Photographs of shipyard, Edward Finch and Co Ltd, Engineers and Shipbuilders, Chepstow. Plan of SS Violante built at yard and illustrations of Chepstow.

Silver gelatin print by dated ca. 1960. Handwritten text on verso: "Taken in DG's Hut at South Wapping Basin". Pictured third-from-right is Arthur Edward Langham (1897-1977) ...

Get creative with our art activity especially designed for our youngest visitors, and then explore our Little Liverpool gallery. Sail boats, fish in our mini 'river', then explore our alphabet wall ...

This is often thought to be a study for the cartoon of the same name in the Walker's collection (WAG 4043). Romney's fascination with Shakespeare found expression in a large range of sketches, ...

Passenger list RMS Laconia, Cunard White Star, sailing from Liverpool via Galway to Boston and New York; name on 1st page Miss Constance Davidson, 12 Aug 1939.

Thomas Oladipo Kuforiji, also known as Tommy Brown, was born in 1911 in Abeokuta, Nigeria. He came to Liverpool as a seafarer in the 1930s. During the Second World War he worked at Royal Ordnance ...

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Cotman painted this romantic scene of rustic domestic life at the Black Boy Inn at Hurley on Thames. It shows a farmer (posed by the inn keeper) returning home for his meal, while his horse leans ...

This painting illustrates lines from a traditional folk ballad variously called ‘Child Waters’ or ‘Burd Helen’ from Thomas Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765). The ballad describes the ...

Papyrus Mayer B is a legal document recording part of a tomb robbery trial at the end of the New Kingdom. It is the written record of a confession to thefts in the tomb of King Ramesses VI in the ...