Focuses on the broad-based Popular party which opposed patronage in the Church of Scotland and which included all shades of theological and political opinion. Suggests the emergence of an intellectually confident grouping of ministers who were orthodox Evangelicals but 'Enlightened' thinkers was a significant feature in the 18th century Church.

This text provides an overview of Labour's electoral progress in Glasgow from its hesitant steps in the shadow of Liberalism to the moment it became the dominant party in the City in parliamentary and municipal politics.