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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 34 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Georgian Liverpool by Hugh Hollinghurst
    Georgian Liverpool - by Hugh Hollinghurst

    £15.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781398110632 | ISBN 10: 1398110639

    The history of Georgian Liverpool through its buildings. All those interested in the history of Liverpool will find this a fascinating exploration of the Georgian heritage of this city.   Liverpool grew rapidly in the Georgian period as it ... more

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  • Cover image of book Great War Britain Liverpool: Remembering 1914-18 by Pamela Russell
    Great War Britain Liverpool: Remembering 1914-18 - by Pamela Russell

    £14.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780750970396 | ISBN 10: 0750970391

    The First World War claimed over 995,000 British lives, and its legacy continues to be remembered today.   Great War Britain: Liverpool offers a detailed insight into this great city and its people facing the challenges of wartime. This highly acc ... more

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  • Cover image of book Walking on Water Street: A Stroll Along the Original Shoreline of the River Mersey by Graham Jones
    Walking on Water Street: A Stroll Along the Original Shoreline of the River Mersey - by Graham Jones

    £49.95   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781915292483 | ISBN 10: 1915292484

    "I am astonished at the amount of research which you've put into this book, and written with such a lightness of touch."(Peter Elson, Blue Coat School Development Officer) "Thank you so much another wonderful production on a par with your book on ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Welsh in Liverpool: A Remarkable History by D.Ben Rees
    The Welsh in Liverpool: A Remarkable History - by D.Ben Rees

    £19.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781912631360 | ISBN 10: 1912631369

    The Welsh in Liverpool: A Remarkable Story by D. Ben Rees is the culmination of decades worth of research into the unique history of the contribution made by the Welsh in Liverpool and Merseyside.  D. Ben Rees said:  “I’m glad to be able ... more

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  • Cover image of book Liverpool Murders and Misdemeanours by Ken Pye
    Liverpool Murders and Misdemeanours - by Ken Pye

    £15.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781445695938 | ISBN 10: 1445695936

    This book brings to life a selection of the most notorious, and grimmest, murders and other crimes in and around Liverpool from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries.   The tales include ‘Fire in the Menagerie’, ‘Mu ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Hidden History: The Irish Language in Liverpool/An Ghaeilge i Learpholl by Tony Birtill
    A Hidden History: The Irish Language in Liverpool/An Ghaeilge i Learpholl - by Tony Birtill

    £12.00   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781999803827 | ISBN 10: 1999803825

    Local teacher, journalist and Irish language enthusiast, Tony Birtill, tells the fascinating history of the Irish language in Liverpool over the past 200 years and examines the Irish language vocabulary and speech patterns still in use in present day ... more

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  • Cover image of book Historic Streets of Liverpool by David Paul
    Historic Streets of Liverpool - by David Paul

    £14.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781445671956 | ISBN 10: 1445671956

    The thriving city of Liverpool has become particularly well known over the last century for its maritime industry, contributions to sport and, of course, its legendary musical heritage. However, this city has a history that stretches back hundreds of ... more

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  • Cover image of book We Shall Not Be Moved by Brian Marren
    We Shall Not Be Moved - by Brian Marren

    £21.00   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781526132963 | ISBN 10: 1526132966

    The city of Liverpool had frequently been prone to industrial unrest for most of its recent history, but it was the dawn of Thatcher and the sanctioning of neoliberal economic strategies which made Liverpool a nucleus of resistance against the encroa ... more

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  • Cover image of book Speke Hall by The National Trust
    Speke Hall - by The National Trust

    £6.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781843595205 | ISBN 10: 1843595206

    Speke Hall is a precious survival from the Tudor age - one of the most important timber-framed buildings in the north of England. Neglected during most of the eighteenth century, Speke was restored in the 1850s by Richard Watt, who filled its pannel ... more

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  • Cover image of book Harry Constable: In His Own Words by Bill Hunter
    Harry Constable: In His Own Words - by Bill Hunter

    £10.00   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780954207755 | ISBN 10: 0954207750

    Dockers set the pace for all the gains in wages and conditions during the 1940s and 50s. Most of their battles, against their bosses, the government and sometimes their own union, were led by rank and file committees. Harry Constable was one of their ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hillsborough Voices: The Real Story Told by the People Themselves by Kevin Sampson, in association with the Hillsborough Justice Campaign
    Hillsborough Voices: The Real Story Told by the People Themselves - by Kevin Sampson, in association with the Hillsborough Justice Campaign

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780091955625 | ISBN 10: 0091955629

    On 15 April 1989 the world witnessed one of the worst football disasters occur at the Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield: 96 people were crushed to death and another 766 injured in what later was admitted to be caused by a shocking failure by police. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Liverpool Cowkeepers by Dave Joy
    Liverpool Cowkeepers - by Dave Joy

    £15.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781445663227 | ISBN 10: 1445663228

    The mid-1800s witnessed a mass exodus from the Pennine ‘Dales’ as the then latest generation of farmers and miners sought a new life in the New World. However, many of these found a new life for themselves a bit closer to home – they became Liv ... more

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  • Cover image of book Liverpool: Gateway to Heaven and Hell - A Personal Odyssey by Neil Deane
    Liverpool: Gateway to Heaven and Hell - A Personal Odyssey - by Neil Deane

    £16.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9783864605734 | ISBN 10: 3864605733

    This book on Liverpool offers the reader many things: a comprehensive social and cultural history; an insider travel guide; an analysis of the city's people and the places they inhabit; the gripping tale of the Beatles in their Liverpool home and an ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Hillsborough Disaster: In Their Own Words by Mike Nicholson
    The Hillsborough Disaster: In Their Own Words - by Mike Nicholson

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781445634869 | ISBN 10: 1445634864

    "Hillsborough will be remembered as one of the biggest injustices of the twentieth century, because those who were there to protect the public turned against them in their hour of need. The power of print media was at its absolute peak at that time, ... more

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  • Cover image of book What
    What's Your Granby Story? - by Various authors

    £2.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781910580073 | ISBN 10: 1910580074

    "These memories of Granby Street chronicle the passion and importance of Liverpool's diverse cultural heritage. From stories of poverty, hardship, displacement and isolation, to those of entrepreneurialism, settlement and community, the overall tone ... more

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  • Cover image of book Secret Liverpool by Mark and Michelle Rosney
    Secret Liverpool - by Mark and Michelle Rosney

    £14.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781445640532 | ISBN 10: 1445640538

    When you ask most people about Liverpool, you could be forgiven for thinking that the city is only famous for its maritime history, its two successful football teams or for being the birthplace of The Beatles – but there is so much more to this amazi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Liverpool Gangs, Vice and Packet Rats: 19th Century Crime and Punishment by Malcolm Archibald
    Liverpool Gangs, Vice and Packet Rats: 19th Century Crime and Punishment - by Malcolm Archibald

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781845029623 | ISBN 10: 1845029623

    Now world famous for football and music, in the nineteenth century Liverpool had a very different reputation. One of the greatest sports in the world, and Europe's western gateway to the Atlantic, Liverpool's emerging wealth and prosperity brought wi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Electric Railways of Liverpool and Manchester by Graeme Gleaves
    Electric Railways of Liverpool and Manchester - by Graeme Gleaves

    £12.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781445639895 | ISBN 10: 1445639890

    Popular history will tell the tale of how the steam locomotive came to dominate Victorian Britain but while the steam railway died out in the 1960s, the electric railway was already a success story and one that would not only endure but dominate rail ... more

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  • Cover image of book Murderers or Martyrs by George Skelly
    Murderers or Martyrs - by George Skelly

    £19.95   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781904380801 | ISBN 10: 1904380808

    A spell-binding account of an appalling miscarriage of justice. Charged with the "Cranborne Road murder" of Wavertree widow Alice Rimmer, two Manchester youths were hastily condemned by a Liverpool jury on the police-orchestrated lies of a crimina ... more

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  • Cover image of book Liverpool Ghost Signs: A Sideways Look at the City
    Liverpool Ghost Signs: A Sideways Look at the City's Advertising History - by Caroline and Phil Bunford

    £12.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780752465708 | ISBN 10: 0752465708

    Take a photographic journey into Liverpool’s often overlooked local, craft and advertising history. This intriguing book profiles hand-painted advertising from across the city and investigates the companies that commissioned the signs that now appear ... more

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  • Cover image of book Liverpool Blitzed by Neil Holmes
    Liverpool Blitzed - by Neil Holmes

    £19.99   hardback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780857040794 | ISBN 10: 0857040790

    The Liverpool of early September 1939 was a thriving port and bustling city of over 800,000 people. World War Two changed this forever. Between the 27th June 1940 and the I0th January 1942 Hitler’s Luftwaffe rained down death and destruction on the c ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Little Book of Liverpool by Alex Tulloch
    The Little Book of Liverpool - by Alex Tulloch

    £9.99   hardback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780752460062 | ISBN 10: 0752460064

    The Little Book of Liverpool is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information which no-one will want to be without. Here we find out about the most unusual crimes and punishments, eccent ... more

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  • Cover image of book Liverpool City Centre Through Time by Ian Collard
    Liverpool City Centre Through Time - by Ian Collard

    £14.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781445604121 | ISBN 10: 1445604124

    Although Liverpool has existed as a port since the thirteenth century, it wasn’t until the seventeenth century that it truly began to grow on the profits of trade with America, importing sugar from the West Indies and Virginia tobacco and exporting t ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Monster Evil: Policing and Violence in Victorian Liverpool by John E. Archer
    The Monster Evil: Policing and Violence in Victorian Liverpool - by John E. Archer

    £10.00   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781846316838 | ISBN 10: 1846316839

    Liverpool gained a unique and notorious reputation during the 19th century for being an abnormally violent and criminal place. The Monster Evil intends to explore the historical foundations of this stigmatization: were the fears real or an invention ... more

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  • Cover image of book Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery by Edited by David Richardson, Suzanne Schwarz and Anthony Tibbles
    Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery - by Edited by David Richardson, Suzanne Schwarz and Anthony Tibbles

    £29.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781846312441 | ISBN 10: 1846312442

    Newly available in paperback, this edition is an important volume of international significance, drawing together contributions from some of the leading scholars in the field and edited by a team headed by the acclaimed historian David Richardson.&nb ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ships of the Mersey by Ian Collard
    Ships of the Mersey - by Ian Collard

    £15.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781848680586 | ISBN 10: 1848680589

    Overshadowing the port of Chester, Liverpool grew in size from the 1800s on sugar and slavery. Expanding over the following two centuries, the port has grown to take over part of the other side of the Mersey, with docks at Birkenhead, Ellesmere Port ... more

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  • Cover image of book So Spirited a Town: Visions and Versions of Liverpool by Nicholas Murray
    So Spirited a Town: Visions and Versions of Liverpool - by Nicholas Murray

    £12.95   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781846311284 | ISBN 10: 1846311284

    In this highly personal encounter with his native city Nicholas Murray blends literary descriptions of Liverpool across the centuries with his own memories of a 1960s Liverpool childhood to create an original and nuanced portrait of the character of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dockers and Detectives by Ken Worpole
    Dockers and Detectives - by Ken Worpole

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781905512379 | ISBN 10: 1905512376

    Ken's first book, Dockers and Detectives, has now been re-published by Five Leaves Press. This early study of twentieth-century working class reading and writing in Britain helped revive a number of literary reputations, such as those of Alexander Ba ... more

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  • Cover image of book Irish, Catholic and Scouse: The History of the Liverpool Irish, 1800-1939 by John Belchem
    Irish, Catholic and Scouse: The History of the Liverpool Irish, 1800-1939 - by John Belchem

    £44.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781846311086 | ISBN 10: 184631108x

    Liverpool in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was a great cultural melting pot and processing point of migration from Europe to the USA. The Irish in particular crossed to Liverpool in their tens of thousands before setting out across the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Liverpool 800: Character, Culture and History by John Belchem
    Liverpool 800: Character, Culture and History - by John Belchem

    £14.95   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781846310355 | ISBN 10: 1846310350

    WARNING - this book weighs nearly 2kg & so £5.45 1st class to post to UK addresses.   Ancestry and origin fascinate America. Study of the genealogy of this rich and diverse nation establishes a seldom recognized fact: the importance of Liverpool in ... more

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  • Cover image of book Merseypride: Essays in Liverpool Exceptionalism by John Belchem
    Merseypride: Essays in Liverpool Exceptionalism - by John Belchem

    £19.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781846310102 | ISBN 10: 1846310105

    Liverpool stands outside the main narrative frameworks of modern British history, located as it is at the intersection of competing cultural, economic and geo-political formations. Repudiated by some as as an external imposition, an unmerited stigma ... more

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  • Cover image of book Images of England: Central Liverpool by David Paul
    Images of England: Central Liverpool - by David Paul

    £12.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780752406404 | ISBN 10: 075240640x

    This book of photographs not only depicts the cosmopolitan face of Liverpool but also traces the many changes that Liverpudlians have experienced over the last century. This isn't just a story based around grand buildings, it's about the ordinary peo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Everton Football Club 1878-1946 by John Rowlands
    Everton Football Club 1878-1946 - by John Rowlands

    £10.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780752422596 | ISBN 10: 0752422596

    This collection of original material and photographs charts the history of this proud and well-supported club, from its early days, when the tema was still playing at Stanley Park, through to 1946. It illustrates the highlights of the period of the c ... more

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  • Cover image of book Images of England: Bootle by Peter W. Woolley
    Images of England: Bootle - by Peter W. Woolley

    £12.99   paperback   (1996) - ISBN 13: 9780752406244 | ISBN 10: 0752406248

    This collection of over 200 old photographs of Bootle is a fascianting archive of a lost age. The photgraphs cover a period from the 1890s right up to the 1970s and show in detail how dramatic have been the changes in both the appearance of the area ... more

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