Overview
OUR LIVERPOOL is an oral history about the real Liverpool - about the city before its slick transformation to European City of Culture - and about the spirit that remains at its heart. Here, at last, is Liverpool's grievous and glorious past. And here, through the people's voices, we find old Liverpool, without the gift-wrap. Its stories pulsate with the rhythms of an alternately funny, flippant, belligerent, stubborn and warm heart, and they broadcast the values of a community, which are the city's true legacy to the modern world. Piers Dudgeon has listened to dozens of people who remember the city as it was, and who have lived through its many changes. They talk of childhood and education, of work and entertainment, of family, community values, health, politics, religion and music. Their stories will make you laugh and cry. It is people's own memories that make history real and this engrossing book captures them vividly.
Full Product Details
Author: Piers Dudgeon
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
Imprint: Headline Review
Dimensions:
Width: 12.90cm
, Height: 2.70cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.301kg
ISBN: 9780755317165
ISBN 10: 0755317165
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 09 June 2011
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
'These are stories told by those who remember life in Liverpool long before its transformation and vividly reveal its heart, humour, enduring strength and spirit' Choice Magazine 'An enchanting book. A glorious triumph! I took it to bed the night I received it and wallowed for hours. A must for the book shelf' Anne Robinson It brings back clear memories of the Liverpool that was still there in my childhood but which has now disappeared' Cherie Blair 'This is warts and all Liverpool... the heart of Liverpool, becasue the people's voice is at the centre of it' Roger Phillips, BBC Radio Merseyside
'These are stories told by those who remember life in Liverpool long before its transformation and vividly reveal its heart, humour, enduring strength and spirit' -- Choice Magazine 'An enchanting book. A glorious triumph! I took it to bed the night I received it and wallowed for hours. A must for the book shelf' -- Anne Robinson It brings back clear memories of the Liverpool that was still there in my childhood but which has now disappeared' -- Cherie Blair 'This is warts and all Liverpool... the heart of Liverpool, becasue the people's voice is at the centre of it' -- Roger Phillips, BBC Radio Merseyside
'Dudgeon bounds through his topics with energy and...erudition' -- The Herald
Author Information
Piers Dudgeon is a writer, editor and photographer. He worked for ten years as a publisher in London and then started his own company, publishing a number of bestsellers. Since 1989 he has worked as a journalist and written nine works of non-fiction. In 1993 he moved with his wife and three children to the North Yorkshire moors, where he is setting up a residential school for writers and artists.
