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£14.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780993552458 | ISBN 10: 0993552455
Liverpool is a cosmopolitan city populated by people and communities from all over the world. One of the least known components is the Greek community.
Greek people have created colonies and communities around Europe and the wider world since ... more
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£15.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781398110632 | ISBN 10: 1398110639
The history of Georgian Liverpool through its buildings. All those interested in the history of Liverpool will find this a fascinating exploration of the Georgian heritage of this city.
Liverpool grew rapidly in the Georgian period as it ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780750970396 | ISBN 10: 0750970391
The First World War claimed over 995,000 British lives, and its legacy continues to be remembered today.
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Great War Britain: Liverpool offers a detailed insight into this great city and its people facing the challenges of wartime. This highly acc ... more
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£15.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781398111660 | ISBN 10: 139811166x
The relationship between humans and horses has played a vital role in shaping our towns and cities. This book offers a fascinating insight into the history of working horses in Liverpool.
Working horses have been part of the story of Liv ... more
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£49.95 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781915292483 | ISBN 10: 1915292484
"I am astonished at the amount of research which you've put into this book, and written with such a lightness of touch."(Peter Elson, Blue Coat School Development Officer)
"Thank you so much another wonderful production on a par with your book on ... more
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£15.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781398109506 | ISBN 10: 1398109509
Published in association with the Museum of Liverpool, this book explores 20 significant archaeological digs on Merseyside and what they uncovered.
The archaeology of Merseyside is extremely rich and varied. Humans have been modifying th ... more
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£24.99 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781914408892 | ISBN 10: 1914408896
Early Victorian Grassendale was the home of farmers, labourers, clerics and wealthy Liverpool merchants. Discover their personal histories and how a Liverpool suburb was born. Read the area's 'back story', from medieval monks to post-Reformation recu ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781912631360 | ISBN 10: 1912631369
The Welsh in Liverpool: A Remarkable Story by D. Ben Rees is the culmination of decades worth of research into the unique history of the contribution made by the Welsh in Liverpool and Merseyside.Â
D. Ben Rees said:Â
“I’m glad to be able ... more
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£15.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781445695938 | ISBN 10: 1445695936
This book brings to life a selection of the most notorious, and grimmest, murders and other crimes in and around Liverpool from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries.
The tales include ‘Fire in the Menagerie’, ‘Mu ... more
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£5.00 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786454690 | ISBN 10: 1786454696
"My name is Dave Clay, born in Toxteth, Liverpool UK. I am the author of numerous works depicting the Liverpool Black experience.Â
Made possible by donations from the Liverpool Black community (via GoFundMe), Liverpool City Council, Heritage De ... more
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£12.00 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781999803827 | ISBN 10: 1999803825
Local teacher, journalist and Irish language enthusiast, Tony Birtill, tells the fascinating history of the Irish language in Liverpool over the past 200 years and examines the Irish language vocabulary and speech patterns still in use in present day ... more
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£21.95 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781789621631 | ISBN 10: 1789621631
Bluecoat is a unique and much-loved Liverpool institution, its oldest city centre building. This book tells the fascinating story of its transformation from charity school to contemporary arts centre, the UK’s first. Its early 18th century origins ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781916278448 | ISBN 10: 1916278442
Liverpool was once one of the greatest cities in the British empire but it no longer feels like it is in England, if it ever did. It had retreated as a significant port after the Second World War and by 1979, it was already on the brink. What it need ... more
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£25.00 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781909976719 | ISBN 10: 1909976717
The notorious Cameo Cinema murder case of 1949 is one of Britain's legal cause celebres. But for over half a century the convictions of two young men, George Kelly and Charles Connolly, went unchallenged, until - following publication of The Cameo Co ... more
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£19.95 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786942173 | ISBN 10: 1786942178
Liverpool Beyond the Brink is a fascinating commentary on the economic decline that caused the physical, social and political fragmentation of the imperial city during the 1970s and the efforts since then to revive and reconnect it.
It char ... more
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£6.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781910580387 | ISBN 10: 1910580384
In 1919, race riots in Liverpool culminated in the racist murder of Bermudian seaman, Charles Wotten, chased from a boarding house, thrown into the dock and pelted with stones until he drowned. This tragic event took place against a backdrop of racia ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781445671956 | ISBN 10: 1445671956
The thriving city of Liverpool has become particularly well known over the last century for its maritime industry, contributions to sport and, of course, its legendary musical heritage. However, this city has a history that stretches back hundreds of ... more
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£21.00 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781526132963 | ISBN 10: 1526132966
The city of Liverpool had frequently been prone to industrial unrest for most of its recent history, but it was the dawn of Thatcher and the sanctioning of neoliberal economic strategies which made Liverpool a nucleus of resistance against the encroa ... more
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£6.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781843595205 | ISBN 10: 1843595206
Speke Hall is a precious survival from the Tudor age - one of the most important timber-framed buildings in the north of England. Neglected during most of the eighteenth century, Speke was restored in the 1850s by Richard Watt, who filled its pannel ... more
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£10.00 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780954207755 | ISBN 10: 0954207750
Dockers set the pace for all the gains in wages and conditions during the 1940s and 50s. Most of their battles, against their bosses, the government and sometimes their own union, were led by rank and file committees. Harry Constable was one of their ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781445666662 | ISBN 10: 1445666669
Liverpool City Centre History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this famous old port city. Local author Ian Collard guides us through the streets and alleyways, showing how its famous landmarks used to look and how they†... more
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£19.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781781383179 | ISBN 10: 1781383170
Liverpool Sectarianism: the rise and demise is a fascinating study that considers the causes and effects of sectarianism in Liverpool, how and why sectarian tensions subsided in the city and what sectarianism was in a Liverpool context, as well as of ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780091955625 | ISBN 10: 0091955629
On 15 April 1989 the world witnessed one of the worst football disasters occur at the Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield: 96 people were crushed to death and another 766 injured in what later was admitted to be caused by a shocking failure by police.
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£15.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781445663227 | ISBN 10: 1445663228
The mid-1800s witnessed a mass exodus from the Pennine ‘Dales’ as the then latest generation of farmers and miners sought a new life in the New World. However, many of these found a new life for themselves a bit closer to home – they became Liv ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9783864605734 | ISBN 10: 3864605733
This book on Liverpool offers the reader many things: a comprehensive social and cultural history; an insider travel guide; an analysis of the city's people and the places they inhabit; the gripping tale of the Beatles in their Liverpool home and an ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781445646947 | ISBN 10: 1445646943
Liverpool has a deeply chequered past. As the second city of the Empire, she was a leading light in the influential story of Victorian Britain. This northern metropolis has thrived as a maritime port and has been home to a vast melting pot of people ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781445634869 | ISBN 10: 1445634864
"Hillsborough will be remembered as one of the biggest injustices of the twentieth century, because those who were there to protect the public turned against them in their hour of need. The power of print media was at its absolute peak at that time, ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781445648866 | ISBN 10: 1445648865
Liverpool’s proud past can be well summed up by its headlines. Local author Daniel K. Longman delves into the archives of the Liverpool Echo to discover the events and personalities that have made the city what it is today. From the dramatic effects ... more
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£2.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781910580073 | ISBN 10: 1910580074
"These memories of Granby Street chronicle the passion and importance of Liverpool's diverse cultural heritage. From stories of poverty, hardship, displacement and isolation, to those of entrepreneurialism, settlement and community, the overall tone ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781445640532 | ISBN 10: 1445640538
When you ask most people about Liverpool, you could be forgiven for thinking that the city is only famous for its maritime history, its two successful football teams or for being the birthplace of The Beatles – but there is so much more to this amazi ... more
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£9.99 hardback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780750962933 | ISBN 10: 0750962933
This fantastic collection of true tales celebrates the strange and curious secrets of Merseyside’s history. The fifty stories inside – from the lion in the wheelbarrow on the tightrope to the twelve young women ‘smothered by the incurable malady they ... more
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£15.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781445642604 | ISBN 10: 1445642603
Liverpool was once the epitome of 'the city with a pub on every corner', but no longer. As social habits and communities continue to radically change, hundreds of pubs continue to disappear annually, and mostly without trace except in memories. Howev ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781845029623 | ISBN 10: 1845029623
Now world famous for football and music, in the nineteenth century Liverpool had a very different reputation. One of the greatest sports in the world, and Europe's western gateway to the Atlantic, Liverpool's emerging wealth and prosperity brought wi ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781445639895 | ISBN 10: 1445639890
Popular history will tell the tale of how the steam locomotive came to dominate Victorian Britain but while the steam railway died out in the 1960s, the electric railway was already a success story and one that would not only endure but dominate rail ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781445637600 | ISBN 10: 144563760x
As one of Britain’s largest cities, Liverpool was heavily targeted during the two world wars. Many residents of Merseyside lost their lives in the conflict, both in active combat and as a result of hardships on the Home Front. In this book, author An ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780349138565 | ISBN 10: 0349138567
The sensational murder trial of Florence Maybrick that gripped Victorian society.
In the summer of 1889, young Southern belle Florence Maybrick stood trial for the alleged arsenic poisoning of her much older husband, Liverpool cotton merchant James ... more
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£18.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781445637570 | ISBN 10: 144563757x
The unique tale of the great port and city of ‘Leverpul’ begins in 1207; it does not even appear in William the Conqueror’s Domesday Book of 1086. Liverpool was created by the belligerent English monarch King John. Within sixty years of the end of th ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781781380000 | ISBN 10: 1781380007
Long before the arrival of the 'Empire Windrush' after the Second World War, Liverpool was widely known for its polyglot population, its boisterous 'sailortown' and cosmopolitan profile of transients, sojourners and settlers. Regarding Britain as the ... more
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£4.95 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781909486041 | ISBN 10: 1909486043
Beginning life as a tiny town on the banks of the Mersey, flanked by a castle and the adjoining ‘Pool’, Liverpool has grown into a city of worldwide fame with many fine streets and a magnificent waterfront.
It is a city with an unrivalled reputatio ... more
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£24.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781846318634 | ISBN 10: 1846318637
In May 1983, in the wake of her victory in the Falklands, Mrs Thatcher won the second of her three general election victories. Liverpool, going not for the first or last time against the grain, elected a Labour council that vowed to be different. In ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781780911205 | ISBN 10: 1780911203
This book of Liverpool walks is a guidebook to the city's odd corners, and a practical handbook of urban exploration. Â Nearly eight centuries of history have left their mark on Liverpool in street names and stories, from the breezy hill at Everton ... more
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£19.95 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781904380801 | ISBN 10: 1904380808
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A spell-binding account of an appalling miscarriage of j ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780752465708 | ISBN 10: 0752465708
Take a photographic journey into Liverpool’s often overlooked local, craft and advertising history. This intriguing book profiles hand-painted advertising from across the city and investigates the companies that commissioned the signs that now appear ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780752459011 | ISBN 10: 0752459015
Full of the warmth and excitement of growing up in the 1950s, awakening nostalgia for times that seemed cosy and carefree with families at last enjoying peacetime, this book is packed with the experience of school days, playtime, holidays, toys, game ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781445604145 | ISBN 10: 1445604140
The Port of Liverpool handles more container trade with the United States than any other port in the UK and now also serves more than 100 other non-EU destinations, from China to Africa and the Middle East, and from Australia to South America. Liverp ... more
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£34.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781846317002 | ISBN 10: 1846317002
In the nineteenth century Liverpool gained an unenviable reputation as the most crime-ridden place in the country. Dock theft, alcohol-related crime, prostitution, sectarian violence, a high level of female offending and armies of juvenile thieves ma ... more
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£19.99 hardback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780857040794 | ISBN 10: 0857040790
The Liverpool of early September 1939 was a thriving port and bustling city of over 800,000 people. World War Two changed this forever. Between the 27th June 1940 and the I0th January 1942 Hitler’s Luftwaffe rained down death and destruction on the c ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781445604138 | ISBN 10: 1445604132
The Pier Head and landing stages have been places where the people of Liverpool have been able to view, participate in and enjoy many of the major maritime celebrations and events of the last hundred years. It is the city’s equivalent to the Sydney O ... more
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£19.50 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781904380726 | ISBN 10: 1904380727
The true story of Liverpool’s Cameo Cinema murders vividly demonstrates the need to guard against police corruption and legal manipulation.
George Kelly was hanged in 1950 for shooting dead two men early in 1949: the manager of the Cameo ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781908457059 | ISBN 10: 1908457058
A fascinating record of the way in which Liverpool was represented in Picture Post
magazine, with many previously unpublished images.
Superbly illustrated, the book contains all the main articles that were written about the city. ... more
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£9.99 hardback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780752460062 | ISBN 10: 0752460064
The Little Book of Liverpool is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information which no-one will want to be without. Here we find out about the most unusual crimes and punishments, eccent ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780752465517 | ISBN 10: 0752465511
Here is the LOATHSOME, LURID and DOWNRIGHT LAMENTABLE history of Liverpool!
Beginning with the mysteries of the Druids and featuring astonishing tales of bloodshed, battles and the Black Death, Viking assaults, Victorian gangland riots, ... more
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£18.65 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781846316470 | ISBN 10: 1846316472
Uncontrollable, anarchic, separate and alienated from mainstream England, the Liverpool of popular imagination is a hotbed of radicalism and creativity. But is that reputation really justified?
Starting in 1911, a year which saw a warship o ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781445604121 | ISBN 10: 1445604124
Although Liverpool has existed as a port since the thirteenth century, it wasn’t until the seventeenth century that it truly began to grow on the profits of trade with America, importing sugar from the West Indies and Virginia tobacco and exporting t ... more
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£27.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781846316685 | ISBN 10: 1846316685
Published to mark the 30th anniversary of the street disturbances that took place in Liverpool 8 in 1981, a time in which Liverpool was at the forefront of events that also rocked other British cities and communities including Brixton and Birmingham, ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780755317165 | ISBN 10: 0755317165
Our Liverpool is an oral history about the real Liverpool - about the city before its slick transformation to European City of Culture and about the spirit that remains at its heart. Here, at last, is Liverpool's grievous and glorious past. And ... more
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£10.00 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781846316838 | ISBN 10: 1846316839
Liverpool gained a unique and notorious reputation during the 19th century for being an abnormally violent and criminal place. The Monster Evil intends to explore the historical foundations of this stigmatization: were the fears real or an invention ... more
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£24.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781846315039 | ISBN 10: 1846315034
Liverpool was unique among English towns in the rate of its commercial development from the late seventeenth century. Liverpool 1660-1750 provides the first significant detailed published study of the social and political structure of the town during ... more
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£29.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781846312441 | ISBN 10: 1846312442
Newly available in paperback, this edition is an important volume of international significance, drawing together contributions from some of the leading scholars in the field and edited by a team headed by the acclaimed historian David Richardson.&nb ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780752449418 | ISBN 10: 0752449419
Liverpool in Old Photographs brings to life the history of a famous port and city over the past century.
Concentrating on its varied shipping and unparalleled waterfront, its historic streets and buildings of outstanding architectural intere ... more
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£15.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781848680586 | ISBN 10: 1848680589
Overshadowing the port of Chester, Liverpool grew in size from the 1800s on sugar and slavery. Expanding over the following two centuries, the port has grown to take over part of the other side of the Mersey, with docks at Birkenhead, Ellesmere Port ... more
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£24.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781846311505 | ISBN 10: 1846311500
The story of Cain's, like the story of Liverpool, is one of passion, ambition and graft. It takes in immigration, global trade, terrible poverty and vast wealth.
In just two generations the Cain family went from the slums of Irish Liverpool ... more
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£12.95 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781846311284 | ISBN 10: 1846311284
In this highly personal encounter with his native city Nicholas Murray blends literary descriptions of Liverpool across the centuries with his own memories of a 1960s Liverpool childhood to create an original and nuanced portrait of the character of ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781905512379 | ISBN 10: 1905512376
Ken's first book, Dockers and Detectives, has now been re-published by Five Leaves Press. This early study of twentieth-century working class reading and writing in Britain helped revive a number of literary reputations, such as those of Alexander Ba ... more
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£44.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781846311086 | ISBN 10: 184631108x
Liverpool in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was a great cultural melting pot and processing point of migration from Europe to the USA. The Irish in particular crossed to Liverpool in their tens of thousands before setting out across the ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781903854600 | ISBN 10: 1903854601
Victorian Liverpool was a city of abundant wealth and abysmal poverty. By day the broad streets bustled with wealthy merchants making fortunes from the booming dock trade. By ngihtfall they were taken over by fearsome gangs from the foul courtyards a ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781850749905 | ISBN 10: 1850749906
Becher's Brook at Aintree, the legendary Kop at Anfield, the 18th tee at Hoylake - just three hallowed Liverpool landmarks on the map of international sport. But sporting heritage on Merseyside permeates the entire region and its unique cultural lega ... more
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£26.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780415979337 | ISBN 10: 0415979331
With many new photos and an updated introduction, The Day John Met Paul, a critically-acclaimed Beatles book, re-appears in a visually stunning second edition. The book is an hour-by-hour account of the fateful day the two founding Beatles met in Jul ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780955485404 | ISBN 10: 0955485401
Liverpool's Irish Connection is a fascinating collection of Liverpool-Irish biographies. The book includes chapters dedicated to Nurse Agnes Jones, Michael James Whitty, James Muspratt, Percy French, Patrick (Dandy Pat) Byrne and James William Carlin ... more
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£14.95 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781846310355 | ISBN 10: 1846310350
WARNING - this book weighs nearly 2kg & so £5.45 1st class to post to UK addresses.
Ancestry and origin fascinate America. Study of the genealogy of this rich and diverse nation establishes a seldom recognized fact: the importance of Liverpool in ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781846310102 | ISBN 10: 1846310105
Liverpool stands outside the main narrative frameworks of modern British history, located as it is at the intersection of competing cultural, economic and geo-political formations. Repudiated by some as as an external imposition, an unmerited stigma ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780752418353 | ISBN 10: 0752418351
Personal memories of ordinary people give us a unique and powerful view of life in the past. This collection of reminiscences of Merseyside people was selected by Diana Pulson from the many interviews recorded by produced Ev Draper for a series ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780752406404 | ISBN 10: 075240640x
This book of photographs not only depicts the cosmopolitan face of Liverpool but also traces the many changes that Liverpudlians have experienced over the last century. This isn't just a story based around grand buildings, it's about the ordinary peo ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9781903204535 | ISBN 10: 1903204534
A delightful collection of black and white photographs of bygone days in Liverpool. 'Turn the pages of this book and sample a little of the atmosphere of a living and vibrant, ever changing City. Enjoy, and possibly regret, the things that have been ... more
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£6.00 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780954207700 | ISBN 10: 095420770x
Edward Rushton was undoubtedly a heroic figure who should be given a place in Liverpool's history of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He was an uncompromising opponent of slavery, who at the age of nineteen became blind. He wrote poetr ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780752422596 | ISBN 10: 0752422596
This collection of original material and photographs charts the history of this proud and well-supported club, from its early days, when the tema was still playing at Stanley Park, through to 1946. It illustrates the highlights of the period of the c ... more
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£12.99 paperback (1996) - ISBN 13: 9780752406244 | ISBN 10: 0752406248
This collection of over 200 old photographs of Bootle is a fascianting archive of a lost age. The photgraphs cover a period from the 1890s right up to the 1970s and show in detail how dramatic have been the changes in both the appearance of the area ... more
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£12.99 paperback (1995) - ISBN 13: 9780853231998 | ISBN 10: 0853231990
A collection of eyewitness accounts from supporters, players, officials and police of the day in 1989 when 96 Liverpool supporters were crushed to death at an FA Cup semi-final. Royalties from sales of the book go to charities designated by the Hills ... more
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£4.99 paperback (1985) - ISBN 13: 9780901367327 | ISBN 10: 090136732x
Facsimile reprint of a book first published in 1884, at a time when the British slave trade had been dead for more than 50 years, but many of the slave traders and captains who commanded the slave ships would still have been alive. (Which is probably ... more
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