Names in the Ledger: The Forgotten Clydeside Workers Whose Stories Are Finally Coming to Light
For generations, the story of the Clyde's golden age of shipbuilding was told in tonnage and launch dates, in the names of great vessels rather than the men and women who built them. Newly digitised archives, personal correspondence, and recorded oral histories are beginning to correct that imbalance, restoring individual faces to what was once an anonymous industrial canvas. For those with family roots in the yards, the discoveries can be quietly extraordinary.