Liverpool University Press: 64 books
Militant Liverpool
A City on the Edge
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
In May 1983, in the wake of her victory in the Falklands, Mrs Thatcher won the second of her three general election victories. Liverpool, going not for the first or last time against the grain, elected a Labour council that vowed to be different. In an environment of mass unemployment in which Liverpool...
The Liverpool Underworld
Crime in the City, 1750-1900
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
In the nineteenth century Liverpool gained an unenviable reputation as the most crime-ridden place in the country. Dock theft, alcohol-related crime, prostitution, sectarian violence, a high level of female offending and armies of juvenile thieves made Liverpool a distinct criminal landscape, 'the...
Scouse
A Social and Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Nowhere in Britain is more closely associated with a form of language than Liverpool. Yet the history of language in Liverpool has been obscured by misrepresentation and myth-making and narratives of Liverpool's linguistic past have scarcely done justice to the rich, complex and fascinating history...
by Tony Crowley
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Know someone with an antwacky stem-winder? Heard the Band of Hope Street? Ever been on a vinegar trip? Do you jangle? Ever met a Cunard yank in the Dingle? Could you pay for a dodger with a joey? Have you heard a maccyowler in a jigger? The Liverpool English Dictionary records the rich vocabulary...
The Rhythm and the Tide
Liverpool, The La's and Ever After
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Liverpool in the 1980s. With prospects for the city's youth bleak, a scheme for unemployed musicians commenced, inadvertently shaping the future for members of Cast, Space, the Lightning Seeds and giving fresh impetus to the idea of song as a saviour for the city. Foremost of the bands to emerge from...
Film, Mobility and Urban Space
A Cinematic Geography of Liverpool
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Drawing on multi-disciplinary debates surrounding the cultural production of place, space and memory in the post-industrial city, Film, Mobility and Urban Space explores the role of moving images in representations and perceptions of everyday urban landscapes. The arguments put forward in the book...
Deaf School
The Non-Stop Pop Art Punk Rock Party
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Liverpool's dynamic music scene gave the world The Beatles. What city could hope to follow that? But 12 years later, in 1974, lightning nearly struck twice. Deaf School were a band formed in John Lennon's old art college, rehearsing in the very same rooms. With their chaotic and wildly entertaining...
Black Tommies
British Soldiers of African Descent in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Black Tommies is the first book entirely dedicated to the part played by soldiers of African descent in the British regular army during the First World War. If African colonial troops have been ignored by historians, the existence of any substantial narrative around Black British soldiers enlisting...
Édith Piaf
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The world-famous French singer Édith Piaf (1915-63) was never just a singer. Dozens of biographies of her, of variable quality, have seldom got beyond the well known and usually contested 'facts' of her life. This book suggests new ways of understanding her. A 'cultural history' of Piaf means exploring...
by Tim Grady
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
The First World War saw almost 100,000 German Jews wear the uniform of the Imperial army; some 12,000 of these soldiers lost their lives in battle. Over the last century, public memory of their sacrifice has been very gradually subsumed into the much greater catastrophe of the Holocaust. This book...
by Marianne Elliott
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763-1798) was the founder of Irish Republican nationalism. As such his political ideas and the circumstances of his life and early death have become powerful political weapons in the hands of later nationalists. Today his name still arouses strong passions and he is hailed as...
Michel Houellebecq
Humanity and its Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Michel Houellebecq is perhaps the single most successful and controversial of all contemporary novelists writing in French. Houellebecq has become a global publishing phenomenon: his books have been translated worldwide, three film adaptations of his work have been produced, and the author has been...
Memoirs of a Leavisite
The Decline and Fall of Cambridge English
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
In the second half of the last century, the teaching of English literature was very much influenced and, in some places, entirely dominated by the ideas of F. R. Leavis. What was it like to be taught by this iconic figure? How and why did one become a Leavisite? In this unique book, part memoir, part...
by Mona Arshi
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Mona Arshi's debut collection, Small Hands, introduces a brilliant and compelling new voice. At the center of the book is the slow detonation of grief after her brother's death but her work focuses on the whole variety of human experience: pleasure, hardship, tradition, energised by language which...