Author: Trevor Davies

Dorothy Kuya, Bernie Grant, and the Novel I Didn’t Expect to Find Her In

Dorothy Kuya, Bernie Grant, and the Novel I Didn’t Expect to Find Her In

Trevor Davies September 17, 2026 No Comments

While I was researching Melly Strikes Back, I came across a name I hadn’t been looking for: Dorothy Kuya. She appears in the novel as herself — a real Liverpool…

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The Archive on the Dock Road

The Archive on the Dock Road

Trevor Davies September 10, 2026 No Comments

I grew up in a city that never stopped telling itself stories. Most of them weren’t written down in an archive. They were told in pubs, on picket lines, at…

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Care Is Work. The Pictures Say Otherwise.

Care Is Work. The Pictures Say Otherwise.

Trevor Davies September 3, 2026 1 Comment

A girl carrying her brother, captioned as devotion, is a picture of the reason she is not at school — with the reason edited out. A new free course for…

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The Long View: Writing at Seventy-One

The Long View: Writing at Seventy-One

Trevor Davies September 2, 2026 1 Comment

Twenty-six years in Harare, a return to Liverpool, and what age actually gives a novelist: not wisdom, but duration.

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Gender Inequality in Southern Africa: What the SADC Protocol Gives a Novelist

Gender Inequality in Southern Africa: What the SADC Protocol Gives a Novelist

Trevor Davies September 2, 2026 1 Comment

Gender inequality in Southern Africa is legislated against more thoroughly than most readers assume, and still not reaching women. What the SADC Protocol, the national statutes and the Gender Links…

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The Modern Slavery Act 2015: What I Learned Writing Red Dress

The Modern Slavery Act 2015: What I Learned Writing Red Dress

Trevor Davies September 1, 2026 3 Comments

Red Dress is published today. Half of the children the UK identifies as potential modern slavery victims are there through criminal exploitation. Here is what the Modern Slavery Act 2015…

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A Road That Goes Nowhere: Why Red Dress Had to Be Set in Liverpool

A Road That Goes Nowhere: Why Red Dress Had to Be Set in Liverpool

Trevor Davies September 1, 2026 2 Comments

Red Dress, the first Byrne and Walsh novel, is published today. Here is why the city is the reason it exists.

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How I Write as a Pantser: Why Research and Iteration Changes Everything

How I Write as a Pantser: Why Research and Iteration Changes Everything

Trevor Davies August 26, 2026 No Comments

I write as a pantser. For years, that meant abandoned projects and a drawer full of unfinished first drafts[1]. The pantser writing process felt free, yes. Exciting, even. But it…

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Ten Pound Poms: What the Scheme Was and When It Ran

Ten Pound Poms: What the Scheme Was and When It Ran

Trevor Davies August 26, 2026 No Comments

The Assisted Passage Migration Scheme, 1945 to 1982. Ten pounds an adult, children free, two years or repay the fare. Over a million went, a quarter came home, and half…

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Step Outside Your Own Story And Be a Better Writer

Step Outside Your Own Story And Be a Better Writer

Trevor Davies August 26, 2026 No Comments

Writing characters and narratives from cultures different to your own pushes you to question assumptions, expand your understanding, and develop deeper empathy. The process transforms not just your writing but…

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How Migration Made Liverpool a Music City

How Migration Made Liverpool a Music City

Trevor Davies August 26, 2026 No Comments

The Irish, the Welsh, the Chinese, the West African and Caribbean seamen, the Cunard crews — and the Liverpool 8 album a record company would not let a Black band…

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Writing Workshops in Merseyside: Why Every Writer Needs a Creative Community

Writing Workshops in Merseyside: Why Every Writer Needs a Creative Community

Trevor Davies August 26, 2026 No Comments

Writing workshops transform the solitary craft into a shared journey of growth and creativity. Writers indeed spend countless hours alone with their words, but this isolation can breed loneliness and…

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How to Write About Gukurahundi: A Sensitive Guide for Fiction Authors

How to Write About Gukurahundi: A Sensitive Guide for Fiction Authors

Trevor Davies August 23, 2026 No Comments

Writing about Gukurahundi demands both courage and immense responsibility. I’m Trevor Davies, and I understand the weight you carry when approaching such painful history. The massacres in Matabeleland represent one…

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The Liverpool Dockers’ Dispute, 1995–98

The Liverpool Dockers’ Dispute, 1995–98

Trevor Davies August 22, 2026 No Comments

It began with five men and an overtime payment and ended twenty-eight months later with nobody reinstated. What happened, why the union could not make it official, and why it…

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What Dylan’s ‘Baby Blue’ Reveals About Apartheid: Songs About Racial Inequality That Changed History

What Dylan’s ‘Baby Blue’ Reveals About Apartheid: Songs About Racial Inequality That Changed History

Trevor Davies August 18, 2026 No Comments

What You Need to Know Music holds immense power against oppression. Melodies became weapons that exposed racial inequality and built opposition across the globe. • Hugh Masekela took Dylan’s “Baby…

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Who Killed Herbert Chitepo?

Who Killed Herbert Chitepo?

Trevor Davies August 15, 2026 No Comments

No one has ever been convicted. A Zambian commission blamed ZANU’s own high command; Rhodesian intelligence officers claimed the killing as theirs. The evidence for each, fifty years on.

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What I Learned About How to Empower Our Youth After Working With Young Creators

What I Learned About How to Empower Our Youth After Working With Young Creators

Trevor Davies April 12, 2026 No Comments

I’m Trevor Davies, and working with young creators changed everything I thought I knew about empowering our youth. They don’t need our pity or patronising programmes. They need genuine opportunities,…

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The Orange Lodge in Liverpool

The Orange Lodge in Liverpool

Trevor Davies April 11, 2026 No Comments

Liverpool had the largest Orange presence of any city in England, and for a century and a half the Twelfth of July was a bigger day here than anywhere outside…

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The Vibrant Pubs of Scottie Road in the 1970s

The Vibrant Pubs of Scottie Road in the 1970s

Trevor Davies April 10, 2026 No Comments

The 1970s marked a significant era for Scottie Road, a bustling thoroughfare in Liverpool that was not just a street but a vibrant community hub. Known officially as Scotland Road,…

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Adrian Henri, Roger McGough and Brian Patten: The Poets Who Shared Our Streets

Adrian Henri, Roger McGough and Brian Patten: The Poets Who Shared Our Streets

Trevor Davies April 6, 2026 No Comments

Three prizewinners from Alsop, a Saturday morning at BBC Radio Merseyside, and baked beans at Reece's with Roger McGough and Adrian Henri.

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