Rev Canon Neville Black, MBE, 40 Years of Ministry in Liverpool, with a foreword Canon Neville Black writes about his long local career in this quite short (120 pages) book: he startedlife in Bootle, but his ministry has taken him into different parts of Liverpool, from Everton to Toxteth.Neville’s early
Paul Burns, Grassendale – Birth of a Suburb, Green Hey Press, Liverpool, 2021, hardback, 255pp., 77 illustrations, £24.99. ISBN 978-1-914408-89-2 Grassendale – Birth of a Suburb is a fascinating book of ten chapters split into three sections, taking the reader on a journey from the first record around 1260 involving
Tony Crowley, Liverpool. A Memoir of Words, Liverpool University Press, 2023, 224pp., £20. ISBN 978-1-83764-438-4 Liverpool. A Memoir of Words is both a thought-provoking and a delightfully engaging sequel to Tony Crowley’s earlier The Liverpool English Dictionary (2017) which was reviewed in the Society’s Spring 2018 newsletter. Many members will
Author: Adrian AllenPublisher: Liverpool University Press 2022Paperback. 224 pages, over 100 photographs, maps, illustrations etc.Size 240mm x 170mmPrice: £19.99 (LHS members 30% off with code ALLAN30) This is a book of two halves. The first part, the most interesting, deals with the history of Greenbank between 1788 and the end of
Author/Publisher: Graham JonesPaperback: 448 pages, 800 photographs, maps, illustrations etc.Size: 210mm x 265mmPrice: £49.95 (LHS Members – £39.95) Many of our members will be familiar with the Walking on Water Street series of articles written by Graham Jones that appeared in various editions of the Journal from 2012 onwards. However, this book,
A History of the Southport Jewish Community By John Cowell Cazneau Publishing 2019 xvi+751pp ISBN 978-1-5272-4972-1) £29 inc p&p (cheque payable to author) 5 Tinsley Avenue, Southport PR8 6HT southportjewishhistory.co.uk/ Please note: LHS members can purchase this book for as little as £5 by attending a monthly meeting or by contacting
John F. Messner. 264pp. Paperback £18.99 (or from about £15 on Amazon). Whittles Publishing / Glasgow Museums, July 2021. ISBN 9781849954822. You may well ask why are we reviewing a book that is as Scottish as Boris Johnson’s nemesis, Nicola Sturgeon? It transpires that Liverpool pops up at various points
Susan Bennett, published privately, 2020. Susan Bennett’s 470-page book is full of interesting things, as her “anti-heroine” builds up her brothel empire, to make money from the clientele of her brothels, exploiting the girls who had to work in them, but looking after the welfare of her own children, who
Richard Carreño 304pp.19 black and white illustrations. Camino Books, Philadelphia, 2021. Available from Amazon £18.69 hardback. ISBN: 978-1680980394. I consider myself a reasonably well-read amateur Liverpool historian but confess that, until recently, I had never heard of John H McFadden. And, I suspect, neither had any of my fellow local
Isla Broadwell. 2019. 151 pages – photos, prints and maps included. Paperback A4 size. ISBN 9-798639-31730. List price £14.99. Available from Amazon. Kindle Edition also available at £4.99 from Amazon. Isla Broadwell is the three-times great granddaughter of Robert Marsden. It is a personal story of his life as a