritage walks, led by volunteer tour guides, show Glasgow’s neighbourhoods in a new light, making visible the often hidden and overlooked contributions women have made to the city.
About the walk
This special walk for Merchant City Festival started at the edge of the city’s heart before moving on the explore some of the neighbourhoods which border the Merchant City.
The guided walk focused on some of the achievements and struggles of the industrious and resourceful women of Glasgow’s East End, and the radical nature of the area which gave birth to them. Learning about the women of the Templeton factory, the suffragettes, the brazen women of Glasgow Green, Battling Betty, the woman who set up the Barras and many, many more!
The Listener
An immersive walking tour of Glasgow’s Merchant City acknowledging the Tobacco Lords’ involvement in the Transatlantic slave trade.
About the tour
With many streets in the Merchant City named after merchants who gained their wealth directly and indirectly from the blood, sweat, and tears of Enslaved African people, this tour shares information that all of us should be aware of as Glasgow explores this complex heritage
After registering for a place on the Listener, audiences will have access to podcasts with background information on the merchants featured on the walking tour.
Whilst taking the tour, our audiences will have access to an app and a webpage where they can access the immersive audio content of the walking tour and feedback on the tour themes.
What does it mean for people of different heritages to walk down a street named after a slave owner?
What could and should be done to address this unsettling reality, these ‘sins of the father’?