While I hope the absence of footnotes enhances the companionability of the style, I suspect some readers may wish a little guidance about sources and further reading. Where sources could be suggested elegantly within the main text, I have gestured towards them. Researching the book, I relied repeatedly on several databases, including the British Library’s Nineteenth-Century British Newspapers collection (specifically for the digitally searchable Glasgow Herald); ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online); the Scotsman Digital Archive; Scran; and the websites of the institutions detailed in the preceding chapters. Digital newspapers were supplemented by paper ones, especially the Herald and the Scotsman.
On the architecture of Edinburgh, I had frequent recourse to The Buildings of Scotland: Edinburgh, by John Gifford, Colin McWilliam, David Walker, and Christopher Wilson (Yale, 2003), as well as to such specialist studies as the second edition of A. J. Youngson’s The Making of Classical Edinburgh (Edinburgh, 1988) and the publications of the Old Edinburgh Club, whose centenary conference was a boon to me; on the architecture of Glasgow, especially valuable were The Buildings of Scotland: Glasgow, by Elizabeth Williamson, Anne Riches, and Malcolm Higgs (Yale, 2005); Andor Gomme and David Walker’s Architecture of Glasgow (revised edition, London, 1987); and Ray McKenzie’s Public Sculpture of Glasgow (Liverpool, 2002). Also useful were the writings of James Macaulay, Robert Macleod, and Gavin Stamp.
On the social history of both cities within larger Scottish contexts, the works of T. M. Devine, Leah Leneman, and T. C. Smout were of great help. The best modern one-volume chronicles of each city are Michael Fry’s Edinburgh: A History of the City (London, 2009) and Irene Maver’s Glasgow (Edinburgh, 2000), though I have an indebtedness to and a soft spot for the work of the remarkable scholar David Daiches, one of very few people who have authored a book on Glasgow in addition to a book on Edinburgh. As I know to my gain, Hamish Whyte has edited or co-edited the best Glasgow anthologies, including Noise and Smoky Breath (Glasgow, 1983), Mungo’s Tongues (Edinburgh, 1993), and (with Simon Berry) Glasgow Observed (Edinburgh, 1987), though A Glasgow Keek Show (Glasgow, 1981), edited by the splendid Glaswegian social historian Frank Worsdall, is also very lively. Edinburgh has been less well served by modern anthologists (something I would like to remedy one day), so the best volume remains the very old In Praise of Edinburgh, edited by Rosaline Masson (London, 1912), followed by the largely topographic prose collected by David Daiches in Edinburgh: A Travellers’ Companion (London, 1986), the slim selection of verse in Lizzie MacGregor’s Luckenbooth (Edinburgh, 2007), and the all-too-short snippets in Ralph Lownie’s Auld Reekie (Edinburgh, 2004). On the other hand, whereas Glasgow lacks book-length literary guides, Edinburgh boasts several: Trevor Royle’s Precipitous City (Edinburgh, 1980) has been followed by the more recent A-to-Z guides by Allan Foster (2005) and Andrew Lownie (2005).
As mentioned in my main text, there are thousands of books about each of these two cities, many written by life-long devotees of one or the other, such as the nineteenth-century polymath Robert Chambers in Edinburgh and the twentieth-century journalist Jack House in Glasgow. Two that approach from unusual angles are Chiang Yee’s 1948 account, The Silent Traveller in Edinburgh, and Carol Craig’s provocative 2010 book The Tears That Made the Clyde: Well-Being in Glasgow. Classic accounts such as those by R. L. Stevenson and Daniel Defoe, or prose works such as novels by George Blake, Alasdair Gray, and James Kelman (Glasgow) or by Candia McWilliam, Walter Scott, and Muriel Spark (Edinburgh), have been mentioned in the preceding chapters. Rather than attempting to catalogue innumerable worthwhile volumes devoted to Glasgow or to Edinburgh, I shall conclude by mentioning just half a dozen books—three associated with Glasgow, three with Edinburgh—which I found particularly useful; readers in search of more specialist materials may find these volumes rewarding for insights into people from one city or the other. The books in question are the 1858 account of Glasgow, Midnight Scenes and Social Photographs: Being Sketches of Life in the Streets, Wynds, and Dens of the City, by “Shadow” (Alexander Brown), reprinted in Glasgow in 1976; T. J. Honeyman’s autobiography Art and Audacity (London, 1971); and Eleanor Gordon and Gwyneth Nair’s Murder and Morality in Victorian Britain: The Story of Madeleine Smith (Manchester, 2009). The three linked to Edinburgh are Michael F. Graham’s academic study The Blasphemies of Thomas Aikenhead: Boundaries of Belief on the Eve of the Enlightenment (Edinburgh, 2008); Eduardo Paolozzi: Writings and Interviews, edited by Robin Spencer (Oxford, 2000); and Lisa Rosner’s detailed account of the crimes of Burke and Hare, The Anatomy Murders (Philadelphia, 2010).