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ARTICLES
Why Not Drown Liverpool? Welsh water for an English city
What were you hoping could still be saved on 21st…
Liverpool Firsts
1007 – First mention of the River Mersey, in a…
800 Years of History
In 2007, Liverpool was 800 years old! No medieval buildings…
Events
The Social Survey of Merseyside by Liverpool University 1929-34
Dr Michael Lambert – ‘The Social Survey of Merseyside by…
Reviews of Past Talks
Robertson Gladstone: Demerara and Back 1828-1829
Dr Janet Hollinshead – Friday, 8 April 2022 from 11:30…
Key Events in Liverpool Newspaper History in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.
Dr Nick Foggo, on Friday 11th March 2022 Dr Foggo…
The Art Collections of the Liverpool Royal Institution and the Gregson Memorial Institute.
Andrew Williams, B.A., on Friday 11 February 2022 Our speaker,…
MEMORIES OF WAR
Dig For Victory - Sheila Binks (nee Robinson)
I was seven when war was declared in September 1939.…
Grandma's War - Brenda Murray (nee McElroy)
As prepared for my grandchildren. I was fifteen and a…
The Liverpool Experience - Joe Bowers
I was born and grew up in Manchester from 1921…
NOTICE BOARD
Frank Boyce
We are very sorry to announce that Frank Boyce, a…
Austin Varney
The sad news has reached us that Austin Varney, one…
A Tale of Two Liverpool Synagogues
Two senior members and a rabbi present the Princes Road…
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 Hope Street Bodies in the Cellar Scandal by John Gannon, which appeared in the 2021 Journal.
An instruction to take three heavy wooden barrels of ‘Bitter Salts’ to George’s Dock for shipment to Edinburgh was a lucrative hire for carter George Leech. But these arrangements were far from what they seemed…
The full story can be read in the Journal.