The Battle for George Square 1919: a contested history

Dr Louise Heren is in conversation Dr Susan McMillan discussing her latest book The Battle for George Square 1919. A riot during the Forty Hours Strike in Glasgow in January 1919, the Battle of George Square is routinely claimed to be one of the most iconic events in Scottish working-class history, which over the past century, has also become the most mythologised - a process which began at approximately 12.30pm on Friday 31 January 1919.