Dark History of Liverpool

Alongside Liverpool’s rise to becoming one of the most important seaports in Britain and one of its most populous and wealthy cities, runs a thread of darker history. Through the centuries poverty and disease were familiar to many, crimes were dealt with harshly and the slave trade played a significant role in the money flowing through Liverpool in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Alongside these Liverpool was faced with tragedies, a visit by a dictator and a wartime internment camp and the city had its own macabre folktales.In A Dark History of Liverpool author Ken Pye delves into the often lesser known but darker stories from Liverpool’s past. This fascinating insight into Liverpool will be of interest to all those who want to know more about the city’s remarkable history.