The Cultural Memory of Georgian Glasgow
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I began writing my PhD thesis in late October 2012, in the Kildonan Hotel, Arran, following initial meetings with Murray Pittock. I had secured the PhD studentship on Murray’s AHRC-funded project ‘Georgian Glasgow’, a Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA) shared between the University of Glasgow and Glasgow Life. It was designed to combine supervised academic study and the best practices of the city’s cultural sector, with insight into the development of a major exhibition. I had just completed an MRes in Creative Writing, so this journey to the Georgian period was a leap of faith. The only common threads between the Master’s and PhD were ‘Glasgow’ and ‘memory’. Good threads to have, but without the support of Murray I doubt I would have made the leap convincingly. Once the writing began my second supervisor Gerard Carruthers helped guide me through the wonderful maze of Scottish literature in the eighteenth century. In my sessions with both I was able to draft ideas and encounter new realms at an exciting pace. It is firstly to the credit of these excellent mentors that I have been able to reconfigure a successful PhD thesis (winner of the 2016 Roy Medal) into the book you hold now. I am very grateful to the Andrew Tannahill Fund for the Furtherance of Scottish Literature, whose support went towards image digitisation and licensing fees for this work.
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