Temperance Movement
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of some 900 objects relating to the Glasgow Temperance movement which date from between 1825 and 1976. This collection contains presentation trays, ceramics, medals, badges and brooches, banners and regalia, and photographs and portraits. It also contains concert programmes, membership and pledge cards, certificates, lantern slides, posters, newsletters, leaflets, songbooks, lapel ribbons, a silver plate teapot, a sugar bowl and a milk jug. It includes material from the Scottish Temperance League, the Band of Hope (for children aged up to 16), the Crusaders, the British Women's Temperance Association, the Army Temperance Association and the LNER Temperance Union. It also has material relating to the temperance friendly societies as well as prominent temperance campaigners such as John Dunlop, the 'father of the British temperance' and the publisher and Lord Provost William Collins. Glasgow was a centre of the British temperance movement and regarded as the birthplace of European temperance. Its role was to highlight the risks and prevent the effects of alcohol and alcohol abuse in society. There were several organizations with differing goals and methods within the movement. Temperance was also closely associated with charitable and religious missions. It had links with the co-operative movement, prominent socialists such as James Maxton and the development of businesses such as tea rooms and Camp Coffee.
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