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Julian Rathbone

HE SPRANG forth in a fedora hat from a revered clan of thinkers, bankers, Unitarians, reformers, poets, shipbuilders, non-conformist politicians and all-purpose do-gooders, who provided Liverpool, where they had settled in the early 18th century, with its first university, libraries and public buildings – while spinning around the educated middle-classes a sense of moral and social purpose. Read

Mike Smith

THERE was a swaggering suggestion of hod-carriers on a building site about them and the thunderous drumming on their early records certainly rumbled the ground, but they were hailed in the press as the first Beatle-beaters. Read

Proud citizens of a world apart

Proud citizens of a world apart

THE whole world should feel Liverpudlian, say the enthusiasts behind leaflets helping tourists appreciate the city’s sculptural glories. David Charters reports Read

David Charters: The Obituarist's job is to tuck his subjects safely into Heaven

"THE job of an obituarist is to see his men and women safely tucked-up in Heaven,” I thought while sitting on the floor, sprinkling my woollen bedsocks with gently scented talcum powder. Read

Archie Hind

AT FIRST, you would not have thought the elegant singer with the perfectly groomed hair had much in common with the gently-smiling, rangy figure with his grizzled beard and lumberjack shirt. Read

William FBuckley Jr

IN THE days of long hair and elasticated morals, when the philosophy of doing your own thing was all the rage, right-wing thinkers in American were invariably characterised as crude red-necks eager to pull the trigger – that was before the emergence on TV of William F Buckley Jr, son of oil money. Read

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Earthquake: David Charters takes a whimsical look at Britons enjoying a crisis

ON the day the nation was gripped by an earthquake, David Charters takes a whimsical look at Britons enjoying a crisis Read

The funeral of Brian Harris

Everton stars pay final respects as Goodison stalwart is laid to rest

THEY carried him past Goodison Park again yesterday. Read

Llyn Gwynant, Snowdonia

What a difference a day could make

AS well as being Liverpool’s Capital of Culture year, 2008 is a leap year. So, as we are blessed with this wondrous spare day, the Daily Post features team muse on how, in an ideal world, they would spend February 29 – if they weren’t in the office Read

Pearl Cornioley

Pearl Cornioley

WHEN she stepped ashore in Liverpool, there was a gentle beauty in her eyes, but the Girl Guides had given her a toughness of spirit and sinew, not entirely suited to her job as a shorthand/typist. Read

David Charters: Somewhere up in the sky, I heard an angel chortle

PERHAPS, in those slow-smiling, biscuit-dunking moments of warm sighs, you can imagine the pink and blue angels in Heaven sitting at their desks with wings neatly folded, chortling behind their hands, as God shows them his design for the cocker spaniel. Read

Sunny Lowry

AFTER devouring an eight-omelette breakfast and smearing her body with lanolin and chilli paste, the great swimmer might have considered for a moment her second cousin, LS Lowry, then establishing his reputation as the painter of matchstick people. Read

A haven from an unsympathetic world

A haven from an unsympathetic world

FORTY years ago, determined parents vowed that their children would have a safe place in a special community for people who will always be a little different. David Charters reports Read

Tamara Desni

THIS darling of the British stage, raised in Berlin between the world wars, had inviting lips, shapely legs and five husbands – as was eagerly noted by an adoring public during her career, in which she helped save a magnificent London theatre and duetted with Laurence Olivier, when he was courting the fiery Vivien Leigh. Read

It takes a real man to wear the kilt

ON every foreign field, where their tartan is buried, can be found a little bit of Liverpool. A new book tells of the city’s famous Scottish soldiers. David Charters reports Read

Emily Perry

SHE WAS created at the age of 80 by a brilliant man, who dressed as a woman to produce a character possessed of both lacerating wit and billowing absurdity. Read

Brian Harris

HE WAS a broth of a boy, quick as the blink of an eye at mental arithmetic and a splendid representative of his school at athletics as well as team games – doubtless helped by a father who taught him to dribble a football between bricks, following the unwavering logic that you don’t want to bruise your toes more than once. Read

David Charters: Endangered species rarely seen by the eyes of men. Women call it an ironing board

SWOLLEN bags of cloud, in every shade of weeping-grey, teased the sky over the village shop, where the bear-like man stood, thinking. Read

Steve Fossett

NATURE had not blessed him with the qualities of the regular team player, so the smiling philosopher, with a lust to leave his mark on the world, looked to the wider fields of sporting achievement, breaking numerous records. Read

David Charters: Raise your glasses to romance

"PEOPLE with an eye for such matters say she’s a bit like Brigitte Bardot,” volunteered my pal Brian, as he drew on the cunning of a stoat to persuade me to join him and his girlfriend in a foursome. Read

Author Profile

Award-winning feature writer and columnist David Charters is a highly-respected journalist and author whose hugely-popular weekly column is now available in print and podcast format. Tel: 0151 4722427

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