Andrew Simpson
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Liverpool
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Friday, 12 September 2025
Things we did ..... Liverpool .... 1980
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It was the first big demonstration against the newly elected Tory Government. The year was 1980, and on that day in late November I was ther...
Tuesday, 25 April 2023
Standing "on the threshold which leads into the palace of justice”
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It was a slow day on Beech Road yesterday, and with little interest in sitting in the garden or watching yet another box set I took to read...
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Sunday, 11 April 2021
Saying something is wrong ........ alternative histories .... part 1
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Now I can remember the first demonstration I went on in the 1960s and then pretty much all of the others. Liverpool, 1980 But those I...
Wednesday, 13 May 2020
Stories of Nazi persecution, Russian emigres and a wartime crime ............. Nuremberg, Didsbury, Minsk and Liverpool
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Now, the thing about researching the past, is that you can never be quite sure where you will end up. Manchester Guardian, 1940 So, t...
Thursday, 4 April 2019
Saying something is wrong ........ alternative histories .... part 3 on the march
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Now demonstrations can be noisy, busy and in their own way a bit of fun. Liverpool 1980 Of course there is always a serious side to t...
Monday, 15 May 2017
Ghost signs in Liverpool
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Now the blog hasn’t featured a ghost sign for a while so when Antony sent me this one yesterday I fell on it. It is, Anthony tells me o...
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