Glasgow
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Glasgow was a city in Scotland. It was located in the west of the country. East of Glasgow was Edinburgh. (TV: The Lie of the Land [+]Loading...["The Lie of the Land (TV story)"]) Someone from Glasgow was called a Glaswegian. (AUDIO: The Revolution Game [+]Loading...["The Revolution Game (audio story)"])
History[[edit] | [edit source]]
Pre-21st century[[edit] | [edit source]]
The people of Glasgow were called Glaswegians. During the Jacobite Rising of 1745, they sided with King George II against Bonnie Prince Charlie. This caused the Second Doctor's companion Jamie McCrimmon, a former Jacobite, to resent Glaswegians. (PROSE: The Wheel of Ice)
Henry Gordon Jago worked at the Glasgow Empire as a young man. (AUDIO: The Lonely Clock)
The Second Doctor claimed that he took a degree under Joseph Lister in Glasgow in 1888. (TV: The Moonbase)
Commander Strax visited Glasgow in the 1890s due to the ease with which he could brawl there. Vastra wished he had never discovered it. He was in Glasgow when she summoned him for a conference call, meaning he had to be rendered unconscious by his opponent mid-fight. (TV: The Name of the Doctor)
21st century[[edit] | [edit source]]
In the early 21st century, Torchwood Two was run from above a bank in Glasgow by a man named Archie. (TV: Everything Changes; COMIC: The Selkie)
During the 2000s, Glasgow was one of the main cities affected by the terrorist attacks that claimed the lives of over 1000 people within the UK. (AUDIO: The Longest Night)
At 8:40AM GMT on a Wednesday in September 2009, Glasgow received at least one of seventeen RTAs occurring across Britain as a result of the 456 compelling every human child on Earth to suddenly stop and proclaim their message: "we are coming." (TV: Children of Earth: Day One)
In 2011, Night Dragon Haulage regularly shipped goods to Glasgow. (TV: The Curse of Clyde Langer)
Following their first adventure in Victorian London, the Twelfth Doctor attempted to take Clara Oswald back home to London in her own time, however, he accidentally landed in Glasgow. There, Clara received a phone call from the Eleventh Doctor, convincing her that his successor was still the Doctor. Clara noted to the Twelfth Doctor that, with his new Scottish persona, he would be right at home in Glasgow. (TV: Deep Breath) The Doctor later got them coffee from a shop in Glasgow, but ended up meeting Clara several weeks later. (TV: Into the Dalek)
Glasgow was among the world's major cities where forces of flying Cybermen emerged led by Missy. Taking to the skies, they created a cloud of cyber-pollen above the city. These pollen clouds would then rain upon the graves, recruiting the dead of the Earth into a new Cyberman army. When control of the Cyberman army went to the hands of the recently-converted Danny Pink, he ordered all Cybermen to return to the skies and self-destruct, taking the pollen clouds with them in their combined explosions. (TV: Death in Heaven)
Post-21st century[[edit] | [edit source]]
In 2595, Bernice Summerfield went to Glasgow as part of her search for the Sword of Forever. (PROSE: The Sword of Forever)
References[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Twelfth Doctor referred to Gallifrey as "Space Glasgow". (TV: Hell Bent) Bernice Summerfield observed that the Twelfth Doctor had more of a Glaswegian accent as opposed to the Seventh Doctor's Highlands accent. (PROSE: Big Bang Generation)
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Doctor Who actors Peter Capaldi, John Barrowman, Adrienne Corri, Andrew Marr and Michelle Gomez were all born in Glasgow.
