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ARTICLES
Why Not Drown Liverpool? Welsh water for an English city
Events
Women in Merseyside's Political Organisations, 1890-1920
Reviews of Past Talks
The Social Survey of Merseyside 1929 – 1934
Robertson Gladstone: Demerara and Back 1828-1829
Key Events in Liverpool Newspaper History in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.
MEMORIES OF WAR
Remembering those from Dingle Liverpool, who served and died in World War I and World War II.
NOTICE BOARD
Celebrating the legacy of Giles Hilbert Scott
150th anniversary of Princes Road Synagogue
Herbert Rowse and the Architecture of Liverpool - Walking Tour
Story of the month
Every month we offer a tantalising glimpse of just a few of the riveting tales that await the reader in Journals published each year since 2002.
This month we feature ‘The Sinking of the Alabama and the Quest of Mary Elizabeth Low’ by John Hussey in Journal 22.
Liverpool had strong political, emotional and financial connections and sympathies with the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War (1861-1865). These strong links made Liverpool the obvious choice for organising supplies and aid for the Confederacy. A fleet of Confederate blockade-runners and naval cruisers were to be built on Merseyside to help combat the Union supply ships. Built by Laird brothers the CSS ALABAMA in the course of 22 months boarded 447 ships of all nations, captured 75 Union vessels and destroyed them, took 2,000 prisoners, sank the Union warship HATTERAS, and engaged the U.S.S. KEARSARGE which was her final act.