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Article No. 13 · Culture & Everyday Life · The Stranger’s Guide No. 12 · 7 min read
Where did Liverpool shop in 1808? The Stranger’s Guide reveals a Georgian retail district spanning Church Street, Lord Street, Castle Street, Paradise Street and the lost Pool Lane.
Article No. 12 · People & Communities · 10 min read
From one of Britain’s largest Jewish communities outside London to a population of around 1,800 today — the story of Jewish Liverpool is one of arrival, prosperity, movement, migration and survival.
Article No. 11 · Maritime & Docks · 7 min read
Why Titanic carried Liverpool on her stern despite never sailing from the Mersey — and how White Star, local crew and the city were tied to the disaster.
Article No. 10 · People & Communities · 11 min read
How Irish migrants, famine refugees, workers, priests, women, reformers, journalists and politicians helped shape nineteenth-century Liverpool.
Article No. 9 · People & Communities · 9 min read
How an unequal treaty signed in 1842 helped open the routes that later brought Chinese seafarers, settlers and families to the Mersey.
Article No. 8 · People & Communities · 11 min read
They did not abandon their families. They were taken from Liverpool.
Article No. 7 · Transport & Railways · 8 min read
Before the trains, the great station roof and St George’s Hall, this was the edge of Liverpool — a landscape of windmills, lime kilns and open ground.
Article No. 6 · Myths & Evidence · 12 min read
French prisoners, privateers, prize auctions and Liverpool’s Nelson Monument: investigating the claim that French prisoners were sold into slavery.
Article No. 5 · War & Remembrance · Short Read · 3 min read
Ninety children left Liverpool aboard the City of Benares in September 1940, bound for safety in Canada. Only thirteen survived.
Article No. 4 · Myths & Evidence · 13 min read
Liverpool’s Goree Piazzas were tied to the slave economy, but what does the evidence really show about the famous story of people chained beneath the arcades?
Article No. 3 · Maritime & Docks · The Stranger’s Guide No. 1 · 5 min read
Step into Liverpool in 1805 through an original Georgian visitor’s guide and discover the docks, streets, buildings and rapidly growing port seen by strangers more than 220 years ago.
Article No. 2 · Culture & Everyday Life · The Stranger’s Guide No. 11 · 7 min read
How did Liverpool get its news in 1808? The Stranger’s Guide reveals five weekly newspapers serving a Georgian port hungry for shipping, politics, commerce and news from around the world.
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