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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 9 books in this booklist
£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£7.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780953182619 | ISBN 10: 0953182614
Despite threats from his wife, in May 2005 Kenny Noonan travels to Istanbul to watch Liverpool play AC Milan in the Champions League Final. He carries the scars of thirty years as a football fan and a Liverpudlian: the 1981 riots, the Thatcher years, ... more
View book details£24.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781846318634 | ISBN 10: 1846318637
In May 1983, in the wake of her victory in the Falklands, Mrs Thatcher won the second of her three general election victories. Liverpool, going not for the first or last time against the grain, elected a Labour council that vowed to be different. In ... more
View book details£5.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780957063105 | ISBN 10: 0957063105
Dr D Ben Rees has brought to life the powerful and well-known Bessie Braddock who made politics attractive for 50 years on Merseyside. She inherited from her mother, Mary Bamber, a Scot, her socialism and strengthened her determination to ma ... more
View book details£15.00 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781906593704 | ISBN 10: 1906593701
The art, life and exile of Polish artist Albert Lipczinski against the background of artistic, political and social revolution in Liverpool. The story is written in a number of contexts: political agitation in the city; the community of artists of th ... more
View book details£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
View book details£6.00 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780954207700 | ISBN 10: 095420770x
Edward Rushton was undoubtedly a heroic figure who should be given a place in Liverpool's history of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He was an uncompromising opponent of slavery, who at the age of nineteen became blind. He wrote poetr ... more
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