Overview
A fascinating cultural survey of Liverpool’s pubs, inns and hostelries, beginning with one of Liverpool’s oldest extant buildings – Ye Hole in the Wall on Hackins Hey, and finishing with a survey of Liverpool brewers such as Higson’s, Cains; this course is intended to highlight the rich visual/cultural history and developmental stories behind these a large number of significant locations, which generations of Liverpudlians have passed through in countless rites of passage. This course will appeal to anyone with an interest in Liverpool history, town planning, breweriana, art, architecture and social history.
Syllabus
- Week 1: The Georgian Era
- Week 2: Pub Art of G W Herdman and followers
- Week 3: Characters and consequences – pub interiors
- Week 4: Liverpool drunks (social history)
- Week 5: Victorian/Edwardian Eras
- Week 6: Oddments and quirks/Peter Kavanagh’s
- Week 7: Philharmonic Hotel/Dining Rooms
- Week 8: Liverpool’s Irish Pubs
- Week 9: Ye Cracke/rock n roll pubs
- Week 10: Liverpool brewers and Breweriana.
Course lecturer
Dr Lee Kendall was born in Liverpool in 1974 and earned his BA (Hons) in History of Art at University of Leicester in 1997 before going on to complete a PhD in the same subject at Liverpool John Moores University in 2006. An independent art historian with a particular interest in all things Liverpool related, his publications include “Being for the Benefit of… Beatles Art in Liverpool” (2012). He has been part of the front of house team at Tate Gallery, Liverpool since 2009 and has lectured for the University of Liverpool's CE Department since 2019.
Course fee
- Standard fee: £155
- Concession fee: £80.
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