Podcasts
Download mp3 audio files of talks and events at our museums and galleries. Transcripts are also available with each podcast.
A guide to listening to and downloading our podcasts can be found here.|
Category: Urban/social history
January 2011
Dr Richard Koeck talking about his research into archive film footage of Liverpool Overhead Railway. This project has been enabled by Northwest Vision and Media and the UK film Council's Digital Film Archive Fund supported by the National Lottery.
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Urban/social history
November 2008
A gallery talk by local historian Margaret Williams who discusses the Great War and its impact on the village of Port Sunlight.
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Urban/social history
January 2008
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?
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Urban/social history
December 2007
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
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Urban/social history, Temporary exhibitions
December 2007
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.
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Slavery and human rights, Urban/social history
December 2007
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.
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Slavery and human rights, Urban/social history
November 2007
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.
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Slavery and human rights, Urban/social history
November 2007
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
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Urban/social history
October 2007
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.
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Urban/social history
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