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Follow the Liverpool Remembers poppy trail
I was pleased to be asked to work with Liverpool City Council and Culture Liverpool on a trail, to accompany their Poppies: Weeping Window installation at St George’s Hall. Like many people, I was...
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Remembering Liverpool’s First World War
Captain Frank Watson This week we have been commemorating those who lost their lives in conflict. With the centenary of the First World War, this year we have naturally been thinking of that war and...
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Family History Day: a very special resource
An example of a record from the King’s Regiment database In my last Family History Day blog, I talked about the experts who will be on hand to help our visitors with their research on all sorts of...
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6 Christmas gifts you’ll want on your list
Started your feverish browsing for Christmas gift ideas? Fear not, yule* have no problems finding the perfect gift in our online shop, with prices to suit all budgets! We’ve picked our top 6 gifts to...
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Things turn up in the strangest places…
Silver plated clock dedicated to William Neale, Station Master at Riverside Station. Accession number MOL.2015.77 Riverside Station was a bustling station on the Liverpool waterfront between 1895 and...
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Family History Day – fun for all the family
Handle World War One object at Family History Day Karen O’Rourke, Curator of Urban and Military History at the Museum of Liverpool tells us how the Family History Day this Saturday 21 November, is the...
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HIV – fighting fear with education
The launch of the Pug Virus installation. Not that long ago I met up with artist John Walter as he unveiled his Pug Virus at the Walker Art Gallery. The installation, a massive bright pink...
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Vote for Tramcar 245 as Tram of the Year!
The restored Tramcar 245 at Birkenhead Heritage Tramway The restoration of Tramcar 245 has been recognised by British Trams Online and our wonderful tram is in the running for their award of Best Tram...
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All that glitters – is it gold?
One of the Museum of Liverpool’s latest acquisitions into the Regional Archaeology Collection is the amazing Malpas Hoard. This collection of coins, buried around AD50 has been acquired jointly with...
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A year in blogs – our top 5 stories from 2015!
Silver Jubilee street party, June 1977, Old Swan, Liverpool As 2015 draws to a close, we’re looking back on some of the most popular stories from the blog this year. We began the year by revealing how...
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Lily of the Scally – her life and legacy
As a child I remember seeing Lily Savage on the television. Growing up in London it was perhaps the first Liverpool accent I heard – it is certainly one of the first I remember anyway. Twenty years...
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And the winner is… Tramcar 245!
Keith Carmichael, Ron Martin and Rob Jones from MTPS and Sharon Brown from the Museum of Liverpool celebrate winning Tram of the Year Hurrah! The Museum of Liverpool’s Tramcar 245 has been voted ‘Tram...
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Eberle Street: cock fights, The Tempest and 250 years of transformation
For those of you who aren’t familiar with Eberle Street, it is one of the main streets in Liverpool’s defined ‘Gay Quarter’ around Victoria Street and Dale Street, and is home to Garlands nightclub...
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Found – that’s me in the photo!
Silver Jubilee street party, June 1977, Old Swan, Liverpool Julie Howard recently recognised herself when she spotted our appeal to trace the people in this fantastic photograph in our exhibition,...
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Galkoff’s and the Secret Life of Pembroke Place
Galkoff’s butcher’s shop today – behind protective hoarding, courtesy of LSTM Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and National Museums Liverpool (NML) are working together to preserve, record...
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Poppies – a botanist’s view
Welsh poppy, Meconopsis cambrica. This specimen was collected in May 1949 from Hawkshead, Cumbria. Accession number 1987.376.98 As a botanist I was fascinated to see the Poppies: Women and War...
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Explore our Roman past
Roman denarii coins from the Malpas Hoard To coincide with our forthcoming exhibition, Roman Treasures of Cheshire, there’s a great opportunity to explore the Roman past of north west England in detail...
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Brookie: A few LGBT ‘firsts’ and a kiss that went global
© Liverpool Daily Post and Echo Working on the Pride and Prejudice project means that I spend a lot of my time thinking about the story of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trans people in Liverpool....
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Works begin on Museum of Liverpool steps and terraces
Works on the steps and terraces outside the Museum of Liverpool begin this week This week, we have started work on the external steps and terraces at each end of the Museum of Liverpool. On completion...
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Pride and Prejudice project – first objects revealed!
Today, in celebration of Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) History Month, we are excited to launch our online collections which showcase items with LGBT connections, from across our fine and...
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