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Edith Eskrigge

  • Post published:December 1, 2014
  • Post category:Suffragists
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On the eve of the First World War, just over a century ago, the militant “Suffragette” movement demanding votes for women was in full-swing. The names of Emmeline Pankhurst and…

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Liverpool’s Own St Paul’s

  • Post published:October 1, 2014
  • Post category:Urban History (Liverpool)
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One of the most prominent and distinctive buildings on nineteenth century Liverpool’s skyline would have been the beautiful, but now long demolished, St Paul’s church. I have a personal connection…

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An Oriel Prospect

  • Post published:September 3, 2014
  • Post category:Hugh Shimmin/Urban History (Liverpool)
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Liverpool must have presented a magnificent prospect to visitors in the second half of the Nineteenth Century, whether arriving by sea or rail. They could hardly fail to be impressed…

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Hugh Shimmin’s Journalism

  • Post published:July 1, 2014
  • Post category:Hugh Shimmin/Urban History (Liverpool)
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Writing in the 1850s and 1860s, often in his own publication the Porcupine, Hugh Shimmin invokes a desperate Liverpudlian landscape of squalid and overcrowded living, causal labour, acute poverty, hopeless drink…

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Banner image: detail from The Dancing Platform at Cremorne Gardens (Phoebus Levin, 1864), Museum of London.
This setting is featured in the chapter of Bring Him in Mad entitled ‘A Christmas Pantomime’.