Heritage
Kitty’s Launderette 5th Birthday Celebrations
Kitty’s Launderette is celebrating their 5th birthday on Saturday 20 July with a much loved street party! Featuring live music, food, drink and activities for kids. The party takes place at Kitty’s Launderette, 77 Grasmere St, Everton from 3pm – 9pm. AND on Sunday 21 July, Kitty’s Launderette are excited to host a special performance...
Heritage Open Day – Docklands Trail
Free heritage open day at Collingwood Docks, with free drama sessions for 8-13 year olds and storytelling. Saturday 13th July, join ArtsGroupie CIC at this exciting heritage site for free drama workshops, storytime, and a whole host of activities with our friends at Docklands Trail. Discover the history of North Liverpool & Bootle Docks by...
Roots & Resilience at The Bluecoat
Are you a young person with an interest in history? Do you want to learn new skills and share your creative practice? Join us to explore our history as the UK’s first arts centre, and think about our legacy as part of the story of Liverpool, its people and its artists. At Weekly workshops, we...
Liverpool MakeFest 2024
Go Green in the Library with Liverpool Makefest 2024 Liverpool MakeFest Returns to Liverpool Central Library this year and is Going Green! Liverpool MakeFest is the UK’s biggest FREE ‘Maker’ event, a one day hybrid technology, arts and craft festival where Makers from across the UK get together to share and show their projects to...
Peace and Love on Ringo’s Birthday
You have the rare opportunity to participate in Ringo’s annual birthday wish for peace and love in his hometown of Liverpool. Join Bev Carroll, the Ringo Peace and Love Ambassador for Liverpool, The Beatles Story team, Magical Mystery Tour team, Strawberry Field team and fellow Beatles enthusiasts in celebrating Ringo’s birthday wish to spread Peace...
The Butterfly Ball
Calling all social butterflies young and small we are going to have a ball! To celebrate the opening of our new ‘Botanicals’ Exhibition in Liverpool Central Library we are hosting a Butterfly Ball for all the family. Inspired by the poem written by politician and ecologist Willian Roscoe this free family focused event will take...
Cunard Craft – Lino Printing
Take some time out of your Friday morning and come and try your hand at lino printing– with a Cunard twist and all for free! Linocut techniques will be used to create designs inspired by Cunard’s heritage. There will be ready-made linocuts that can be used for printing. Once created, your linocut can be used...
University of Liverpool Cunard Archives
The University of Liverpool Library is home to a special and unique collection of Cunard archives, containing most of the surviving business records produced by Cunard since it became a limited company in 1878 – an invaluable resource for researching Cunard’s growth and development. Occupying over 400 linear metres, the archive is arranged to reflect...
Celebrating Cunard’s Majestic Historical Past
The Centre for Port and Maritime History (CPMH) is a collaborative venture between Liverpool John Moores University, the Maritime Museum and the University of Liverpool. Following on from the success of the public lectures delivered at the Maritime Museum for Cunard 175, the lectures will return, this time at Open Eye Gallery to mark the...
Cunard in the Archives
Join staff from Liverpool Record Office and The National Trust to see a selection of photographs spanning 80 years from the 1920s to the 2000s, showcasing Liverpool’s rich maritime history. Come and see images from Liverpool’s City Engineers collection which includes aerial views of the docks and Pier Head, along with images of the iconic...