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- 2001-2008 (Creation)
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1 large box.
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Manuscript notes for ‘Real Liverpool’ by Niall Griffiths, together with professional and personal correspondence between him and the predominantly literary contacts whom he consulted about the content of the book and in particular Liverpool’s role as the European Capital of Culture in 2008, as well as other material accumulated during the writing of the book and relating to people, places, events, activities, issues and phenomena in Liverpool and the surrounding area, including typescript copies of articles and other prose (notably ‘Elysian fields, ropewalks and capitalist vultures: life in Liverpool 1’, ‘John 7:14’ and ‘Where it all began’ by Kenn Taylor, ‘Another brief history of time’ by Ade Jackson, ‘Nerve magazine’ by Deborah Mulhearn, ‘Waiting for Brando’ by Tony Wailey, ‘Five short strolls, or one long hike, through Malcolm Lowry’s Wirral’ by Michael Wherly [under the pseudonym Michael Carson], ‘Sweet F.A. about Big Sugar and a key Presidential State’, ‘Bitter sweet pensioner stories’, ‘Florida sugar: a toxic ingredient in American democracy’, ‘Mr Cube and the re-branding of Mr Tate’s sugar lumps’ and ‘The secret in the stone’ by Ron Noon, and ‘And in the end …’ by Joe Shooman with an extract from his autobiography), typescript copies of poems (including ‘Trick or Treat’, ‘Cwm bie yer’, ‘Booklaunch’, ‘Song to Belong’, ‘It Only Takes One Dickhead’, ‘The tempest’, and ‘I’m Explaining a Few Things’ by Nathan Jones, ‘A Kali-Yuga Journal’ and ‘Scimitar H’ by Ade Jackson, ‘Dice Dancers’ and ‘A luxury I’ve learned to live without’ by Joe Shooman, and ‘Quiz Bomb’ and ‘Top Deck’ by Ross Sutherland), typescript copies of notes for lectures and talks (including ‘A Merseyside writer responds to Malcolm Lowry’ by Michael Wherly and ‘Staying pure in Liverpool: the Welsh community in the late nineteenth century’ by Mike Benbough-Jackson), photographs taken by Niall Griffiths, press cuttings, photocopies of published articles, educational materials, printouts from websites and promotional and tourist information literature.
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- English
- Welsh
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English and Welsh
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The finished work was published as Real Liverpool (Bridgend : Seren; 2008).
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- Jones, Nathan, 1981- (Subject)
- Shooman, Joe (Subject)
- Taylor, Kenn (Subject)
- Noon, Ron (Subject)
- Wailey, Tony (Subject)
- McGough, Roger (Subject)
- Williams, John (John M.) (Subject)
- Routledge, Christopher, 1968- (Subject)
- Jackson, Ade (Subject)
- Mulhearn, Deborah, 1958- (Subject)
- Benbough-Jackson, Mike (Subject)
- Stead, Peter (Subject)
- Sampson, Kevin (Subject)
- Sutherland, Ross, 1979- (Subject)
- Hussey, Andrew (Subject)
- Carson, Michael, 1946- (Subject)