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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 11 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Wally Brown: A Life - Born & Raised in Liverpool 8 by Wally Brown
    Wally Brown: A Life - Born & Raised in Liverpool 8 - by Wally Brown

    £12.00   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781910580998 | ISBN 10: 1910580996

    Over ten years ago, Wally Brown sat down with a pen and paper to begin writing his memoirs – anything that he could remember of his life for the sake of his children and grandchildren so that they may know what life was like from his earliest years ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pastor Daniels Ekarte And The African Churches Mission: Liverpool 1931-1964 by Marika Sherwood
    Pastor Daniels Ekarte And The African Churches Mission: Liverpool 1931-1964 - by Marika Sherwood

    £11.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781739321178 | ISBN 10: 1739321170

    A young man arrived in Liverpool from Nigeria around 1915, expecting to find the streets paved with gold. The Dingle area of Toxteth he settled in was instead depressed, poor, racist, and to his mind, ungodly. In 1931, he founded the African Churches ... more

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  • Cover image of book Letters to Gil by Malik Al Nasir
    Letters to Gil - by Malik Al Nasir

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780008464479 | ISBN 10: 0008464472

    "A searing, triumphant story. A testament to the tenacity of the human spirit as well as a beautiful ode to an iconic figure"(Irenosen Okojie) Letters to Gil is Malik Al Nasir's profound coming of age memoir - the story of surviving physical and ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Persistence of Memory: Remembering Slavery in Liverpool,
    The Persistence of Memory: Remembering Slavery in Liverpool, 'Slaving Capital of the World' - by Jessica Moody

    £19.95   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781800348288 | ISBN 10: 1800348282

    The Persistence of Memory is a history of the public memory of transatlantic slavery in the largest slave-trading port city in Europe, from the end of the 18th century into the 21st century; from history to memory. Mapping this public memory over mor ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Beat Makers: The Unsung Heroes of The Mersey Sound by Anthony Hogan
    The Beat Makers: The Unsung Heroes of The Mersey Sound - by Anthony Hogan

    £18.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781445672083 | ISBN 10: 1445672081

    In the late 1950s, a flourishing musical culture began to emerge in major UK cities such as Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham and London. This was particularly true in the Merseyside area, where an estimated 350 different groups were active, often pl ... more

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  • Cover image of book 61 Minutes in Munich: The Story of Liverpool FC
    61 Minutes in Munich: The Story of Liverpool FC's First Black Footballer - by Howard Gayle

    £16.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781909245396 | ISBN 10: 1909245399

    In April 1981, Howard Gayle was summoned from the substitutes’ bench and sent on to play for Liverpool in the second leg of a European Cup semi-final at German champions Bayern Munich.   The previous October, by filling the same role at Manc ... more

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  • Cover image of book Just Your Average Muslim by Zia Chaudhry
    Just Your Average Muslim - by Zia Chaudhry

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780722481 | ISBN 10: 1780722486

    This fascinating and original book provides a better insight into the life of "just your average Muslim" than you will find anywhere else.  A powerful antidote to common but exhausted stereotypes, it challenges non-Muslims to reexamine their per ... more

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  • Cover image of book Before the Windrush: Race Relations in 20th-Century Liverpool by John Belchem
    Before the Windrush: Race Relations in 20th-Century Liverpool - by John Belchem

    £19.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781781380000 | ISBN 10: 1781380007

    Long before the arrival of the 'Empire Windrush' after the Second World War, Liverpool was widely known for its polyglot population, its boisterous 'sailortown' and cosmopolitan profile of transients, sojourners and settlers. Regarding Britain as the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Liverpool
    Liverpool '81: Remembering the Riots - by Diane Frost & Richard Phillips (Editors)

    £27.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781846316685 | ISBN 10: 1846316685

    Published to mark the 30th anniversary of the street disturbances that took place in Liverpool 8 in 1981, a time in which Liverpool was at the forefront of events that also rocked other British cities and communities including Brixton and Birmingham, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Foster Kid: A Liverpudlian Childhood by Paul Barber
    Foster Kid: A Liverpudlian Childhood - by Paul Barber

    £12.00   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780751539127 | ISBN 10: 0751539120

    After the death of his mother, Paul and his brothers and sister spent the rest of their childhoods in a succession of children’s and foster homes where they found themselves at the mercy of adults more interested in their own welfare than providing a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Liverpool and Slavery: A Scouse Press reprint of the 1884 account by
    Liverpool and Slavery: A Scouse Press reprint of the 1884 account by 'Dicky Sam' - by Dicky Sam

    £4.99   paperback   (1985) - ISBN 13: 9780901367327 | ISBN 10: 090136732x

    Facsimile reprint of a book first published in 1884, at a time when the British slave trade had been dead for more than 50 years, but many of the slave traders and captains who commanded the slave ships would still have been alive. (Which is probably ... more

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