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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 many of the ships that visited or were based in the port. They produced thousands of paintings which are now often the only surviving visual record of those ships. In this lecture, Tony Tibbles will look at who these artists were and the paintings they produced. Some, like Samuel Walters and

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 been returned to me as members have moved house. I would ask that any member who changes address update their profile on the website. If you are not sure how to do this I am happy to help. Sue McGuire – Membership Secretary

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 at Q-Park Hanover Street by using the promocode QUAKERSLV when pre-booking through the website Q-Park)There is no charge for this talk but, for catering purposes, it would be helpful if you could notify rogero2949@gmail.com if you wish to attend.As with all our events, you don’t need to be a member

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 is one of  72 similar events which have been held across the UK in the last 12 months and this is the final event that  will be held before the launch of the online archive in June 2024.  Wartime memories to be held digitally for future generations Precious stories that

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 old photograph of the Changing Rooms? This Spring, as part of our development of the old changing rooms (formerly the Estate’s animal husbandry building) into a Therapy and Wellbeing Centre, we are embarking on a National Lottery Heritage Fund project to find out more about the park’s past, of which

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 is honest and detailed about the work of the church. . He was clearly aware of the different communities that changed the city during his life as a clergyman, and had a great sympathy for them, and the poor accommodation in which they frequently lived. He also provides critical assessments

Liverpool Libraries have asked us to make members aware of a project which will be hosted by Liverpool Central Library and across some of the branch libraries this spring. Volunteers for the project are welcomed. Four creatives/artists will work with four (pre-identified) community groups -across Merseyside – to develop two visual art works that help us to tell the story of one of our seven Liverpool Irish Famine Trail plaque sites and our Irish Famine Memorial. We are not prescriptive about what these art works will be, but they could involve a recorded theatre or dance piece, animation, tapestry, collage, painting, sculpture, film

A new book review has been added to our website. Liverpool. A Memoir of Words by Tony Crowley is reviewed by Graham Jones. ‘Thought provoking and …delightfully engaging’ this book gives ‘Tony’s insights into the words and sounds and memories’ of a world ‘frequently humorous, occasionally exciting and dangerous’. Information about a discounted price for Liverpool History Society members is given in the review.