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Liverpool People's History @liverpoolph.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

... It published witty poems that didn’t always scan and letters from readers who it then insulted in print. But that didn’t matter because it gave people a laugh – and built up a cult following. liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/2025/11/27/f...

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Fun in the dismal days of Thatcherism: the story of ‘The End’ magazine | Liverpool People's History

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Liverpool People's History @liverpoolph.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Fun in the dismal days of Thatcherism: ‘The End’ magazine was produced by the young and read by the young. It talked mainly about football, music, beer and made jokes about life without a job. The End had plenty of attitude and was often outrageous .../

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Liverpool People's History @liverpoolph.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Trouble in toytown: When the Meccano factory suddenly closed down in 1979, workers fought back by occupying the premises. liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/2026/03/22/t...

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Liverpool People's History @liverpoolph.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

... But demolition and displacement weren’t the only options and in Toxteth the Shelter Neighbourhood Action Project initiated a new approach. liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/2025/12/09/r...

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Rehousing Liverpool (1): From slum clearance to rehabilitation | Liverpool People's History

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Liverpool People's History @liverpoolph.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Slum clearance in the 1960s and 1970s separated people from friends and neighbours they had known for years. Tens of thousands were “decanted” to new estates on the edges of Liverpool .../

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Liverpool People's History @liverpoolph.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The early years of Women’s Liberation: How the movement evolved on Merseyside in the 1970s and 1980s, by @racheljcollett. liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/2025/04/24/t...

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Liverpool People's History @liverpoolph.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

(3/3) Neighbouring local authorities engaged in sort of ping-pong game, batting the problem of unwelcome caravans back and forth across each other’s administrative boundaries.

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Liverpool People's History @liverpoolph.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

(2/3) After eviction from one patch of waste land they would move to another, where the process to evict them would begin again. liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/2025/11/24/h...

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Hounded out of town: the caravan dwellers with nowhere to stay | Liverpool People's History

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Liverpool People's History @liverpoolph.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

(1/3) In the 1970s gypsies and other itinerant caravan dwellers faced constant battles with the authorities due to a lack of places where they could legally camp.

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Liverpool People's History @liverpoolph.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

6/6 Lord Salisbury stepped down as chancellor a few months later and after 46 years the university awarded an honorary degree to Pete Cresswell, the expelled student.

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Liverpool People's History @liverpoolph.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

5/6 The sit-in lasted 10 days and got national press coverage – most of it hostile. Nine students were eventually suspended and one was expelled.

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Liverpool People's History @liverpoolph.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

4/6 They were also seeking details of the university's investments and “satisfactory answers” to questions about chemical and biological warfare research.

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Liverpool People's History @liverpoolph.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

3/6 Their main demand was for the resignation of the university’s Chancellor, the Marquess of Salisbury, who was an outspoken supporter of the minority white regime in Rhodesia.

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Liverpool People's History @liverpoolph.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

2/6 The students had a series of demands which, taken together, amounted to an accusation that the university was trying to ignore the social and political consequences of its policy decisions.

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Liverpool People's History @liverpoolph.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

1/6 In March 1970 some 300 students occupied the Senate House at Liverpool University and hoisted a red flag over the building. liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/2025/03/12/l...

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Revolting students: Liverpool University sit-in, 1970 | Liverpool People's History

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Liverpool People's History @liverpoolph.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

4/4 The conspiracy trial cost the government about £250,000 and a Special Branch team spent almost a year gathering what evidence they could. The court sat for 51 days but in the end it took the jury only 90 minutes to deliver “Not Guilty” verdicts on all the accused.

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Liverpool People's History @liverpoolph.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

3/4 They had been handing out leaflets headed "Some information for discontented soldiers" which described various ways that soldiers who didn't want to serve in Northern Ireland could leave the Army.

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Liverpool People's History @liverpoolph.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

2/4 Two Liverpool men were among 14 people arrested and charged with conspiring to "seduce" troops from their allegiance to the Queen.

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Liverpool People's History @liverpoolph.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

1/4 Activists campaigning against Britain’s military presence in Northern Ireland faced surveillance and prosecution during the 1970s. liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/2025/01/07/s...

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‘Seducing’ soldiers | Liverpool People's History

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Liverpool People's History @liverpoolph.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

6/6 Areas scheduled for demolition became twilight zones while others — already cleared — remained empty in the absence of funds for new construction. This prompted acerbic jokes that the council was taking up the task that Hitler’s Luftwaffe had left unfinished.

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Liverpool People's History @liverpoolph.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

5/6 Fortunately for Liverpool, the economic downturn in the 1970s made Shankland’s plans unaffordable and they were abandoned bit by bit. That led to another problem, though, because the preparations had blighted much of the city.

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Liverpool People's History @liverpoolph.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

4/6 Some walkways were built but they proved unpopular and were removed a few years later. One had become known as “Muggers’ Alley”.

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Liverpool People's History @liverpoolph.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

3/6 Vast areas were designated for car parks and pedestrians would be consigned to “walkways in the sky” (foot bridges) with under-floor heating to prevent people from slipping on ice in the winter.

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Liverpool People's History @liverpoolph.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

2/6 Shankland's vision for Liverpool was to tear down much of the centre and replace it with “robust and manly” new buildings and a motorway on stilts “curving sensuously” around them.

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Liverpool People's History @liverpoolph.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

1/6 In the early 1960s Liverpool’s council was seeking to redevelop the city— especially its centre — on more modern lines. The man hired for this task was Graeme Shankland, widely regarded as the archetype of a rampant city planner. liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/2025/03/12/s...

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Concrete is beautiful: the Shankland master-plan | Liverpool People's History

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Liverpool People's History @liverpoolph.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

3/3 The work could be exhausting but it was relatively well paid and conditions were good. The paternalistic Moores family who owned Littlewoods wanted their staff to be happy and provided entertainment in the lunch breaks. There was plenty of after-work social activity too, plus an annual outingl.

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Liverpool People's History @liverpoolph.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

2/3 Littlewoods provided jobs for thousands of Liverpool women and in an article for People's History several of them describe what it was like to work there. liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/2025/03/13/l...

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Littlewoods Pools: where women ‘never had time to get bored’ | Liverpool People's History

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Liverpool People's History @liverpoolph.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

1/3 Littlewoods Pools was once a household name in Britain. Before the National Lottery arrived, millions of people filled in a weekly Pools coupon, hoping to win a fortune by predicting the outcome of football matches. Every coupon had to be checked and in the pre-computer age it was a massive task

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Liverpool People's History @liverpoolph.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Community Health Councils were established in 1974 to monitor NHS performance and represent the views of patients and the public. In Liverpool, though, their efforts improve health services were constantly battered by spending cuts and closures. liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/2025/05/22/n...

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Liverpool People's History @liverpoolph.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

In 1973 government inspectors visited the Scotland Road Free School and produced a report which was not made public at the time. Liverpool People's History has tracked down a copy in the National Archives at Kew – and its content is devastating. liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/2025/05/18/s...

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Scotland Road Free School: a devastating report from government inspectors | Liverpool People's History

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Liverpool People's History @liverpoolph.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Today is the 51st anniversary of the opening of News from Nowhere, Liverpool's long-surviving radical bookshop. Mandy Vere, who worked there for 45 years tells its story. bsky.app/profile/live...

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Liverpool People's History @liverpoolph.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

NEW ON THE WEBSITE: historian Rachel Collett traces the growth of the Women’s Liberation Movement on Merseyside through the 1970s and 1980s. liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/2025/04/24/t...

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Liverpool People's History @liverpoolph.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Graeme Shankland was a planner hired by the council. His vision for Liverpool was to tear down much of the centre and replace it with “robust and manly” new buildings encompassed by an inner motorway on stilts. liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/2025/03/12/s...

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Concrete is beautiful: the Shankland master-plan | Liverpool People's History

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Liverpool People's History @liverpoolph.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

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Concrete is beautiful: the Shankland master-plan | Liverpool People's History

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Liverpool People's History @liverpoolph.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Liverpool People’s History is intended as a collaborative project and public participation is strongly encouraged. liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/about-liverp...

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About the People’s History website | Liverpool People's History

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Liverpool People's History @liverpoolph.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

The Liverpool People’s History project aims to tell the story of the city in the last decades of the 20th century – through the lives of the people who experienced it. liverpoolpeopleshistory.org

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Liverpool People's History | Revisiting the 1970s and 1980s

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Liverpool People's History @liverpoolph.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Litttlewoods football pools once provided jobs for thousands of Liverpool women. Former employees describe what it was like to work there. liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/2025/03/13/l...

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Littlewoods Pools: where women ‘never had time to get bored’ | Liverpool People's History

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Liverpool People's History @liverpoolph.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

In 1971 there were two notable court cases in Liverpool where black men accused of possessing cannabis were acquitted after claiming police had planted it – a practice known in the force as "agriculture". liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/2025/01/07/p...

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Police, drugs and ‘agriculture’ in Toxteth | Liverpool People's History

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Liverpool People's History @liverpoolph.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

The International Garden Festival in 1984 attracted more than three million visitors and helped to regenerate Liverpool. But what benefit did the visitors get from it? liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/2025/04/13/i...

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The International Garden Festival: a treat for ʽcomfortable Britain’ | Liverpool People's History

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Liverpool People's History @liverpoolph.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

The Fisher Bendix factory in Kirkby had been built with government help to ease unemployment in the area but it wasn’t a success. In 1972 when the owners tried to shut it down workers occupied the factory and later began running it themselves. liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/2025/01/07/b...

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Under new management: the Fisher Bendix story | Liverpool People's History

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Liverpool People's History @liverpoolph.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Liverpool People’s History is intended as a collaborative project and public participation is strongly encouraged. liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/about-liverp...

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About the People’s History website | Liverpool People's History

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Liverpool People's History @liverpoolph.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

The Liverpool People’s History project aims to tell the story of the city in the last decades of the 20th century – through the lives of the people who experienced it. liverpoolpeopleshistory.org

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Liverpool People's History | Revisiting the 1970s and 1980s

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