What does it mean to be a Scouser in the 21st century? What makes the city and its residents so distinctive? Why do people so often have preconceived ideas about this place? We’ve asked the people who ...

Admiral Lord Nelson’s death at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 overshadowed the British Navy’s victory that day. This is part of the Queer relationships collection. Nelson spent time with his ...

Admiral Lord Nelson’s death at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 overshadowed the British Navy’s victory that day. This is part of the Queer relationships collection. Nelson spent time with his ...

How the recording studio went from merely a tool, to part of the essential fabric of music. Although multitrack recorders were developed as early as the 1940s, at the time The Beatles started their ...

There are about 6,000 objects in World Museum's Oceania collections. Oceania is a geographical region covering a vast area in the Pacific Ocean. It includes the islands of Melanesia, Micronesia, ...

Gráinne O Malley is a well-known Pirate Queen from Irish history. Dr Gillian Kelly tells her story, from opposing Gaelic laws and taking over the ruling of her late husbands and fathers' fleets to ...

This story is taken from Arthurian Legend, which was the artist’s favourite subject. Merlin had fallen in love with Nimue (also called Nimiane, Vivian or Vivien). She profited from his infatuation by ...

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 ...

This bronze sculpture is probably the first important life-size statue of a manual labourer ever produced in Britain. It reflects the increasing desire of 'New Sculpture' artists, such as Hamo ...

Almost all the works in this room were created for the Roman Catholic Church, to serve its needs spiritually, politically and socially. The Church dominated the lives and thoughts of everyone ...

Forget Don Draper and the ‘Mad Men’ of 1960s New York, to see a true pioneer of modern advertising look no further than Bolton businessman William Hesketh Lever. Lets take a closer look at how he ...

The opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway on 15 September 1830 was a momentous event in the history of travel and transport. In the dim and distant past I wrote my MA dissertation on the ...