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 ...

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 ...

The historic areas of our cityscape have a timeless feel – lulling us into a sense that they’ve always been as they are now, that they are unchanging. Our experiences of these places are often very ...

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

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 ...

Kevin Sampson gives an overview of what Terrace Culture is and how important Fashion was to football fans of the 1970s. Image: A group of young East London Casuals, featured in an article in The Face ...

Gender Stories, a major exhibition about identity and self-expression, opens at Walker Art Gallery on 16 May 2026. The exhibition brings together artwork from Grayson Perry, David Hockney, James ...

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 & ...