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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 reports 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 reports Read

Warship’s final voyage to be recycled in Liverpool

THE first warship to be recycled in the UK for more than a decade docked in Liverpool yesterday. Read

The Yellow Duckmarine passes the lightship Planet, moored in her controversial berth in Albert Dock, Liverpool

Mersey Bar lightship Planet saved

Rumours were rife that Planet, arguably Liverpool’s most famous ship afloat, would be sold abroad after Albert Dock managers rejected giving it a permanent berth. Read

Bell from battleship built by a city returns home

A BELL from HMS Prince of Wales, the battleship adopted by Liverpool which helped sink the Bismarck during World War II, has returned to the city. Read

Liverpudlian heroes unnoticed in the crowd

FROM glory to destitution, life was often cruel for Liverpool’s bravest of the brave, as a new book about VCs tells us. David Charters reports. Read

Max Monsarrat with his father's scrapbook at Liverpool Athenaeum with Peter Elson

Archive of author of The Cruel Sea will prove a magnet for Liverpool scholars

SUPPORT for the Daily Post campaign to bring the archive of The Cruel Sea author Nicholas Monsarrat to Liverpool has come from a most important source – his eldest son, Max. Read

Naval crew in city march of freedom

THE crew of Royal Navy assault ship HMS Albion paraded through Chester yesterday as they exercised the ship’s freedom of the city. Read

Discover some of our hidden gems

Heritage Open Days give the public an unrivalled chance to explore places both famous and secret, as Peter Elson reports Read

Liver Bird, on Mersey Chambers

Liverpool Daily Post Hidden Sculpture Walk

THE Daily Post’s Hidden Sculpture Walk takes you on a tour of public art in Liverpool city centre, from historic pieces, such as the art deco figures of Night and Day on the Georges Dock Building, to modern works including those created for the International Garden Festival. Read

Sean Keyes from Sutcliffe engineers infront of the Liver Building

The future's bright for Liverpool's old buildings

PETER Elson finds that Liverpool is as much a city of engineering as of architecture as Britain celebrates a century of structural engineering. Read

TA digs up pictures of a regiment at war

POIGNANT photographs of soldiers from Warrington and St Helens before and during World War I have been unearthed as part of the centenary celebrations of the Territorial Army. Read

Nadina Osmani

Life is as fragile as the flip of a coin

As Radovan Karadzic stands trial for war crimes, Crosby student Nadina Osmani recounts her own family’s escape from war-torn Bosnia 16 years ago, and how she has come to regard Liverpool as home Read

Peter Grant with Ken Dodd

The Scouse accent: Dey talk like dat, don’t dey?

RESEARCHINHG his new book about the Scouse accent was a very personal journey for journalist Peter Grant. Here he recalls the experience Read

Ben Murphy, at the Princes Park gates

New book reveals the historic heritage of Liverpool’s famous open spaces

WE take our parklands for granted, but here David Charters reveals their origins Read

Colin Lane, photographer

Life as seen through the lens

DAILY Post photographer Colin Lane has added another three major awards to his already packed glass cabinet. Here he shares his favourite images. Read

Wartime pic of Pitt Street in Liverpool's Chinatown

Skeletons in the cupboard that didn’t rattle

LIVERPOOL'S links to Shanghai have been well chronicled with the advent of the Olympics. Emma Pinch meets a woman who discovered her connections to the Chinese city run deep. Read

Florence Maybrick

Was Florence Maybrick really a killer?

More than a century after she walked free from jail a new book questions whether Florence Maybrick should ever have been convicted of poisoning her husband. Laura Davis reports Read

The Daily Post's Peter Elson oils up A4 class steam loco Union of South Africa

Steaming ahead to a bygone age

AFTER steam trains were banned 40 years ago by British Railways, Peter Elson experiences their triumphant return to Liverpool Read

Iconic father of Liverpool’s culture

Iconic father of Liverpool’s culture

WHEN musing on Liverpool’s culture, our thoughts turn to the masters of baton, string and wind, letters, clay and canvas, but who was our first Renaissance man? David Charters reports Read

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