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Publications

Ken is the author of many informative and entertaining books about the history and heritage of Liverpool and Merseyside, and is always writing new ones! His current titles are all listed below.
These are available at all good bookshops and on-line at Amazon etc.
However, if you have any difficulty in obtaining them, please contact Ken on
0151 427 2717; or 07808 870 614;
or by E-Mail at [email protected] and he will be delighted to help.

Books

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Liverpool: The Rise, Fall and Renaissance of a World Class City

The glorious, complete, and very readable history of the Town, Port, Borough, and City of Liverpool, with full illustrations and maps ~ Be inspired: Be very, very inspired!

Liverpool Pubs

Entertaining and often surprising stories of 25 of Liverpool City's most historic, attractive, and curious pubs, taverns, and hostelries. Complete with full illustrations in colour and B&W.

Bloody British History

Fully illustrated grim and grisly tales from across the history of Liverpool and Wirral.

The A-Z of Liverpool

"Well I never knew that!" is the theme that runs through the people, places, and structures in this fully illustrated book.

Merseyside Tales: Curious and Amazing True Stories

Fifty illustrated stories from across Merseyside ~ each one amazing or bizarre, but all perfectly true!

More Merseyside Tales: Curious and Amazing True Stories

A second volume, containing another fifty, illustrated stories from across Merseyside ~ again, each one amazing or bizarre, but all perfectly true!

Even More Merseyside Tales

This is Ken's latest collection of strange, amazing, but true stories from across Merseyside ~ 55 of them!

Liverpool At Work

Discover the history of the trades and professions that made Liverpool great, and the people without whom the City might well still be an obscure, tiny, fishing hamlet. Fully illustrated.

Liverpools Military Heritage

Liverpool was founded for War! It has played a vital part in both world wars of the "0th century; but this fully illustrated book tells how it fared in history's other great conflicts, and how its people fought, sacrificed, and died ~ but also how they were ultimately victorious.

Two Triangles: Liverpool, Slavery, and The Church

Powerful, moving, disturbing, and yet also inspiring. This illustrated book tells the story of Liverpool's involvement in the Transatlantic slave trade. Principally though, it reveals the catastrophic extend to which the Church was the authority behind, the encourager of, and the profiteer from this dreadful trade in human life, death, and exploitation.

Liverpool Murders and Misdemeanours

This book brings to life a selection of the most notorious, and grimmest, murders and other crimes in and around Liverpool from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries ~ and it also describes some of the punishments meted out to their perpetrators!

A Brighter Hope: The Story of Liverpool Hope University

The fascinating story of how and why Liverpool Hope University was created, and of the inspiring vision behind it that was driven by Archbishop Derek Worlock (1920-1996), the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Liverpool, and Bishop David Sheppard (1929-2005), Anglican Bishop of Liverpool.

Beastly Merseyside

Animals have featured in the lives and cultures of the people of Merseyside since the dawn of time, and in so many ways. Beastly Merseyside describes this, and tells wonderful stories about these animals, and about the roles they have played.

Fact Sheets

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The Liverpool Fact Sheet Pack

A pack of 16, wonderful, double-sided, fully illustrated factsheet booklets, covering a wide-range of special topics from Liverpool's history and heritage. A great refence guide as well as being very informative and entertaining.

The Christmas Fact Sheet Pack

A pack of eight, wonderful, double-sided, fully illustrated factsheet booklets, covering so many aspects of the history and heritage of Christmas, and the customs and traditions that go to make up this most special of annual festivals. A great refence guide as well as being very informative and entertaining.

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