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New book reveals Italian connection in Liverpool

DEBRA D’ANNUNZIO shows Flo Clucas, deputy leader of Liverpool City Council, a copy of her book about how Italian families settled in Liverpool in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Read

David Charters: I feel that the crack on the face should be seen and the one on the bottom hidden

FAMILIAR ears sensed that the customary effervescence was absent in the tones of a colleague describing the crack, which opened like a rail tunnel to Lower Scunthorpe, every time her plumber hunkered down to examine the innards of a sullen boiler.Read

Obituary: Marie Roberts

SHE knew the jugglers and tumblers and costumed chimps, the harlequins, the elephants on stools, the tamed lions, high-wire walk- ers and painted ponies, in the grand old days when a clown could miss his cue and everyone would gasp be- cause it was true entertain- ment – and people would nudge each other in the seats around the ring and say: “You know that girl in the se- quins hanging onto the rope with her teeth, wasn’t she selling ice creams before?”Read

Obituary: Dame Maeve Fort

SHE was Britain’s most successful female diplomat, a charming woman of verve and style, who travelled widely, but found her natural habitat in good shops.Read

Obituary: John Bown

THE front page of the Diocese of Winchester Clergy Noticeboard, in February, 2005, noted that the Right Reverend James Jones, Bishop of Liverpool, was to deliver a Lent Lecture on the Icon of God.Read

David Charters: Perfection escapes us all

WHEN I was falling off the ladder, it would be an exaggeration to say that my whole life flashed before me.Read

Emily Burningham, with pictures and archive material at the Aldham Robarts Learning Resourse Centre, at JMU Maryland Street

A celebration of British eccentricity

THROUGHOUT life, people leave us the clues and ideas behind their great works, as is revealed in a fascinating Liverpool archive about to be opened. David Charters reportsRead

Obituary: Jimmy Sirrel

HE WAS a footballer from another time zone – thick hair parted in the middle, aeronautical ears, the bulbous nose of a music-hall comic and a bony, unsunned chest between wide, jagged elbows.Read

Obituary: Celia Gregory

NINETY-FIVE per cent of the world’s population had been wiped out before she became a household face.Read

The Italians’ jobs

A LIVERPOOL writer’s ancestors started Liverpool’s Little Italy – and now their story is to be read in Rome. David Charters reportsRead

Young writers urged to compete for prestigious Athenaeum award

HILARY GATENBY, president of the Liverpool Athenaeum, and Frank Moran, a former president, hosted a lunch this week for the two immediate past winners of the institution’s literary prize.Read

Obituary: William Woodruff

HE was born on straw spread over a pallet in a room by a cotton mill, where his mother was back at her weaving post two days laterRead

Obituary: James Crumley

IN AMERICA, there is a trail of bruised glasses, screwed-up hopes, broken shaving mirrors, yearning women and empty bar-stools, left in the shadows by writers, inevitably described as “hardboiled” by critics, who often tried to imitate their style, but could never quite do it.Read

Obituary: Eric Longworth

HIS thin face seemed sucked of humour, so, when he cleared his throat in an authoritative manner, all frivolity ceased and he became the embodiment of officialdom.Read

David Charters: The man who uses the same teabag twice is unlikely to be a friend to the orphan

THE pompous economist on the wireless was offering his opinion about the financial catastrophe, which threatens to ruin us all.Read

Obituary: Earl Palmer

WHEN rock was young, he was the drummer – a man who understood the music through race, soul, sex, family and experience.Read

Obituary: Harry Challenor

SHOULD a brave man also be a good man? The question is usually answered in the affirmative by Hollywood.Read

It’s faith, not truth, that’s out there

Despite profound personal sorrows, a clergyman has mounted a robust defence of religious faith against the scientists who dismiss God. David Charters reportsRead

Obituary: Norman Whitfield

WHEN he saw the soul singer Smokey Robinson sitting as cool as you like in a Cadillac, the pool player became a tambourine man on his way to writing and producing some of the songs which would define his era.Read

Obituary: Richard Duggan

HE WAS a grand family man with a generous smile and many gifts – high among which was an ebullient humour, sometimes exercised on the touch-line of sporting events, where he never felt that his own wry observations should be restrained by a comparatively modest experience of mud and crunching bones.Read

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