Sam Wetherell
@samwetherell
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Historian of Britain and the World at the University of York. Interested in cities, art-making and the future. Writing a book about Liverpool.
Joined January 2011
Now it has a website and is available to pre-order I'm so excited to announce that my second book — Liverpool and the Un-Making of Britain — will be out next spring with Bloomsbury/@HoZ_Books!
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RT @samwetherell: ...Capel Celyn remained submerged until an unprecedented drought in 2018 left its ruins partially exposed, visible for th…
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RT @samwetherell: ...The flooding prompted a brief terrorist insurgency against the state. In 1962 a paramilitary group detonated a bomb at…
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RT @samwetherell: 8) In 1965 Liverpool Council evicted the residents of the ancient Capel Celyn village. The buildings were burned, the cem…
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...Capel Celyn remained submerged until an unprecedented drought in 2018 left its ruins partially exposed, visible for the first time in 50 years. There is an eerie sense here of things moving backwards, of climate change distorting the usual march of historical time.
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RT @samwetherell: ...In all, Toxteth saw the biggest instance of civil disobedience in postwar mainland Britain, with 462 arrests, 781 inju…
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RT @samwetherell: ...However, CS gas had been used often in Britain's empire prior to 1981 - Kenya, Burma, and N. Ireland (among other plac…
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RT @samwetherell: 7) The Toxteth uprising in 1981 remains the only instance that police have used CS Gas in mainland Britain. The canisters…
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RT @samwetherell: ...In 1962 Liverpool became the first port in Britain to install a computer pictured below. It cost £100,000, filled an e…
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RT @samwetherell: 6) This is the payroll dept. of the National Dock Labour Board in 1949. The nationalisation of dockwork in places like Li…
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RT @samwetherell: 5) In 1984, Liverpool was rumoured to be the chosen location for a European branch of Disneyland, the first outside the U…
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