1 May, 2024, 5:30pm Maritime Museum, Liverpool This event is free and all are welcome. Tony Tibbles will deliver the lecture on ‘Liverpool’s ship portrait artists’. Since the late eighteenth century Liverpool has been home, permanently or temporarily, to more than seventy artists whose principal activity was painting portraits of
The annual journal has been distributed and most members should have received it by now. I hope you are enjoying it and I’m sure the editor and contributors would welcome any feedback. If you have not received your journal please let me know by emailing lhsmembership878@gmail.com A few journals have
Part 15 of Graham Jones’s excellent series has been added to the website and can be accessed by clicking on the link below. https://liverpoolhistorysociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Walking-on-Water-Street-part-15-for-website.pdf
From September 2024 there will be a brilliant programme of events worth watching out for to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the synagogue. Please see the programme below. https://liverpoolhistorysociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/LOHC150-Poster.03.03.2024.pdf
Please note that this event on Saturday 2nd March about which members were previously notified has been moved to Liverpool Central Library (same day and time). Full information can be found here . This is due to the strike at the Museum of Liverpool.
LHS members are invited to attend the relaunch of the Liverpool Regional Group of the Victorian Society.50 Years in Building Conservation, an illustrated talk by Ken MothWednesday 20th March at 6.00 for 6.30pmQuaker Meeting House, 22 School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BT(Liverpool Quakers’ customers will receive a 20% discount on parking
We have posted the results of the membership survey we undertook last year on the website. You can see this by clicking on the link below. The LHS Committee are pleased that on the whole members appear to feel that membership is both enjoyable and good value and we have
Matthew Kidd Project Manager for Their Finest Hour, a Second World War digital archive project based at the University of Oxford has asked to to ensure our members are aware of the following event. The project is organising a ‘Digital Collection Day’ event at the Museum of Liverpool on Saturday 2 March 2024 .
This message is from Growing Sudley CiC Do you enjoy local history, researching, and digging up stories?Does your family have a connection to the original walled garden?Do you have old photographs of the Sudley Estate?Did you use the changing rooms?Do you know Ray B ’74 from the graffiti on this
A review of Canon Neville Black’s Memoir ‘Forty Years of Ministry in Liverpool’ has been added to our Book Review pages. Canon Neville Black writes about his long local career. Starting life in Bootle, his ministry has taken him into many parts of Liverpool. Neville describes some prized friendships and