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Singing in the Streets: A Glasgow Memoir
Singing in the Streets: A Glasgow Memoir
Singing in the Streets: A Glasgow Memoir
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Remembering our roots is the answer to revival.In Singing in the Streets Maria Fyfe tells her story from her upbringing in the Gorbals on the south bank of the River Clyde to her election as a Member of Parliament for Glasgow Maryhill and beyond. Fyfe takes the reader through the realities of living and growing up in the aftermath of WW2 to the pivotal days of her early life in the Labour Party. She offers a beautifully written personal, nostalgic and sometimes comic view of late-20th century Scotland. She considers class, sexism and politics and the progress that has been made – or has yet to be achieved. From council house to the House of Commons, Fyfe shows the reader that change is possible.We cannot wallow in misery. We have to fight.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherLuath Press
Release dateNov 15, 2020
ISBN9781910022238
Singing in the Streets: A Glasgow Memoir
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Maria Fyfe

Maria Fyfe was born in 1938 in the Gorbals. During the Second World War she was evacuated to Ireland. On return to Scotland her family moved around and finally settled in Pollok, Glasgow, where she remained until her marriage to Jim Fyfe. She now has two sons, Stephen and Chris, and four grandchildren, Catriona, Jacob, Max and Peter. Maria worked in various roles in the secretarial and education sectors before her political career, gaining a 2:1 in Economic History as a mature student and awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Glasgow University for her work for women. She joined the Labour Party in 1960, where (after a ‘wasted year’ in Jim Sillars’ Scottish Labour Party) she has remained ever since. Maria was a Glasgow District Councillor from 1980 to 1987 and them Glasgow Maryhill’s mp from 1987 until she retired in 2001. Since retirement, Maria has remained politically active, most recently in the successful Mary Barbour campaign.

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