LHS Talks

The Long Company

17/11/2026 10:30 am

Speaker: Gareth Winrow

The Long Company feature in Gareth Winrow’s book about his own family history. They were a band of criminals who terrified Prescot in...

Tracks to the past. Reconstructing the Liverpool and Manchester Railway

19/01/2027 10:30 am

Speaker: Ed Farrell

For seventeen years, I have been combining art and historic research to recreate landscapes of lost Liverpool from 1675 on. This talk presents...

The First Flight to Ireland 1910

16/02/2027 10:30 am

Speaker: Eddie Little

In 1910, a pioneering aviator achieved the first manned flight to Ireland, crossing the Irish Sea in a fragile early aeroplane. Battling wind,...

Brought Here Like Swine: Liverpool and the Great Famine Migration

20/04/2027 10:30 am

Speaker: Marie Riley

In 1846, mounting public concern about the vast numbers of Irish poor arriving in Liverpool led stipendiary magistrate Edward Rushton to request that police be...

Liverpool’s lost nightclubs 1976-1984: The New Merseybeat

18/05/2027 10:30 am

Speaker: Vincent Clarke

In this talk I’ll be exploring the music venues of the period and outlining the importance of Liverpool’s cultural renaissance during the somewhat overlooked scene...

Women in Merseyside’s Political Organisations, 1890-1920

20/05/2027 11:00 am

Speaker: Professor Geoff Gill

Public mistrust in the medical profession is not new. We describe a series of street riots that took place in the city of Liverpool in...