https://outinliverpool.co.uk/Liverpool history, heritage and culture—with the evidence kept visible.en-gbSun, 20 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://outinliverpool.co.uk/articles/where-liverpool-shopped-in-1808/https://outinliverpool.co.uk/articles/where-liverpool-shopped-in-1808/Sun, 20 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMTWhere 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. https://outinliverpool.co.uk/articles/what-happened-to-liverpool-jewish-community/https://outinliverpool.co.uk/articles/what-happened-to-liverpool-jewish-community/Sun, 20 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMTFrom 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. https://outinliverpool.co.uk/articles/why-titanic-said-liverpool/https://outinliverpool.co.uk/articles/why-titanic-said-liverpool/Sat, 19 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMTWhy 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. https://outinliverpool.co.uk/articles/the-irish-who-helped-shape-liverpool/https://outinliverpool.co.uk/articles/the-irish-who-helped-shape-liverpool/Sat, 19 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMTHow Irish migrants, famine refugees, workers, priests, women, reformers, journalists and politicians helped shape nineteenth-century Liverpool. https://outinliverpool.co.uk/articles/treaty-of-nanking-liverpool-chinese-community/https://outinliverpool.co.uk/articles/treaty-of-nanking-liverpool-chinese-community/Sat, 19 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMTHow an unequal treaty signed in 1842 helped open the routes that later brought Chinese seafarers, settlers and families to the Mersey. https://outinliverpool.co.uk/articles/liverpool-chinese-seamen-forced-deportations-1946/https://outinliverpool.co.uk/articles/liverpool-chinese-seamen-forced-deportations-1946/Sat, 19 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMTThey did not abandon their families. They were taken from Liverpool. https://outinliverpool.co.uk/articles/liverpool-lime-street-before-the-station/https://outinliverpool.co.uk/articles/liverpool-lime-street-before-the-station/Sat, 19 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMTBefore 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. https://outinliverpool.co.uk/articles/french-prisoners-sold-as-slaves/https://outinliverpool.co.uk/articles/french-prisoners-sold-as-slaves/Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMTFrench prisoners, privateers, prize auctions and Liverpool’s Nelson Monument: investigating the claim that French prisoners were sold into slavery. https://outinliverpool.co.uk/articles/city-of-benares-children-canada/https://outinliverpool.co.uk/articles/city-of-benares-children-canada/Sun, 13 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMTNinety children left Liverpool aboard the City of Benares in September 1940, bound for safety in Canada. Only thirteen survived. https://outinliverpool.co.uk/articles/goree-slave-rings-evidence/https://outinliverpool.co.uk/articles/goree-slave-rings-evidence/Sun, 13 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMTLiverpool’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? https://outinliverpool.co.uk/articles/liverpool-in-1805/https://outinliverpool.co.uk/articles/liverpool-in-1805/Sun, 13 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMTStep 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. https://outinliverpool.co.uk/articles/how-liverpool-got-its-news-in-1808/https://outinliverpool.co.uk/articles/how-liverpool-got-its-news-in-1808/Sun, 13 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMTHow 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. https://outinliverpool.co.uk/articles/ye-hole-in-ye-wall-real-age/https://outinliverpool.co.uk/articles/ye-hole-in-ye-wall-real-age/Sun, 13 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMTA documentary investigation into the real age of Ye Hole in Ye Wall, its Victorian building, mock-Tudor frontage, drinking-house history and twentieth-century name.