Fun in the dismal days of Thatcherism: ‘The End’ magazine was produced by the young and read by the young. It talked mainly about football, music, beer and made jokes about life without a job. The End had plenty of attitude and was often outrageous .../

Trouble in toytown: When the Meccano factory suddenly closed down in 1979, workers fought back by occupying the premises. liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/2026/03/22/t...

Slum clearance in the 1960s and 1970s separated people from friends and neighbours they had known for years. Tens of thousands were “decanted” to new estates on the edges of Liverpool .../

The early years of Women’s Liberation: How the movement evolved on Merseyside in the 1970s and 1980s, by @racheljcollett. liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/2025/04/24/t...

(1/3) In the 1970s gypsies and other itinerant caravan dwellers faced constant battles with the authorities due to a lack of places where they could legally camp.

1/6 In March 1970 some 300 students occupied the Senate House at Liverpool University and hoisted a red flag over the building. liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/2025/03/12/l...

1/4 Activists campaigning against Britain’s military presence in Northern Ireland faced surveillance and prosecution during the 1970s. liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/2025/01/07/s...

1/6 In the early 1960s Liverpool’s council was seeking to redevelop the city— especially its centre — on more modern lines. The man hired for this task was Graeme Shankland, widely regarded as the archetype of a rampant city planner. liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/2025/03/12/s...

1/3 Littlewoods Pools was once a household name in Britain. Before the National Lottery arrived, millions of people filled in a weekly Pools coupon, hoping to win a fortune by predicting the outcome of football matches. Every coupon had to be checked and in the pre-computer age it was a massive task

Community Health Councils were established in 1974 to monitor NHS performance and represent the views of patients and the public. In Liverpool, though, their efforts improve health services were constantly battered by spending cuts and closures. liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/2025/05/22/n...

In 1973 government inspectors visited the Scotland Road Free School and produced a report which was not made public at the time. Liverpool People's History has tracked down a copy in the National Archives at Kew – and its content is devastating. liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/2025/05/18/s...

Today is the 51st anniversary of the opening of News from Nowhere, Liverpool's long-surviving radical bookshop. Mandy Vere, who worked there for 45 years tells its story. bsky.app/profile/live...

NEW ON THE WEBSITE: historian Rachel Collett traces the growth of the Women’s Liberation Movement on Merseyside through the 1970s and 1980s. liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/2025/04/24/t...

Graeme Shankland was a planner hired by the council. His vision for Liverpool was to tear down much of the centre and replace it with “robust and manly” new buildings encompassed by an inner motorway on stilts. liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/2025/03/12/s...

Graeme Shankland was a planner hired by the council. His vision for Liverpool was to tear down much of the centre and replace it with “robust and manly” new buildings encompassed by an inner motorway on stilts. liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/2025/03/12/s...

Liverpool People’s History is intended as a collaborative project and public participation is strongly encouraged. liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/about-liverp...

The Liverpool People’s History project aims to tell the story of the city in the last decades of the 20th century – through the lives of the people who experienced it. liverpoolpeopleshistory.org

Litttlewoods football pools once provided jobs for thousands of Liverpool women. Former employees describe what it was like to work there. liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/2025/03/13/l...

In 1971 there were two notable court cases in Liverpool where black men accused of possessing cannabis were acquitted after claiming police had planted it – a practice known in the force as "agriculture". liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/2025/01/07/p...

The International Garden Festival in 1984 attracted more than three million visitors and helped to regenerate Liverpool. But what benefit did the visitors get from it? liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/2025/04/13/i...

The Fisher Bendix factory in Kirkby had been built with government help to ease unemployment in the area but it wasn’t a success. In 1972 when the owners tried to shut it down workers occupied the factory and later began running it themselves. liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/2025/01/07/b...

Liverpool People’s History is intended as a collaborative project and public participation is strongly encouraged. liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/about-liverp...

The Liverpool People’s History project aims to tell the story of the city in the last decades of the 20th century – through the lives of the people who experienced it. liverpoolpeopleshistory.org