From the Maritime Archives & Library Guide to Collections, volume 1: The MDHB, its antecedent's and successor's collection is the Maritime Museum's largest and most important Archives. It covers the ...

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Writer and abolitionist, his extraordinary memoir brought attention to enslaved people's lives and went on to change history. Olaudah Equiano was born in 1745 in Essaka, Benin, today's Southeastern ...

History was made in 1957 on a small Church Hall stage in Woolton, Liverpool. Lead image: John Lennon plays guitar on stage with the Quarrymen at St Peter's church fete, Woolton, Merseyside, 6 July ...

The loss of His Majesty’s Troopship Lancastria on 17 June 1940 still resonates 80 years on from the disaster. RMS Tyrrhenia was built in Glasgow by William Beardmore and launched in 1922; she began ...

The regional archaeology collection includes objects which date from the Mesolithic to the modern periods, and provide evidence about how life in Merseyside has changed through its long history. The ...

The Connector Project’s first research pilot, ‘Overwriting – Underwriting’, launches as part of International Slavery Museum’s Slavery Remembrance Day programme. The event, which is delivered in ...

Laurence Westgaph looks into the history of William Brown Street and reveals it's connections with the international slave trade. Liverpool's Central Library and World Museum have their origins in ...

The Walker Art Gallery is set to receive an early Christmas present in the form of Lawrence Stephen Lowry’s painting The Liver Buildings, Liverpool, which will be displayed at the Gallery on long term ...

Photographer, Anthony Wilde, captures the sounds and sights of the UK's largest celebration of African music as it returns to Liverpool for another year.

Between 1783 and 1865, authorities in Charleston, South Carolina released license tags, at a fee, to enslavers to hire out people they had enslaved for profit. While slave-hiring had existed prior to ...