25th Annual General Meeting
Please note that, as members have been advised by email, the 2025-26 Annual General Meeting will be held at 10.15 am on Tuesday 19th May in the Adelphi Hotel. It will be followed by the talk on the Shakespeare North playhouse at 11.00. Please find below links to the papers for the meeting. https://liverpoolhistorysociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Notification-to-Members-AGM-2026.docx https://liverpoolhistorysociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/AGM-2026-Agenda.docx […]
25th Anniversary Celebrations
Download the above flyer as a printable PDF Join us for a full day of talks reviewing the period when Liverpool occupied so much of the nation’s attention in sport, music, and culture. Our programme includes: Our speakers Phil Oates. Via his website www.liverpoolmiscellany.blogspot.com Phil hosts an enormous amount of cultural history relating to Liverpool. […]
The Orange Order in Liverpool
Birkenhead Park – the pioneering People’s Park
Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne in Liverpool
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 […]
