Welcome to a cartoon Liverpool history.

Discover there is more to the history of Liverpool than the slave trade, Irish immigration and The Beatles!

Click image to read about the History of Roman Liverpool .

We never had an amphitheatre to play footy in,

but there was definitely something going on in Liverpool during Roman Times.

Read about the Ancient tattoo covered scouse Britons, The Tarbock Tile Factory and where the Romans ‘may’ have been in the Roman Era.

Basically, if you avoided being shipped off to Rome as a slave, you’d be “Optimus Primus”.

Click image to read about the Normans arriving in 1066.

Discover the scouse connections with the Battle of Hastings.

Find out how people in Anglo-Saxon West Derby trained killer hawks.

Read what the Domesday book said about YOUR ancestors.

See what West Derby Castle looked like,

and learn what the West Derby Hundred was all about.

Basically, if you could speak French, avoided getting an arrow in the eye and knew the right people, you’d be “bien”.

Next, read about Liverpool history in medieval times.

Find out how Liverpool gets its name.

Learn that King John wasn’t such a bad guy after all.

See what Liverpool Castle looked like.

It was good enough for Royalty to stay there!

Discover your place in the medieval feudal system.

Basically, if you avoided the deadly bubonic plague and knew how to make something, medieval Liverpool was not half as bad as might think…

Read the ‘forgotten’ History of Liverpool during the Late Middle Ages.

Discover how rich rivals, the Molyneux and Stanley families,

nearly tore town apart with a 3000 men riot.

Scousers fight France at the Battle of Agincourt

and bring an end to the War of the Roses

Squirm when the Princes in the Tower meet their fate via deadly scouse hands…

Basically, if you could hold a pitchfork, or better still a sword, you’d be knighted.

The English Civil War comes to town.

It’s Crown versus Parliament in the Civil War.

Killing more people than the first and second world wars combined.

10,000 men attack Liverpool Castle but and dashing

Prince Rupert arrives (with his dog and ‘invisible’ monkey) to save the day.

The King’s head was chopped off and Christmas was cancelled!!!

Basically, providing you didn’t actually live in England during this period… you’d be alright!

Sailors, Sailboats, Slaves and Sugar… Lots of Sugar

Liverpool becomes a centre of world trade.

It was piracy – plundering other ships on the seven seas – and not slavery

that brought the main wealth to Liverpool.

Liverpool merchants make millions from importing sugar

as soon Georgian Liverpool becomes the tooth decay capital of the world!

Basically, if you avoided being Shanghaied

and brushed your teeth with something other than gin, you’d be ship-shape matey.

Victorian Liverpool – The Tale of Two Cities

Liverpool becomes the second most powerful city in the world.

With Stephenson’s Rocket, we give birth to Railways.

Discover the history of Liverpool and Everton football clubs.

and learn that St George’s Hall wasn’t built back-to-front after all!

Basically, if you avoided cholera, street crime and Spring-heeled Jack

then you could have a jolly good time indeed.



Führer across the Mersey – Liverpool At War

Learn about Adolf Hitler living in Liverpool.

Yes, Hitler didn’t just bomb our chippy, he could have worked in it!

Discover the truth and half-truths about the Hitler family that lived in Liverpool.

Rationing, Evacuation and the World War II blitz.

Basically, if you managed to be evacuated out to the Welsh countryside

and knew how to say more than “Yaki da”, you’d be yn ddiogel!



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