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ARTICLES
Why Not Drown Liverpool? Welsh water for an English city
Reviews of Past Talks
The Social Survey of Merseyside 1929 – 1934
Robertson Gladstone: Demerara and Back 1828-1829
Key Events in Liverpool Newspaper History in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.
MEMORIES OF WAR
Remembering those from Dingle Liverpool, who served and died in World War I and World War II.
NOTICE BOARD
In the footsteps of Peter Ellis
Two Liverpool History Society members walk in the footsteps of Liverpool’s elusive architectural genius, Peter Ellis.
Written by Graham Jones and the late Rob Ainsworth, designed by Matthew Duddington and published by the Liverpool History Society, this book traces the life of a local architect from his birth in 1805 on Shaw’s Brow to his death in 1884 at Falkner Square.
Story of the month
Every month we offer a tantalising glimpse of just a few of the riveting tales that await the reader in Journals published each year since 2002.
Abandoned Old Lady resurrected by Women’s Group.
Often wondered how the ‘Grand Old Lady’ of football: Goodison Park and the new home of Everton Women Football Team got its name?
This month’s featured article by Tony Onslow tells in detail the story of George Goodison, whom Goodison Park is named after from his Yorkshire beginnings, marriage to Egyptologist and Crosby heiress Anne Jane Padley and to their burial in the village of Thornton-in-Lonsdale. Published in our 2017 Journal (No.16)