Product Description: Liverpool has a deeply chequered past. As the second city of the Empire, she was a leading light in the influential story of Victorian Britain. This northern metropolis has thrived as a maritime port and has been home to a vast melting pot of people from all over the world...read more

Product Description: Liverpool’s proud past can be well summed up by its headlines. Local author Daniel K. Longman delves into the archives of the Liverpool Echo to discover the events and personalities that have made the city what it is today. From the dramatic effects of the First and Second World Wars on the the city and its residents to the ‘Merseybeat’ era and the city’s regeneration, learn about Liverpool’s status as a cultural and industrial hub...read more

Product Description: Wirral Then & Now invites you to explore the peninsula’s rich heritage in this fascinating pictorial compilation. Contrasting a selection of 45 archive images alongside stunning full-color modern photographs, this book reveals the changing face of Wirral’s towns and landscapes during the last century...read more

Product Description: Wirral Then & Now invites you to explore the peninsula's rich heritage in this fascinating pictorial compilation. Contrasting a selection of 45 archive images alongside stunning full-color modern photographs, this book reveals the changing face of Wirral's towns and landscapes during the last century...read more

Product Description: With its strategic shipping ports and factories, the towns and cities dotted along the River Mersey soon became some of Hitler’s most heavily targeted sites during the Second World War. In August 1940 the German Luftwaffe attacked Birkenhead in what was to be the first of over 300 such bombing raids Merseyside sustained that year...read more

Product Description: For those interested in the darker side of the city's history, here is an entertaining and informative round-up of some of the strangest, most bloodthirsty, despicable, and comical crimes that took place in and around Liverpool from the Victorian era up to the mid-20th century...read more