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 ...

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 collection comprises more than 200 anatomical models of plants made by the Berlin firm of R. Brendel & Co in Germany around the turn of the 20th century for display and teaching purposes. This is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Liverpool’s changing cityscape over the decades is captured in several collections of photographs from the Archives Centre at the Maritime Museum. One series of images from the Keith Lewis collection ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In uncertain times, when we all feel at least a little lost and anxious, it is sometimes comforting to look back to previous occasions when we have faced significant tests - to see that we have the ...

Alongside the recent Piermaster's Green community excavations in the heart of Liverpool's historic docks, we took a look at the lives of the families who used to call the waterfront home. Walking ...

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