By Danny Humphreys and Yvonne Siner This fascinating book is a great celebration of the Liver Birds in the City of Liverpool, covering the history, geography and architecture of our beautiful City. The book contains at least 280 pictures of Liver Birds, and covers the areas from Garston to Crosby.
The Society is delighted to announce the programme of events across the days as follows – please see attached link. https://snr.org.uk/snr-events/snr-agm-and-conference
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 […]
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
