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This chapter aims to represent a dialogue between museums and public health in Glasgow, in the historical context of civic reform and some efforts to develop new approaches in both sectors which are adequate to the issues faced by the city. It focuses on the partnership between Glasgow Museums and the Glasgow Centre for Population Health it starts, not with the perspective of the museum, but with an overview of the socio-economic history of the city and its relationship to long-standing and complex problems of inequality, poverty and ill-health. Glasgow was one of the ‘shock cities’ of the industrial revolution, becoming known as the ‘workshop of the world’ and the Second City of the Empire for the scale and quality of its manufactures. Its population grew from 70,000 in 1800 to over one million by 1914. Unequal access to economic opportunity is intertwined with, and inseparable from, a lived experience of health inequality within the city.
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