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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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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 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 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 ...

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 ...

Museum of Liverpool Emerging Archaeologists (MoLEA) is an exciting new opportunity for young people aged 16-24 to gain direct hands-on experience of their local archaeology through talks, workshops ...

Built at Harland and Wolff’s shipyard in Belfast, White Star Line’s Britannic was the third of the Olympic-class passenger liners - sister ship to Olympic and Titanic. As a result of the tragedy of ...

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