To celebrate its centenary the BBC have recently made over 30,000 clips of archive footage from around the UK available…
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Stonehouse and Scotland’s new town programme in the 1970s
On 10 May 1976, two families moved into their new homes in the Lanarkshire town of Stonehouse. Four years earlier,…
Who designed your New Town School?
What school did you go to? We’ve all been asked ‘what school did you go to?’ as a child, or…
Revisiting Ferdinand Zweig’s Cumbernauld study of 1970
In the late 1960s Wates Ltd, a construction company interested in planning and developing ‘large-scale private-enterprise new communities’, sponsored a study…
What Could Have Been? Sir Anthony Wheeler’s unbuilt 1950 scheme for Glenrothes Town Centre
Glenrothes was Scotland’s second post-war New Town, and Fife’s only New Town. Anthony Wheeler joined its Development Corporation design team…
Oral history and generations in East Kilbride
Historians researching the recent past often employ oral history to access information and stories that don’t find their way into…
Welcome to the project!
‘Building a Modern Scotland: the New Towns, c. 1947-2017’ is a new project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust (July 2021-June…