Professor Stephen Small, author of the recently published Black Liverpool, 'The real thing': West African, West Indian and Afro-American culture at the end of the twentieth century, introduces his new book in this blog post, touching on how different the history of Black Liverpool is to that of Black London, and the influences which makes … Continue reading
Game Changer: A Life in Football, Business, and Beyond
Following the launch of Peter Moore's memoir, Game Changer: Playing to win at Xbox, EA Sports and Liverpool Football Club, Peter reflects on the publication of his new book and the journey which inspired it. Last week marked a milestone moment for me: the launch event for my autobiography, Game Changer, at the Waterstones in … Continue reading
A walking tour of Collecting Stories
Join Katy Hooper, Special Collections Librarian at the University of Liverpool and editor of recent publication Collecting Stories: The Cultural Collections of the University of Liverpool, on a walking tour around the University of Liverpool campus to see many of the items featured in this new book in real life. Collecting Stories: The Cultural Collections … Continue reading
In Conversation with… Ann Cleeves
As part of our 125th anniversary, we are celebrating authors who published their first work with LUP and have gone on to have successful writing careers. Here is Alison Welsby, Editorial Director at LUP, in conversation with the acclaimed and award-winning crime fiction writer, Ann Cleeves, whose first published work was a chapter in LUP’s … Continue reading
The Writing on The Walls
The Sash on the Mersey: The Orange Order in Liverpool (1819-1982) is a ground-breaking study which deploys a range of sources including Orange archives to examine how lodges became deeply rooted within Liverpool’s working class communities, guarded and transmitted their outlook, impacted the religious and political ethos of the city and analyses societal changes which … Continue reading
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