35 published articles
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Article No. 23 · People & Communities · 13 min read
More than 370 years of Liverpool Quaker history, from Hackins Hey and William Rathbone IV to district nursing, Arundel Avenue and School Lane.
Article No. 22 · Culture & Everyday Life · 14 min read
Inside Liverpool’s pioneering 1822 St John’s Market: its iron-roofed hall, everyday traders and shoppers, 1964 demolition, and James Hamilton Hay’s remarkable 1907 view.
Article No. 21 · Culture & Everyday Life · 14 min read
How skiffle, clubs, dance halls, Hamburg, Mersey Beat and the Riverboat Shuffles created the Liverpool music scene that changed popular culture.
Article No. 20 · Liverpool Connections · 11 min read
How a quiet Liverpool street became a centre of Confederate finance, naval procurement and espionage during the American Civil War.
Article No. 19 · Liverpool Connections · 7 min read
The gateway to Liverpool Connections: unexpected links between Liverpool and ships, people, migration, music, technology and events around the world.
Article No. 18 · Business & Industry · 13 min read
How Liverpool transformed the tidal Pool into the world’s first commercial enclosed wet dock in 1715 — and began its rise as a global port.
Article No. 17 · Business & Industry · 12 min read
How Liverpool and Manchester’s 1830 railway helped establish the modern railway age — from Edge Hill and Rainhill to the death of Liverpool MP William Huskisson.
Article No. 16 · Culture & Everyday Life · 14 min read
John Speed’s 1610 map captures a tiny “Lerpoole” of around 1,000 people, surrounded by separate villages, rivers, forests and the historic West Derby Hundred.
Article No. 15 · Business & Industry · 9 min read
How Martins Bank used a Ferranti Pegasus II at Derby House to pioneer daily computerised branch bookkeeping in Liverpool in the early 1960s.
Article No. 14 · People & Communities · 11 min read
A modern migration story shaping Liverpool through language, community organisations, Nowruz, faith, food and the lives being built in the city today.
Article No. 13 · Culture & Everyday Life · 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.
