One Bloke: A Manchester man’s tale of two decades

Author Paul Graney with Barry Seddon
ISBN: 1908457028
Price £7.99

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Paul Graney always thought of himself as just another working man. Yet he led an extraordinary life in turbulent times. In the 1920s, he joined thousands of others on the road in search of work. He took part in Hunger Marches, fought against Mosely’s fascists, joined the Kinder Scout mass trespasses and travelled to Germany to witness the rise of Hitler. In another guise, he was active in agit prop theatre, working with Joan Littlewood and helping Walter Greenwood, author of Love on the Dole. Later, he gained national recognition as a collector of local songs and stories. A fascinating read.

Picture Post on Liverpool
Author: Colin Wilkinson
ISBN: 9781908457059
Price: £9.99

A fascinating record of the way in which Liverpool was represented in Picture Post magazine, with many previously unpublished images.
Superbly illustrated, the book contains all the main articles that were written about the city.

Available from Amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1908457058

Spirits in the Vaults: Liverpool’s Haunted Pubs

Author Tom Slemen
ISBN 9781908457011
Price £6.99

A new collection from master storyteller Tom Slemen. Here Tom chronicles some of the many hauntings connected with local hostelries including the Swan, the Vines, the Oxford, Childwall Abbey, the Coffee House in Wavertree and the Belvedere.

Murder on Merseyside
Author Tom Slemen
ISBN: 9781908457004
Price: £6.99

Favourite author, Tom Slemen, turns his attention to some of Merseyside’s infamous murders, adding his own inimitable interpretations.

The Hitlers of Liverpool
Author: Michael Unger
ISBN: 9781904438991
Price: £7.79

‘An extraordinary account … an excellent book.’ Beryl Bainbridge

In 1910, 17 year-old Irish girl Brigid Dowling arrived in Liverpool to marry Alois Hitler. They settle down in Upper Stanhope Street and produce a son, William Patrick. In 1912, a dishevelled draft-dodger arrives at Lime Street station – Alois’s half-brother Adolf. So begins an extraordinary account – based on Brigid’s unpublished memoirs found in a New York library.

Like You’ve Never Been Away
Author: Paul Trevor
Price £9.99

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In 1975, Paul Trevor came to Liverpool to photograph Liverpool’s urban deprivation for the Exit Photography Group. His photographs of children in Everton and Toxteth brilliantly capture the exuberance of youth in a setting of urban decay. A genuinely uplifting book which is published to coincide with Paul’s major retrospective at the Walker Art Gallery.

The Streets of Liverpool
Author: Colin Wilkinson
ISBN: 9781904438984
Price £9.99

Release date: April 17th

Based on the very popular Streets of Liverpool blog, which is attracting over 7,000 monthly readers.
A selection of fascinating previously unpublished images supported by a lively commentary. An additional bonus is the inclusion of Bartholomew’s 1928 colour street atlas – making the book a must for all local and family historians.

Beasts, Banshees and Bogeymen
Author: Tom Slemen
ISBN 9781904438540
RP £7.99

Colin Wilkinson, managing director of Bluecoat Press also has a popular blog, Streets of Liverpool.

Colin says about the blog:

The idea for a site dedicated to photographs of Liverpool came out of my work as a publisher. I set up The Bluecoat Press in 1992 and have published over 200 books on local history and related themes. My particular interest is the visual image (I have been involved in photography for many years and set up the city’s Open Eye Gallery in 1977).

Over the years, I have collected a substantial archive photographs documenting Liverpool in the 19th and 20th centuries and have attempted, through Bluecoat Press’s books, to bring them to a wider audience.

One of my main aims as a publisher has been to create awareness of the thousands of images that are stored in archives, public and private. Liverpool is fortunate in that so much of its history has been documented photographically but, all too often, it is difficult for the public to access collections.

The internet is a tremendous (and free) way of opening up archives to a wider readership and Streets of Liverpool is my contribution towards encouraging a better understanding of Liverpool’s great history.

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