Liverpool : city of radicals / edited by John Belchem and Bryan Biggs.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Belchem, John.

Biggs, Bryan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Radicalism--England--Liverpool--History--20th century.

Radicalism.

History.

Liverpool (England)--History--20th century.

Liverpool (England).

Liverpool (England)--Intellectual life--20th century.

England--Liverpool.

Physical Description:

xii, 207 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2011.

Summary:

Uncontrollable, anarchic, separate and alienated from mainstream England, the Liverpool of popular imagination is a hotbed; of radicalism, and creativity. But is that reputation really justified? Starting in 1911, a year which saw a warship on the Mersey suppressing near revolution in the Liverpool Transport Strike, Picasso, Matisse and the Post-Impressionists exhibiting alongside local artists at the Bluecoat, and the opening of the Liver Building, the first major building in the UK constructed from reinforced concrete and crowned by two liver birds that came to symbolise the city's resilience, this fascinating book looks at one hundred years of radicals and radicalism in Liverpool.

Ranging widely across a century of politics, music, football, theatre, architecture and art, Liverpool: City of Radicals concludes with a look at the contemporary city and asks what role radicalism can play in the future of Liverpool.

John Belchem is Professor of History and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Liverpool, and Director of the Institute of Cultural Capital, Liverpool. He is the editor of Liverpool 800: Culture, Character and History and author of Irish, Catholic and Scouse: The History of the Liverpool Irish, 1800-1940 and Merseypride: Esssays in Liverpool Exceptionalism. Bryan Biggs is Artistic Director at the Bluecoat, and editor (with Helen Tookey) of Malcolm Lowry: From the Mersey to the World and (with Julie Sheldon) Art in a City Revisited. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Radical Prelude: 1911 / John Belchem Belchem, John 14

2 Rebuilding the Temple: Modernism with Ancestry in the Liverpool School of Architecture / Peter Richmond Richmond, Peter 41

3 Radical Art City? / Bryan Biggs Biggs, Bryan 61

4 The Revolution Will Not Be Dramatised / Roger Hill Hill, Roger 84

5 The Heavens Above and the Dirt Below: Liverpool's Radical Music / Paul Du Noyer Noyer, Paul Du 96

6 Women and Radicalism in Liverpool, c.1890-1930 / Krista Cowman Cowman, Krista 108

7 The Liverpool Way, the Matchless Kop and the Anny Road Boys: Notes on the Contradictions in Liverpool Football Supporter Radicalism / John Williams Williams, John 123

8 Liverpool 1911 and its Era: Foundational Myth or Authentic Tradition? / Mark O'Brien O'Brien, Mark 140

9 From the Ground Up: Radical Liverpool Now / Kenn Taylor Taylor, Kenn 159

10 Scouse and the City: Radicalism and Identity in Contemporary Liverpool / Clare Devaney Devaney, Clare 172.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1846316472

9781846316470

OCLC:

698911854