User contributions for Gjbarclay
A user with 173 edits. Account created on 29 May 2006.
31 January 2024
- 19:2519:25, 31 January 2024 diff hist +37 Battle of George Square Two minor changes for sense - issues left by my last edit and pointed out to me. Tag: Visual edit
- 19:2419:24, 31 January 2024 diff hist +57 User talk:Gjbarclay →Battle of George Square current
26 December 2023
- 16:2216:22, 26 December 2023 diff hist +13 Politics of Glasgow →Westminster: Edited to conform to main article on 'Battle of George Square'. Removed mythical elements. Tag: Visual edit
- 15:5815:58, 26 December 2023 diff hist −118 Battle of George Square The sidebar did not exclusively refer to the Battle of George Square, but to the Forty Hours Strike, which either should have its own page or be better incorporated into the main article. The strike leaders distanced themselves from the riot and it is misleading, as the sidebar does, to link the aims of the strike with the riot. Tag: Visual edit
- 15:5115:51, 26 December 2023 diff hist −86 Battle of George Square Added names of the leadership. It was not a 'decentralised leadership'. Tags: Visual edit Disambiguation links added
- 15:4815:48, 26 December 2023 diff hist −921 Battle of George Square Unevidenced statements removed. Tag: Visual edit
- 15:4615:46, 26 December 2023 diff hist +21 Battle of George Square →Bibliography: Out of date and inaccurate account replaced by modern evidence-based volume. Tag: Visual edit
- 15:3915:39, 26 December 2023 diff hist +9 Battle of George Square There was one fatality. Tag: Visual edit
- 15:3715:37, 26 December 2023 diff hist 0 Battle of George Square The sentences were the wrong way round. Shinwell got the longer sentence. Tag: Visual edit
- 15:3615:36, 26 December 2023 diff hist −76 Battle of George Square The mythology that troops in Maryhill were not used because they might side with their neighbours has been debunked. The unit in Maryhill was not a Glasgow regiment. Tag: Visual edit
- 15:3315:33, 26 December 2023 diff hist −47 Battle of George Square The 'machine gun nests' are a later invention by Manny Shinwell (who was in prison by the time the army arrived). There is no contemporary evidence for 'machine gun nests'. Tag: Visual edit
- 15:3215:32, 26 December 2023 diff hist +26 m Battle of George Square There were three tanks each of two types. Tag: Visual edit
- 15:3115:31, 26 December 2023 diff hist −77 Battle of George Square The belief that the crowd drove the police from the Square is part of the mythology. There is no contemporary evidence that supports the claim. Tag: Visual edit
- 15:2915:29, 26 December 2023 diff hist +128 Battle of George Square Clarification of the origins of the violence, as set out at the subsequent trial. Tag: Visual edit
- 15:2515:25, 26 December 2023 diff hist +597 Red Clydeside The article has been brought into conformity with the main article for the Battle of George Square. A substantially mythological version of events has been replaced by one for which evidence is presented in the cited texts. Tag: Visual edit
12 February 2022
- 11:1211:12, 12 February 2022 diff hist +2,360 Talk:Scheduled monument →Merger proposal with "ancient monument"
11 February 2022
- 13:3813:38, 11 February 2022 diff hist +1,004 Talk:Scheduled monument →Merger proposal with "ancient monument"
7 December 2020
- 19:4419:44, 7 December 2020 diff hist +33 m Battle of George Square Added date of end of strike. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
30 November 2020
- 19:1719:17, 30 November 2020 diff hist +38 Timeline of events preceding World War II More accurate account of the Battle of George Square - the army was called in by the city to deal with rioting, not to 'quell a strike'. The strike went on for a further 12 days. Tag: Visual edit
- 19:1219:12, 30 November 2020 diff hist +13 m 1919 in the United Kingdom More accurate wording of the entry for the Battle of George Square - the army was called in solely to deal with rioting. The 40 hours strike went on undisturbed for another 12 days. Tag: Visual edit
- 19:1019:10, 30 November 2020 diff hist +86 George Square No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
- 18:4018:40, 30 November 2020 diff hist −36 Revolutions of 1917–1923 The 'Battle of George Square' in Glasgow in 1919 was a riot between police and strikers. It was not in any way a 'revolution'', let alone a Communist one. One of the strike leaders, William Gallacher, published a retrospective fantasy of revolutionary potential in a 1936 memoir, but this is dismissed by most historians. Tag: Visual edit
- 18:3718:37, 30 November 2020 diff hist +18 m City of Glasgow Police There were no tanks in George Square, and no evidence for the machine guns on rooftops. Tag: Visual edit
- 18:3218:32, 30 November 2020 diff hist +106 Medium Mark C Corrected reference to Glasgow in 1919. The tanks were not used. Tag: Visual edit
2 October 2020
- 07:5407:54, 2 October 2020 diff hist −194 m Battle of George Square →Violence between protesters and police: Removed warning about lack of detail in reference, as this has now been rectified. Tag: Visual edit
- 07:5307:53, 2 October 2020 diff hist +74 m Battle of George Square →References: Provided fuller information for this reference Tag: Visual edit
- 07:4707:47, 2 October 2020 diff hist +678 Battle of George Square I have added a reference to the single fatality - Police Constable William McGregor, who died on 1 June 1919 of injuries received on 31 January, during the rioting. Tag: Visual edit
24 September 2020
- 07:4607:46, 24 September 2020 diff hist +3 m Riot Act Corrected "90,000" figure for crowd in George Square Glasgow in 1919. The figure accepted by both sides at the trial was 20-25,000. 90,000 people could not fit into George Square and then move in the way the crowd was described and filmed as doing. Tag: Visual edit
18 September 2020
- 08:2708:27, 18 September 2020 diff hist +36 m Battle of George Square Further clarification, that the attack on Kirkwood was apparently unprovoked. Tag: Visual edit
- 08:2608:26, 18 September 2020 diff hist −96 m Battle of George Square Two mentions of David Kirkwood imply that he was batoned on his way to George Square - the City Chambers are in George Square, so when he left the Chambers, he entered the Square, where he was batoned. The photo of Kirkwood that led to his acquittal was not the one of him lying unconscious, but one that shows him being hit from behind by a policeman, in an apparently unprovoked attack. Tag: Visual edit
17 August 2020
- 18:5018:50, 17 August 2020 diff hist +602 Battle of George Square Added meeting with Lord Provost on 29 January, and the telegram the Lord Provost sent to the government, which prompted the War Cabinet discussion on 30 January. Also added the Sheriff's enquiry about military aid. Tags: nowiki added Visual edit
- 18:4218:42, 17 August 2020 diff hist −42 Battle of George Square Replaced newspaper accounts (Sunday Post) with references to article in peer-reviewed academic journal. Corrected errors and provided more information in introductory para. Tag: Visual edit
13 August 2020
- 18:1618:16, 13 August 2020 diff hist −12 m Battle of George Square The riot etc were not "methods" of the 40 hours strike, they were "results' of the 'Battle' and I have therefore moved them. Also, there was rioting in parts of Glasgow, not 'throughout' the city.
10 August 2020
- 18:4718:47, 10 August 2020 diff hist +11 Battle of George Square The strike was known at the time as the "Forty Hours Strike", not the "40 Hour Strike". I've put it in inverted commas.
9 August 2020
- 07:4307:43, 9 August 2020 diff hist +20 m Battle of George Square Greater clarity of my own edit.
- 07:4007:40, 9 August 2020 diff hist +2 Battle of George Square The majority of contemporary eyewitness estimates, and the number accepted by both sides at the trial, were that the crowd was 20-25,000 strong. The 60,000 figure is an outlier in one Ministry of Munitions document unliekly to have been written by an eyewitness.
- 07:3107:31, 9 August 2020 diff hist +64 Battle of George Square No 'petition' had been handed in to the Lord Provost, and the CWC did not ask that the Lord Provost contact the government; the CWC had in fact decided that such a contact should not be made. But a delegation of strikers on 29 January, led by or merely accompanied by, depending on different versions, Shinwell met the Lord Provost, and the idea of a telegram to the Prime Minister was its outcome. The cited source (McLean, does not mention a petition.
- 07:2207:22, 9 August 2020 diff hist +65 m Battle of George Square Correction: the monarch's local representative was/is not the Sheriff, who was in 1919 (as now) a judge appointed by the monarch (like all judges) on the recommendation currently of the Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland. The monarch's local representative is the Lord Lieutenant (see Wikipedia article lord-lieutenant
7 September 2018
- 11:3811:38, 7 September 2018 diff hist 0 Battle of George Square →Fourty Hours Strike: spelling and punctuation.
8 July 2018
- 11:4611:46, 8 July 2018 diff hist +123 m Liverpool Scottish Added detail about move to Edinburgh in 1914
15 January 2018
- 18:3618:36, 15 January 2018 diff hist +1,905 Talk:Battle of George Square Explanation of changes made to the text, to reduce reliance on secondary sources and increase the number of primary sources.
- 17:1817:18, 15 January 2018 diff hist +40 m Battle of George Square Corrected misleading words in my previous edit.. Tag: Visual edit
- 17:1517:15, 15 January 2018 diff hist +3,385 Battle of George Square More detail of: Cabinet involvement; process of calling in military aid; involvement of Army Scottish Command. Contemporary newspaper references added. Doubtful reference to 'English troops' amended. Tag: Visual edit
6 September 2017
- 16:2716:27, 6 September 2017 diff hist −5 Tidal island Corrected misidentification of anti-boat barrier at Cramond Island. Water far to shallow for submarines to operate. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
19 July 2017
- 13:2713:27, 19 July 2017 diff hist +350 Islands of the Forth Amplification and correction in relation to 19th/20th century defences on the islands.
- 13:1613:16, 19 July 2017 diff hist −162 m Inchgarvie Silliness removed. Minor edits elsewhere.
13 June 2017
- 08:1008:10, 13 June 2017 diff hist +1,043 Cramond Island Added WW1. Added to WW2. Clarified nature of concrete pylons.
- 07:5107:51, 13 June 2017 diff hist +74 m The Scarifyers Added reference to forthcoming 'The Gnomes of Death'.
12 June 2017
- 18:2318:23, 12 June 2017 diff hist +936 Inchkeith Expanded and corrected material relating to 19th and 20th century defences.
- 17:3417:34, 12 June 2017 diff hist +851 Inchcolm Corrected and expanded text relating to the defence works on the island, and their purpose.
