Budding author inspired by Liverpool’s history
It’s great to hear of young people studying researching and being inspired to write about Liverpool. From the Docks to the Stage is a work of historical fiction set in post-war Liverpool. The story follows Patrick Flynn, a fifteen-year-old boy growing up beside the River Mersey in the late 1950s. When his father, a dock […]
A Load of Cobblers: Tying up Liverpool’s leprechauns – A revisionist History
Formby Lifeboat Station
Liverpool Record Office
The Private Life of a Student Nurse – Broadgreen Hospital School of Nursing 1979 – 1981
New book from our LHS Events Secretary Chris Jones. This is the unabashedly sentimental memoir of a man drawn into the nursing profession between 1979 and 1981. When Broadgreen Hospital in Liverpool still had a nursing school it recounts the story of his recruitment and adaptation to the life changing experiences he faced in the three […]
New book – A Workers’ History of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal
Members may be interested in this new publication from the Leeds and Liverpool Canal Society. Following the First World War the Leeds & Liverpool Canal Company decided to close the Bradford Canal and stop providing a commercial transportation service. Benjamin Walls, who like his father was an employee of the Company, bought two boats from […]
Mrs Brown is a Man and a Brother!
History Study Days – Knowsley Hall
Knowsley Hall have four History Study Days coming up. 3rd July – Derby Women – Celebrating the women in the House of Stanley 4th July- Independence day Celebration – on the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence 15th October – The Life and Legacy of the 13th earl of Derby and his […]
Book signing and talk by Liverpool WW2 saga writer, Eliza Morton
Liverpool History Society member Liz Heery, writing under the name Eliza Morton, will be signing copies of her new book ‘Betsy’s War’ at the Western Approaches. During the event Liz will talk about her journey to getting published and writing historical fiction. She recently flew a vintage Tiger Moth as part of her research for […]
Growing Knowsley’s Future
The project Growing Knowsley’s Future has received funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund to explore the agricultural history of Knowsley to create an exhibition which celebrates this history, while also looking to a better food future for Knowsley. As part of the project a group is working with theKnowsley Archives to research and find […]