The Big History Show at St Georges Hall

[munchkim]

The Big History Show - 800 Years of Liverpool comes to the Cultural Quarter between 14 and 16 September for the biggest-ever celebration of history in the city's 800th birthday year!

As a major event the Liverpool Culture Company and partners are holding the largest ever local history fair and conference. Held in the Cultural Quarter over three days, the event will be a fusion of academic historians who have studied Liverpool's history in depth with the passion of local people who care about their heritage.

This special occasion will be opened by Roger McGough CBE who will be giving readings from the specially commissioned poem the Liverpool Saga, on Saturday September 15th at 1pm, in the Concert Room. Free tickets to see Roger McGough are available from BBC Radio Merseyside shop, Hanover Street.

Local History Fair
Taking place across the Cultural Quarter in St George's Hall, World Museum Liverpool and Central Library is a unique fair of cultural heritage organisations across Merseyside. Alongside the fair will be presentations by many of these groups, talks by local celebrities, shows of archival films and displays of historical artefacts.

Liverpool: a sense of time and place
This two day international conference in which leading academics explore the rich heritage of Liverpool and its impact on the city, will take place in the stunning Concert Room on Friday 14th and Saturday 16th September. If you ever wondered what made Liverpool the place it is today, this conference is for you. For full conference details please click Big History Conference

Celebrations on the plateau
St George's Hall plateau will be the stage for performances by local groups including the Arabic Arts Festival, Irish guard singers and the King's Regiment band. There will be a display of classic cars and vintage vehicles. The Radio Merseyside bus will broadcast live from the event, and the 08 Roadshow will offer the latest news on Capital of Culture.

Tours
Maghull Coaches City Sight Seeing tours will be running a tour of the city centre each day from 12 noon, from St George's Hall plateau.

Refreshments
Refreshments available from The Minton Tea Room, St George's Hall, the 2 cafes in World Museum Liverpool and the café in The Walker Art Gallery, all situated within the Cultural Quarter as well as the many other restaurants in the vicinity.

Tickets
Tickets cost £2.00 and are available from the 08 Place Whitechapel,
St George's Hall Heritage Centre, St Johns Lane and BBC Radio Merseyside Shop, 31 College Lane

To attend the conference Liverpool: a sense of time and place, please contact Liverpool John Moores University Event Services on 0151 231 3668 or email events@ljmu.ac.uk

Also below is a list of talks which can be attended. I believe the admission ticket includes for attendance at 2 talks

History Talks
Programme

Friday 14 September Concert Room
1pm Frank Carlisle - Liverpool’s Architecture
Friday 14 September Court Room
1pm Williamson Tunnels - Clare Moorhead
2pm Steve Binns – ‘The Shadow of the Noose’
3pm Steven Done – Liverpool Football Club
4pm David Stoker – ‘Free Borough on the Sea’- Liverpool’s Charters

Saturday 15 September Court Room
11am Steve Binns –‘ The Misery of the Court Room’
12pm Mike Royden – History of Otterspool
1pm Frank Carlyle – ‘Great Military Local Heroes’
2pm Christina Spencer – The History of The Bibby Line
3pm Rex Makin – ‘A Peep into the Past’
4pm Janet Dugdale - Researching fantastic collections & amazing stories for the new Museum of Liverpool

Sunday 16 September Court Room
11am Steve Binns - ‘The Shadow of the Noose’
12pm John Curry – ‘The River That Changed the World’
1pm Vincent Burke – ‘The Hypnotic Killer Joseph Clarke’
2pm Rosemary Cook, Director Queens Nursing Institute
3pm Rex Makin – ‘A Peep into the Past’
4pm Dick Daglish - Liverpool St Helen’s Rugby Club

Sunday 16 September Concert Room
11am Frank Carlyle - Liverpool 1207 – 2007
‘The Rise & Fall & Rise of Liverpool’
12pm Everton Football Club – David France Collection
2pm BBC Radio Merseyside Presenters talk music
3pm Roger Phillips Debate – ‘Who do we think we are?’



Munchkin

[taffy]

Do come along and visit the Garston Historical Society's stand. We will have our new book "Garston Revisited" on sale. See Garston Thread for more info:

http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/south/1421-garston-news-views-discussion.html

[Kev]

I might just do that taffy

[The Gardens]

My film 'Gardens of Stone' is also being shown at the event. The documentary covers City Centre living in Liverpool during the 20th Century. Screening details are;

Friday 14th at 2.00pm
Saturday 15th at 10.30am
Sunday 16th at 10.30am

I will be there, along with Ged Fagan and his model of Gerard Gardens. This is an open screening, and it would be great to see some fellow members of Yo.

my website
http://mysite.orange.co.uk/gardensof...62390035403513

[julieoapw]

Is anyone else attending the 2 day conference over Fri and Sat - the one you have to pay £30 for?

BTW, see Merseyrail, with impeccable timing, will have replacement buses all the way from Southport to Sandhills on the Sunday and from Sandhills to Central all day Fri and Sat. Don't you just love them!

[Ged]

Well I won't be signing up for that

I will be attending a talk in the concert room though on the sunday from 1pm until 4 a part invited and part open audience with Roger Phillips asking is our heritage a help or hindrance - be interesting to hear what that could ever mean?

[julieoapw]

Yes, some of the talks sound good but I'm already signed up for the conference.
Here's the programme for the conference if anyone is interested:
http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/MKG_Global_Doc...ce_leaflet.pdf

[Ged]

Exhibitors
Stand Number Organisation
1 & 2 The Belvedere Hamlets GDST School
3 Belle Vale Prefab Project
4 Capsica Ltd.
5 & 6 Boys’ Brigade
7 Cavern City Tours – 50 years of The Cavern
8 & 9 Countyvise
10 & 11 Mersey Tunnels
12 & 13 Mersey Ferries
14 & 15 Friends of the Ferries
16 Croxteth Hall and Country Park
17 & 18 Merseyside Police Citizen Focus Department
19 & 20 Merseyside Police Community Relations Dept.
21 & 22 Liverpool Record Office
23 & 24 Liverpool & SW Lancashire Family History Society
25 BBC Radio Merseyside
26 Heritage Development Team
27 & 28 Liverpool Culture Company
29 & 30 Friends of Williamson’s Tunnels
31 & 32 Grosvenor
33 The Daniel Adamson Preservation Society
34 & 35 Liverpool War Games Association
36 English Civil War Society
37 Fazakerley Cottage Homes
38 & 39 The Florence Institute Trust
40 & 41 North West Ambulance
42 Fort Perch Rock

[taffy]

Originally Posted by Ged

Exhibitors
Stand Number Organisation
1 & 2 The Belvedere Hamlets GDST School

42 Fort Perch Rock

There's another 60 or so exhibitors missing from this list. Garston Historical Society are exhibitor 51. I don't have the full list I'm afraid.

[julieoapw]

I saw the list today and it goes up to about 180. Pritchards books are one of the stalls and they have a good selection of local history books.