The Long Company

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 the mid 19th century, think Peaky Blinders with a Lancashire accent.  This is their story.

Our speaker: Author, researcher and public speaker, Gareth worked in Istanbul for twenty years where he was a Professor of International Relations.  Recently, he has focused on local, social and family history.  His latest book about his own family is titled: ‘Past Lives, Forgotten Stories: Cobbled Patchworks of History’ (The Book Guild, 2026).