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The History of Liverpool

The “scouse” accent has been part of being a “Liverpudlian” and no one else in the UK sounds like them.

The Geography of Liverpool

The Mersey estuary was famed in the 1960s with the Liverpool band Gerry and the Pacemakers having a hit single with “Ferry cross the Mersey”.

The People of Liverpool

The city of Liverpool has a population of 494,000 yet in the urban conurbation of Merseyside this number grows to 2.4 million people.

Football in Liverpool

The homes of Liverpool and Everton are barely 400 meters apart travelling by foot across Stanley Park.

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    The Beatles in Liverpool – Pa...

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  • The Beatles in Liverpool – Pa...

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  • The Overview of Poetry in Liverpool...

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  • Poets from Liverpool...

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  • The Other Sports of Liverpool...

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  • Tourists Visiting Liverpool...

    As Liverpool has emerged into the 21st century, it has changed its industrial base dramatically. The area was famed for its rapid growth as a result of the city’s development as a port, but as the port’s popularity declined, so […]

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  • Music in Liverpool in the 1960s...

    The 1960s saw a revolution in youth culture in Europe and America. The end of the Second World War triggered a desire of many young people to make the most of their freedom which caused many to perish in the […]

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  • Liverpool’s Inner-City Problems o...

    Liverpool was not the only city that experienced inner city problems in the early 1980s. Many cities in the United Kingdom at this time were being affected by deindustrialization and the hardships that were being suffered by the local communities.
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  • Hillsborough 1989...

    Many of the players and officials who had been present at Heysel in 1985 were still part of Liverpool football club when they went to play their FA cup semi-final game against Nottingham Forest at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield on […]

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  • Heysel Stadium Disaster 1985...

    Liverpool is one of the most successful football club in the country domestically, and they have matched this with their performances in Europe. They have won the European Cup and Champions league 5 times, the UEFA cup 3 times and […]

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Even Jurgen Klopp admits Real Madrid has a huge advantage over Liverpool in one area

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