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ARTICLES
Why Not Drown Liverpool? Welsh water for an English city
Liverpool Firsts
800 Years of History
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.
Dig For Victory - Sheila Binks (nee Robinson)
Grandma's War - Brenda Murray (nee McElroy)
NOTICE BOARD
In the footsteps of Peter Ellis
Two Liverpool History Society members walk in the footsteps of Liverpool’s elusive architectural genius, Peter Ellis.
Written by Graham Jones and the late Rob Ainsworth, designed by Matthew Duddington and published by the Liverpool History Society, this book traces the life of a local architect from his birth in 1805 on Shaw’s Brow to his death in 1884 at Falkner Square.
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.
Would you rather date rich but ugly. or poor but attractive?
“Tetrum ante omnia vultum”: Before all things, an ugly face.
In this age where ‘Body Shaming’ is rightly frowned upon, it is interesting to look back two hundred years and read how Liverpool people celebrated their unusual looks by joining ‘THE UGLY FACE CLUB’.
Arline Wilson’s article gives a glimpse into the club’s workings, describes some of the members, their behaviours, its rules and regulations as well as where to find the original source material.
Published in our 2008 Journal (No.07)
