Handwritten daily entries accompanied by line drawings and colour illustrations drawn by the author.
Subjects include: Victory Week in Glasgow begins with a display of the tanks "Haig" and "Beatty" (13 Jan); hot air balloon launched from George Square (17 Jan); threat of a great nationwide strike (23 Jan); beginning of the 40 hour strike (27 Jan); estimated 40,000 on strike in Glasgow (28 Jan); strike has caused the electric power to be cut off from public works at Port Dundas Station (30 Jan); Riot Act read in George Square, strikers clash with police and the army brought in (31 Jan); thousands of troops now stationed in Glasgow and billeted in stations, at bridges and in public buildings including the Post Office and Municipal Buildings (1 Feb); armed sentries at the gas work and tramway works at Coplawhill (2 Feb); end of Clydeside Strike (11 Feb); visit to the Art Galleries (1 Mar); Clydebuilt airship flying over Govanhill (14 Mar); trial of the strike leaders, Shinwell, Gallagher, Kirkwood and Hopkins in Edinburgh (7 Apr); females no longer driving Glasgow tram cars (14 Apr); return of the 52nd (Lowland) Scottish Division to Glasgow (7 May); Sir Douglas Haig in Glasgow being presented with the freedom of the city (8 May); holiday to Ardrossan (14 - 29 Jun); peace celebrations in Glasgow (2 and 4 Aug); Victoria School's peace celebrations (5 Sep); death of his brother Sam (27 Sep); railway strike (28 Sep); speech on temperance by Mr W. E. Johnson ("Pussyfoot") in Glasgow (13 Oct); attendance at the Housing Exhibition (29 Oct); two minute silence to commemorate the armistice (11 Nov); execution of a murderer in Glasgow yesterday (12 Nov); attendance at the Kelvin Hall exhibition (22 Nov); attended the Exhibition of Science and Industry (3 Dec) and buying his son Meccano for Christmas (24 Dec).
Debits and visits for 1919 recorded at the end of the volume.