Glory days are here againThe Tablet

During Liverpool’s nineteenth-century heyday it forged an identity that survived decades of decline. Now it has burst forth once more with a new confidence. Supplement editor Peter Stanford introduces our survey of Europe’s Capital of Culture by asking what makes the city unique...

The Irish connection Free John Belchem

The women and men who arrived in Liverpool from Ireland in the nineteenth century may have been poor and often starving but they soon developed a communitarian culture whose strength eventually overcame prejudice and denigration, writes John Belchem...