Services
Commissioned Research
LBHRG has worked with National Museums Liverpool as part of their multi million pound Liverpool Waterfront Transformation Project, with regards to the history of the Canning Graving Docks – read more https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/news/press-releases/waterfront-transformation-project
The group has also been commissioned to work with Liverpool City Council on the pioneering project Liverpool Slavery Heritage Plaques, which will interrogate the City’s history of slavery through its street names, monuments and buildings.
We are interested in working with anyone from community organisations to corporations. If you have a project that needs help from a research team, contact us with some details and we’ll be in touch.
Researcher Training
Liverpool Black History Research Group believes it is essential for local people to be empowered to research the histories of their own communities. Using a step by step approach, we achieve this by providing members with the skills, techniques and knowledge enabling them to conduct and produce substantial original research from primary and secondary sources such as parish registers, newspapers, directories, historical databases, books, journals and other periodicals. Our training programme also includes powerpoint presentations, lectures, visits to archives exploring original documents, tutorials on how to use historical resources on microfilm, the internet and walking tours.
The group ensures thorough research by approaching projects individually collecting the information required, then coming together weekly organising the data and analysing findings.
LBHRG believes it is important that academic research benefits the wider community NOT just academia. Our research, while rigorous, is aimed at bringing a broader audience knowledge of their local histories, particularly those that have not currently been told in academic narratives and we believe it is the role of local people to tell their own stories.
The group is actively looking for new participants, so if the above is of interest, please contact us.
Academic Activism
LBHRG is not just a local history group. We believe that much of our research has relevancy for events and debates that are taking place today. We believe that academic research should be informing political and organisational decision making, ultimately leading to positive change in Liverpool and beyond. For example, based on precedent that has already been set by the University of Glasgow and other leading educational institutions in the United States, our research focusing on the origins of the University of Liverpool should lead to a policy of reparatory justice being implemented by the University, based on the findings LBHRG has outlined in our recent summary document.
