Dr Nathalie Rech will share early research into Black Women who entered UK state institutions in the early 20th Century. Her research aims to contribute to a better understanding of the mechanisms of white supremacy. The presentation will focus on archival research in port cities with a larger Black presence, such as Liverpool, and Cardiff.
Black women’s presence appear in journalistic accounts of police and court activities, as well as in institutional records, although often through the filter of stereotypical and racialized representations. Very few academic studies have focused on women of African descent in Britain at the turn of the 20th century.
Dr Nathalie Rech is a writer and a historian. Her research focuses on Black women’s lives at the turn of the 20th century. Currently a Post-doctoral researcher at the University of Liverpool, she explores the criminal justice system and state institutions in Louisiana, and in the UK.
When the lights go off in any large and old house the rooms go quiet, and an oppressive stillness descends in the darkness. It is then, and only then, as the moon rises in the sky that the spirits of the dead return to tell their stories.
In this interactive tour of Sudley House they will move through the dark period rooms of the house, long after it has been shut up to most visitors. As the house begins to creak and settle characters from the past may just appear to spin a tale so horrible and terrifying Hallowe’en must be approaching.
Tours of the darkened house are suitable for older audiences only and numbers will be strictly limited. Tours last approximately 50 minutes to an hour and begin at 6pm, 7.30pm, and 9pm.
In a unique partnership with the Children Growing up in Liverpool (C-GULL) study, Young Voices, Big Ideas brings together children and young people’s ideas on changes they would like for a happier and healthier future. The installation showcases how this ground-breaking research can help us answer children’s questions and improve children’s health and wellbeing.
The Young Voices, Big Ideas installation shares children’s ideas through their drawings and voices, and amplifies the change they are advocating for. It explains how the C-GULL study can help answer children’s questions and improve their health and wellbeing. They hope you enjoy it!
Whilst visiting the installation you can see children’s drawings and hear their ideas about the changes they would like to see to have a happier and healthier future. You can read their co-created children’s books about what it is like to grow up and live in Liverpool, and colour in some of the illustrations from the book.
They are proud to partner with Young Voices, Big Ideas and C-Gull at the Museum of Liverpool. C-Gull is one of the largest family studies ever to take place in the UK. It brings together a huge range of experts from the University of Liverpool and Liverpool Women’s Hospital in a study which involves the recruitment of 10,000 babies! Ultimately, the goal is to create a healthier and more equitable future for children in Liverpool by promoting health and well-being, reducing health disparities, and supporting families in their efforts to help their children thrive.
Find out more at the Museum of Liverpool or by visiting the C-GULL website.
Family memory strolls are guided visits in the Museum of Liverpool, which connect people through conversations about Liverpool’s past.
On a memory stroll you can explore Liverpool icons like the Overhead Railway, known as the dockers’ umbrella, Blackie the rocking horse, or the Colomendy totem pole. Bring a friend or loved one to share memories with, and create some new ones together.
Each stroll is facilitated by a friendly member of our House of Memories team but led by the conversations and stories shared within the group. As a dementia-friendly session these strolls will use the displays within the Museum of Liverpool to help you bring memories of Liverpool to life.
Their family memory strolls last about one hour and can accommodate up to 20 people. For groups larger than 4 people please email learning@liverpoolmuseums.org.uk to book a private date with their team.
The Museum of Liverpool is fully accessible and we welcome visitors who use wheelchairs or other mobility aids to join their memory strolls. Please visit their access page for further information to help prepare for your visit.
Tickets are free and need to be booked in advance. Please let them know if you have booked but can no longer attend so that someone else can have your ticket.
The times of memory strolls varies as follows:
- 18 October at 2pm
- 22 November at 11am
- 24 January 2025 at 2pm
- 28 February 2025 at 11am
This is a co-hosted event between National Museums Liverpool and the Tung Auditorium (University of Liverpool).
To book tickets, head to the Tung Auditorium’s website.
The two-hour event, programmed as part of Black History Month, will be split into different segments; live conversation, screening and Q/A.
The focus of the evening will be a screening of Delado: Rising from the Ashes, a documentary which delves into the tension of Liverpool 8 following the 1981 Toxteth Uprisings. Local underdogs emerged as a performance collective primarily under the wing of Ghanaian performance teachers.
Preceding the documentary will be a live conversation with Elliss Eyo-Thompson (Project Facilitator at International Slavery Museum) and storyteller Kelechi Okafor.
EVENT VENUE: Tung Auditorium, 60 Oxford Street, Liverpool, L7 3NY
What was that noise? A footstep on the stair? Your bedroom window creaking open? No, it was just the memory of the ghost story you heard in Sudley’s Library. Wasn’t it…?
What’s that shadow dancing against your bedroom wall? Is it some long dead ghost? Perhaps a ghoul from the bowels of hell come to terrify you? No, it’s just the creepy craft you made in the Sudley House Craft Room. Wasn’t it….?
What’s that at the window? Some creeping monster come to taunt you? A reaper come to carry you off? No, it’s the memory of a ghoulish pumpkin from the Sudley Pumpkin Trail. Wasn’t it….?
Hallowe’en at Sudley House will be family friendly but they do recommend that their very youngest visitors might like to be pre-warned that the theme of the event will be a bit spooky! Don’t say we didn’t warn you!
Adam Partridge, who regularly appears on television programmes as an antiques expert and auctioneer, will be joined by his team of experienced Valuers at what many consider the most iconic building in the city.
For one day only the public are invited to have their items valued for free and are welcome to consign them for auction at Adam Partridge’s Liverpool Saleroom on Jordan Street in The Baltic Triangle.
There will also be an exclusive chance for people to view items from The Royal Liver Building archives, which are not usually on public display.
The building will be open from 9am – 5pm so everyone can make the most of the fully accessible ground floor area and fully licensed cafe during their visit.
Enjoy a three-course meal and live entertainment at this Halloween inspired Mystery Night.
Halloween 1974 – 4 people spend the night in a old house to try to prove the existence of ghosts. A Psychic, a scientist, a journalist and the property manager.
What could possibly go wrong?
The Plaza Community Cinema are celebrating Halloween this year with two special events which will cater for everyone.
Horror film fans will love their Plaza 80s Halloween Special with ‘A Nightmare On Elm Street’ (15) on Saturday 26th October (7pm) which has just celebrated it’s 40th anniversary.
The family will love their Plaza Halloween Family Special with ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ (PG) on Thursday 31st October (6pm)
DBY Interactive present the ultimate murder mystery themed Halloween special.
An October morning in 1826, along George’s Docks, Liverpool. A cargo ship due to set sail for Scotland, a young sailor notices a foul odour seeping from one of the shipment barrels. The seaman was used to the stench of fish and brine, but this was different… this made the hairs on the back of his neck stand up. A smell so vile, he gagged as they prised open the barrels to reveal bodies, stripped naked, pickled in brine and salted in an attempt to preserve them. Men, women and children.
Jonathan hasn’t heard from his cousin since her harrowing letter. He has read the papers, the reports of notorious Liverpool body snatchers stealing from shallow graves; that some bodies didn’t even make it to the cemetery before they were sold to the highest bidder to be used in godless experimentation. He fears the worse, but there is only one way to find out the truth.
Join him as he retraces his cousins steps to discover what happened to her, but be warned, some people want to keep the truth buried, and they will do anything to stop it being exposed… even kill.
Join DBY interactive in this interactive theatrical Halloween Special Murder Mystery Show at the Everyman. A night of secrets, deceit, missing bodies and murder. A Halloween Special not to be missed.
Theme : crime solving fictional story based on the dark history of the body snatchers of Liverpool linked to Hope Street and the Everyman. Period drama. Puzzle solving. Crime solving. Mature drama. Not for the faint hearted.
Your ticket includes a meal option:
Pumpkin nachos served with meat or veg chilli, guacamole and salsa.
All dietary and allergen needs can be catered for. Please inform us of any allergies by emailing boxoffice@everymanplayhouse.com making sure to include your order number, no later than 48hrs before the start of the event.
