"Bringing together fiction from some of the city's most celebrated writers, The Book of Liverpool traces the unique contours that decades of social and economic change can impress on a city. Set against key historical moments from the Second World War to the Capital of Culture year, these stories question what 'belonging' and 'home' mean in the Liverpudlian context, from the regenerated city centre to satellite suburbs, from the sparring cathedrals to the no-go concrete housing estates. Liverpool emerges in these short stories as a city in constant flux: haunted by ghosts, buoyed up by myths, and shifting with an ebb and flow like Mercury itself."--BOOK JACKET.
Perfect for any Liverpool fan!
To look at the players that have worn the famous red shirt is to wander through a historical who's who of world football: the story of Liverpool Football Club is rich in success and glory, but it is also rich in tradition: the famous ...
"I want to build a team that's invincible, so they'll have to send a team from Mars to beat us.
Filled with a cornucopia of facts and stats, match reports, biographies, histories, and fun and games in the shape of puzzles and crosswords, this is the perfect gift for any Liverpool fan.
Liverpool: A People's History tells the full story of this unique place in a way which celebrates the individuals who have shaped it, often allowing witnesses from the past to speak for themselves.
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.
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Shaped by eighteenth-century assumptions, Liverpool nonetheless laid the foundations for the nineteenth-century Britain that emerged from the Reform era.
Learning something new about your favorite club every day of the year The On This Day series offers a diary-style log of events that happened on each calendar day of the year.
'Immensely readable' Hannah Jane Parkinson, OBSERVER 'Informative and emotive' THIS IS ANFIELD *As featured in the Guardian's Biggest Books of Autumn 2020* In the first book by a British writer about this extraordinary football manager, ...