Liverpool: City of Radicals
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
Uncontrollable, anarchic, and alienated from mainstream England, the Liverpool of popular British imagination is a hotbed of radicalism and creativity. This reputation is richly deserved, as the city has played host to a surprising number of radical events and innovations over the past century. Starting its chronicle in 1911, Liverpool: City of Radicals surveys the role of Liverpool in a wide range of fields, examining events including the near revolution of the Liverpool Transport Strike. Exploring one hundred years of art, music, politics, football, architecture, and theater, the bookconcludes with a look at the city today and what role radicalism will continue to play in its future.
Foreword
Phil Redmond
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: A Democratic Promenade
John Belchem and Bryan Biggs
1. Radical Prelude: 1911
John Belchem
2. Rebulding the Temple: Modernism with Ancestry in the Liverpool School of Architecture
Peter Richmond
3. Radical Art City?
Bryan Biggs
4. The Revolution Will Not Be Dramatised
Roger Hill
5. The Heavens Above and the Dirt Below: Liverpool’s Radical Music
Paul Du Noyer
6. Women and Radicalism in Liverpool, c.1890-1930
Krista Cowman
7. The Liverpool Way, the Matchless Kop and the Anny Road Boys: Notes on the Contradictions in Liverpool Football Supporter Radicalism
John Williams
8. Liverpool 1911 and its Era: Foundational Myth or Authentic Tradition?
Mark O’Brien
9. From the Ground Up: Radical Liverpool Now
Kenn Taylor
10. Scouse and the City: Radicalism and Identity in Contemporary Liverpool
Clare Devaney
Radical Soundings
Index
History: European History
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