The Vibrant Pubs of Scottie Road in the 1970s
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,…
Journal
Notes from the research behind the books — Liverpool history, the dockers' strikes, Zimbabwe's untold stories, and the music that runs through it all.
Adrian Henri, Roger McGough and Brian Patten: The Poets Who Shared Our Streets
Three prizewinners from Alsop, a Saturday morning at BBC Radio Merseyside, and baked beans at Reece's with Roger McGough and Adrian Henri.
Liverpool in the 1970s
The decade the city lost a hundred thousand people. What closed, what opened, the Kirkby rent strike, and the free newspaper that put three men in prison.
Robert Tressell’s Grave, Liverpool
The author of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists died in Liverpool in 1911 and was buried in a pauper’s grave with twelve other people. Where it is, how it was found,…
NUPE: A Short History
The union that organised the people nobody else would, and the Liverpool gravediggers’ strike that everybody misremembers.