We hold regular free talks and lectures at our venues, and are making many of these available for either download or to 'listen again' through your computer.
This directory holds mp3 files and transcripts. For information on using these files see 4 ways to listen.
Photographer Stephen Shakeshaft gives a talk about his exhibition of pictures of Liverpool people.
10MB, 22.9 mins
Categories: Photography, Temporary exhibitions, Urban/social history
Talks about the development of civil rights, as part of the US Black History Month events
23.6MB, 51.22 mins
Categories: Slavery and human rights, Urban/social history
A gallery talk by local historian Margaret Williams who discusses the Great War and its impact on the village of Port Sunlight.
14.2MB, 31.59 mins
Categories: Urban/social history
Talk by Nicolette Jones on Samuel Plimsoll, after whom the Plimsoll line is named.
21.6MB, 47.10 mins
Nicolette Jones
Categories: Maritime history, Urban/social history
Introductory speeches from the third of public forums, looking at the galleries of the forthcoming Museum of Liverpool. This session looks at what makes a scouser, how place impacts on identity and is there a Liverpool spirit?
23.1MB, 49.16 mins
Categories: Urban/social history
Dr Jon Murden and Dr Liz Stewart give a tour of the Magical History Tour exhibition, which charts 800 years of the city's history from its origins as a small village to the European Capital of Culture 2008
13.9MB, 30.51 mins
Categories: Urban/social history, Temporary exhibitions
Dr Mark Christian, associate professor of Sociology and Black World Studies at Miami University uses the case study of Liverpool’s apology for its role in the Transatlantic Slave Trade to explore the concept of slave apologies.
21.9MB, 47.53 mins
Categories: Slavery and human rights, Urban/social history
Esther Stanford (community law educational practitioner consultant and scholar activist in jurisprudence) and Dorothy Kuya (co-opted trustee of National Museums Liverpool and member of the International Slavery Museum council) lead a lively public debate about reparations to the continent of Africa and the African diaspora.
24.4MB, 42.56 mins
Categories: Slavery and human rights, Urban/social history
Professor Marcus Rediker from the University of Pittsburg and author of 'The Slave Ship: A Human History', gives a fascinating talk on the horrors and realities of life and death on a transatlantic slave ship.
31.9MB, 67.57 mins
Categories: Slavery and human rights, Urban/social history
Introductory speeches from the second of a series of public forums, each looking at one of the four themed galleries planned for the Museum Liverpool. This forum investigates themes relating to the Global City gallery
19.4MB, 42.56 mins
Categories: Urban/social history
In the first of our public discussions around the themes of the new Museum of Liverpool, Adrian Jarvis, Robert Lee and Ken Pye look at Liverpool as a port city.
22.87MB, 49.47 mins
Categories: Urban/social history
Dr Paul O'Keeffe delivers an object of the month talk on 'Lutyen's Cathedral' at the Walker Art Gallery.
17.2MB, 37.46 mins
Categories: Decorative arts, Urban/social history
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