From the British Invasion, to innovative recording techniques and embracing Eastern sounds, here's how the Beatles got so big. In 1998 viewers of Britain's Channel 4 television voted for the Beatles ...

The social and community history collections include objects of local, national and international importance. The wide-ranging collections reflect the changing history of the city and the diverse ...

This year’s anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster will be very different, but no less significant as we remember the 97 Liverpool fans who lost their lives on 15 April 1989. Here at the Museum of ...

In 1864 John Clint (d.1868), a Liverpool seaman and shipowner, founded a charitable institution to provide a secure environment in which to train the sons of sailors, destitute and orphaned boys, to ...

Apollo, the musical poet. Artemis, goddess of the hunt. Vastly different but connected forever. Greek mythology expert, Liv Albert, introduces us to the twins.

The Vertebrate Zoology collection includes 80,000 specimens of birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians and fish, and is rich in specimens more than 150 years old. This is part of the Natural History ...

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 ...

Alex Patterson looks at the fascinating life of Rosa Bonheur. As part of LGBT+ History Month, I’m delighted to celebrate the life and work of Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899). Bonheur was one of the most ...

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 ...

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 ...

From the Guide to Collections volume 2: This unique collection consists of correspondence and other documents of Fraser, Trenholm & Co., of 10 Rumford Place, Liverpool (1860-1866), and of Prioleau & ...

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 ...