S.K. was visiting C.C.B. and, not waiting for breakfast, he was off to the University Club, where he spent hours writing obituaries of living Americans for The Manchester Guardian or The Glasgow Herald.

* 1305 – William Wallace, who led the Scottish resistance against England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London where he is put on trial and executed.

The estate was conveniently located within easy walking distance of Bletchley railway station, where the " Varsity Line " between the cities of Oxford and Cambridge – whose universities supplied many of the code-breakers – met the ( then-LMS ) main West Coast railway line between London and Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow.

His personal library, purchased after his death, eventually came to the University of Glasgow, where a commemorative exhibition of books from his library was held in 1974.

He attended the Glasgow Academy before studying at the University of Glasgow, in 1957, where he gained both a MA degree in History in 1961, and a second-class LLB degree in 1964, as well as editing the Glasgow University Guardian.

Bruce hurried from Dumfries to Glasgow, where, kneeling before Bishop Robert Wishart he made confession of his violence and sacrilege and was granted absolution by the Bishop.

The fundamental concepts of heat capacity and latent heat, which were necessary for the development of thermodynamics, were developed by Professor Joseph Black at the University of Glasgow, where James Watt was employed as an instrument maker.

He and Edward Balliol returned again in July with an army of 13, 000, and advanced through Scotland, first to Glasgow and then to Perth, where Edward III installed himself while his army looted and destroyed the surrounding countryside.

The University of Glasgow, where Smith was Professor of Logic and Moral Philosophy, changed the name of its Department of Political Economy to the Department of Economics ( ostensibly to avoid confusing prospective undergraduates ) in academic year 1997 – 98, making the class of 1998 the last to be graduated with a Scottish Master of Arts degree in Political Economy.

He attended the Glasgow Academy and then continued his education at the University of Glasgow under Thomas Anderson and then went to study in Germany at the University of Tübingen with Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig where his doctoral thesis was entitled Investigations in the Toluic and Nitrotoluic Acids.

The location of the house where he was born is now occupied by the Glasgow Central Mosque.

The movement had an " extraordinary flowering " in Scotland where it was represented by the development of the ' Glasgow Style ' which was based on the talent of the Glasgow School of Art.

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he was educated at Bradford Grammar School and the University of London where he achieved an MA degree in 1912.

" On his return, he resumed work with the Honeyman and Keppie architectural practice where he started his first major architectural project, the Glasgow Herald Building, in 1899.

He reminisces about this from 1980s Glasgow, where he lives as a recluse in a Victorian folly ( St Jutes ), ever since the tragic events which led to the demise of the band.

This Bildungsroman is set in the fictional Argyll town of Gallanach ( by its description, reminiscent of Oban but on the north east shore of Loch Crinan ), the real village of Lochgair, and in Glasgow where Prentice McHoan lives.

Ninety men of the 16th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry ( the " Glasgow Boys Brigade " Pals battalion ) were cut off in Frankfurt Trench, where they held out until 21 November when the 45 survivors — thirty of them wounded — surrendered.

As the British forces in the area lost ground under Luftwaffe bombardment, the King and his party were taken aboard the British cruiser HMS Glasgow at Molde and conveyed a further 1000 km north to Tromsø where a provisional capital was established on 1 May.

From Truro, the highway continues east for to New Glasgow ( where it links with provincial Highway 106 — that portion of the Trans-Canada running to the ferry terminal at Caribou ), and then northeast for another to the Canso Causeway which crosses the Strait of Canso to Cape Breton Island near Port Hawkesbury.

Five examples of this are Manchester ( where the traditional area associated includes areas of the neighbouring authorities of Trafford, Tameside, Oldham, Bury and the City of Salford ), Kingston upon Hull ( where surrounding areas and villages that are effectively suburbs, such as Cottingham, come under East Riding of Yorkshire Council ), Glasgow ( where suburban areas of the city are located in East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, South Lanarkshire and West Dunbartonshire ), Wolverhampton ( areas of the neighbouring authorities of Walsall, Dudley and South Staffordshire ) and, most obviously, London ( Greater London outside the City of London ).

Dewar's funeral service was held at Glasgow Cathedral, amid scenes of mourning unknown for a politician in Scotland's largest city.

The University of Glasgow is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities.

* Former Glasgow Herald offices in Mitchell Street, now The Lighthouse – Scotland's Centre for Architecture, Design and the City

At the heart of Scotland's Central Belt, Stirling has direct road connections to the major cities of Glasgow, via the M80 motorway, and Edinburgh, via the M9 motorway, as well as inter-city rail links from Stirling Railway Station.

The cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow are increasingly being seen as a cosmopolitan alternative to Scotland's countryside, with visitors year round, but the main tourist season is generally from April to October inclusive.

Founded in 1495, it is an ancient university and Scotland's third-oldest ( after the University of St. Andrews and the University of Glasgow ).

In physical terms, Prestwick is Scotland's largest commercial airfield, although in passenger traffic terms it sits in fourth place after Edinburgh Airport, Glasgow International, and Aberdeen Airport all of which are operated by BAA.

Behind this growth lay the rapid industrialisation of the nineteenth century which left much of the working population throughout Scotland's Central Belt from Glasgow to Edinburgh living in the housing stock built at the end of that century but accommodating far more people.

The association headquarters are at Hampden Park, Glasgow, which is Scotland's national stadium.

The plan to regenerate central Scotland's canals to reconnect Glasgow with Edinburgh was led by British Waterways with support and funding from seven local authorities, the Scottish Enterprise Network, the European Regional Development Fund, and the Millennium Commission.

The Glasgow School of Art ( GSA ) is Scotland's only independent art school offering university level programmes and research in architecture, fine art and design.

BBC Scotland's former headquarters on Queen Margaret Drive, Glasgow.

BBC Scotland's headquarters are currently located at BBC Pacific Quay on the banks of the River Clyde in Glasgow.

The current congregation is part of the Church of Scotland's Presbytery of Glasgow.

The club was formed in the 1970s and plays in a similar strip to that of Scotland's Glasgow Celtic.

Argyll had now become Scotland's biggest marque and soon moved from its premises in Bridgeton, Glasgow to a grand terracotta factory in the suburb of Alexandria built for the company by now named Argyll Motors Ltd.

In the same year the group organised the Cobweb disco, which was Scotland's first gay disco, and the SMG Glasgow Women's Group was launched along with its magazine Gayzette.

The majority of the station's networked programming is broadcast from the studios of Clyde 1 in Glasgow with Boogie and Dingo, Scotland's Hot 20, In: Demand Dance and Saturday Night with Krystle broadcast from Forth One in Edinburgh.

Unlike her controversial biography of Scotland's literary hero Robert Burns, her earlier work, two novels set in Edwardian Glasgow, lived in the shadows until their republication by feminist publishing house Virago in 1987.

It is also the location of Scotland's oldest synagogue ( founded in 1879 ) and the Glasgow Dental Hospital and School.

Passengers from the island can connect to Glasgow by train, which terminate in the village at the remarkable Wemyss Bay railway station, noted for its architectural qualities and regarded as one of Scotland's finest railway buildings.

The film was shown at the 2010 Glasgow Film Festival as part of their ' Great Scots ' strand before touring Scotland's regional cinemas.

One of Scotland's oldest sporting clubs Clydesdale Amateur Rowing Club, ( Inst 1857 ) moved from the south side of the river to Glasgow Green in 1901.

They registered their chosen name with the Irish Football League, taking the name from the area in which they were based, Lenadoon, Gweedore, Glenveagh are all local areas named after towns in County Donegal, with the Celtic part being taken on due to the massive local following for Scotland's Glasgow Celtic F. C., and formerly Belfast Celtic.