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1 NEWSLETTER LIVERPOOL SCHOOLS HISTORY COMPETION eddy estlin & glyn williams Liverpool in the competition has been of Key Stage 2 winners critical importance and the beginnings of Kindertransport a very productive relationship have been formed. 62, Falkner Street The History of the Albert Dock

All the schools of Liverpool were asked Key Stage 3 winners to take part, with a request that teachers The Beatles: A Moment in Liverpool History would proffer the best three essays for William Roscoe their respective Key Stage entries. Sixteen The Brave Women Who Fought For Our schools participated as follows: Rights: The Liverpool Suffragettes Key Stage 4 winners Broadgreen International School How the Civil War between King Charles and Parliament affected Liverpool Fazakerley High School Liverpool’s role in the Slave Trade Kirkdale St Lawrence C of E Sir Robert Shields: The Surgeon who left behind a legacy of healthcare in Liverpool Liverpool Life Sciences UTC Mab Lane Primary School Key Stage 5 winner Northway Primary and Nursery School Does Liverpool deserve the title ‘Capital of Slavery’? Notre Dame Catholic College Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School The prizewinners also received a family St Ambrose Catholic Primary School pass to a local venue of historical interest St Finbar’s Catholic Primary School (via our sponsors The Anglican Cathedral; The Beatles Experience; British Music St Francis de Sales Catholic Junior School Experience; Everton Football Club; The St Oswald’s Catholic Primary School The Liverpool Schools Essay Competition Liverpool Medical Institution; Speke Hall and The De la Salle Academy Western Approaches). School Improvement Project idea was developed in 2017 Liverpool also provided book tokens for all to honour money and materials gifted The Studio School winners and the ‘Horrible History’ textbooks posthumously to the society by the late for the Key Stage 2 awards. Certificates Russell Molyneux-Johnson, Veronica Gibson were given to all participating schools and and founder member Brenda Murray. The for each child who submitted an entry to the 2018-19 competition, the first in the city, We do not know the total numbers of pupils competition, but who did not win a prize. The enabled school pupils from the ages of 7 to who actually presented essays to their LHS also commissioned the production of a 18 to showcase their historical research and teachers for entry, but in some cases we special journal that features the prizewinning writing skills and capture and celebrate part have learned that these could be by an entire essays. Copies of these were given to the of the city's achievements. class. Judging the merits of the essays that schools and the prizewinners and copies we received were a very difficult task – the will be available to see/purchase at the next We have been both greatly impressed overall standard was high, the originality meetings of the LHS. impressive and the effort put in was obvious. and encouraged by this start to what we However, we were able to award Gold, Silver For this inaugural competition, we have hope will be a sustainable annual event. and Bronze certificates for the following attended the school assembly or classroom The involvement of School Improvement essays according to educational Key Stage: presentations for the winners. This has been an absolute joy to be involved in, but for next year’s competition, we intend to host a single presentation ceremony for all of our winners. We will keep you updated about this. 19TH MAY james crossland LIVERPOOL AFRAID? AND THE FRENCH THREAT, 1803-60 meeting report by glyn williams

Dr James Crossland works as a Senior Lecturer done to avoid the likelihood of future invasions. in International History at the Liverpool John Six hundred thousand militia volunteers were Moores University. His talk focused on rumours recruited nationwide and large numbers of of two ‘Napoleonic’ threats levelled at Liverpool Martello towers (modelled on earlier Italian and the River Mersey during the 19th century: fortifications) commissioned. Over a hundred one in the time of Napoleon Bonaparte and the towers were built in the UK, but not on the other during the reign of Bonaparte’s nephew Mersey. Liverpool Castle was used to imprison Emperor Napoleon III. Karl Marx summed up the hundreds of prisoners of war and local contrasting careers of these two men with the militiamen guarded the docks. words, ‘History repeats itself: first as tragedy, second as farce.’ A year after Trafalgar and two years before Waterloo, the commissioning of Perch Rock in The first threat followed the Battle of Fishguard 1813 was too late for immediate use. The work in February 1797. This turned out to be an was not completed until 1829, and its main napoleon iii Irish/American plot. British forces won, but the purpose was not so much to repel invaders as to source: national Government realised that something had to be guard the estuary against organised smuggling. portrait gallery 2 Perch Rock’s garrison featured a small battery and hundred-plus men. The cost of £27,000 10TH MARCH professor tony crowley was shared between the Government and the town’s ship owners. THE LIVERPOOL ENGLISH DICTIONARY meeting report by martin strauss

out, spoken English differed throughout Ireland and many of the arrivals were not educated.

In reality, Liverpool’s language is multi- cultural, a ‘contact language’. Amongst others, Thomas de Quincey and Elizabeth Gaskell noted the variety of languages spoken in Liverpool. Apart from an Irish influence, scouse words come from perch rock fort, new brighton, wirral by Chinese, Cornish, Dutch, Welsh, Persian, henry edward locke (1862-1925). atkinson Turkish, Italian, French, Danish, Spanish, art gallery collection. ccbyncsa. Gaelic, Hindi, Portuguese, Romany and The second threat was initiated by an the slang of the armed forces (including assassination attempt on Napoleon III in Paris Polari, the slang of the seamen of the in January 1856. The perpetrators were Italian Mediterranean). Liverpool’s trade and nationalists. Rumours that they were trained maritime expansion brought many in Birmingham were enough for the French nationalities to the city, which influenced to believe that the incident was sponsored by the local language. Other influences Britain. This was an era of sea-warfare and include the growth of education and the Government in London was only too aware literacy, the development of the railways that in 1859 the French navy had equipped and newspapers. itself with a state-of-the-art ironclad warship called La Gloire, followed two years later by a Turning to other aspects of ‘scouse’, pair of similarly potent vessels (Magenta and Professor Crowley noted that Frank Solferino). The wooden ships of the Royal Navy Shaw’s 1966 publication of ‘Lern Yerself were in serious danger of being outclassed – Scouse’, was widely criticised for its hence Britain launching its first ironclad ship focus on ‘South-end scouse’ to the HMS Warrior in 1861. exclusion of the ‘North-end’ of Liverpool. The first mention of ‘Lobscouse’ dates The 1850s were opulent times for Liverpool. from 1708: a stew of onions, potatoes Commerce flourished, as can be seen in That Professor Crowley was the ideal person and oatmeal. A recipe of 1797 suggests St George’s Hall (opened in 1854) and the Baltic/Nordic origins – the food eaten on ships, magnificent buildings adorning William Brown to talk on this subject became clear when he Street and elsewhere. There was much to be revealed that he was born in the Dingle and perhaps from the Latvian ‘labs’. A ‘scouser’ protected as a second threat of French raids was Professor of English Language at Leeds is one who eats ‘scouse’; perhaps it is a naval reared its ugly head. A battery at Liscard, University. His career has been devoted to nickname. The nature of scouse after decades intended to police water-borne incursions, language and its origins; as he put it: “language of multicultural influences seems to be fixed was built between 1855 and 1858. This was shows where you were born and bred and have from the 1950s. followed some time later by similar fortifications been”. What is a ‘Liverpool word?’, he asked. Is at Seaforth (1870) and Crosby (1906), the latter it derived from the local community and dialect? Professor Crowley gave some specific examples focusing on threats from Germany. The port’s Or has it been borrowed and assimilated from and their language of origin: ‘cushy’, (19th ship owners drove the concern for a defensive elsewhere? Answers to these questions can be century Urdu); ‘scoff’, (Dutch); ‘dekko’, (Hindi); strategy in the late 1850s. In May 1859, a meeting found in long-lost Liverpool novels and in the ‘buckshee’, (Persian, a gratuity); ‘gansey’, (Irish at the town hall demanded the militarisation of English, a jersey); ‘debby’, (French, debris); the docks. Ships were equipped with cannon writings of those who came to Liverpool in the past. ‘scallywag’, (US English, an unwilling worker); and the docks with a generous complement of gobshite (Irish English); ‘scran’ ( 18th Cant). militiamen. Some guarded the docks in general, ‘Whack’, or pal, involves the idea of sharing others just their owner’s property. The traditional version of the origin of the among friends, perhaps the crew of a ship, ‘scouse’ dialect is that it derived from the local where each gets a ‘fair whack’. So, many words accent up to about 1830 and was The region’s ports inevitably supported have 18th century origins, being then nourished then influenced by Anglo-Irish immigrants militarisation. The Lancashire hinterland in the 19th century by the development of trade, in the 1840s. Professor Crowley doubts this (places like Rochdale and ), on the and the arrival in Liverpool of thousands of other hand, was far less supportive, believing interpretation. If this is true, why is the accent new migrants seeking employment, escaping that the scare was largely unfounded and not prevalent in Manchester, which underwent caused unwarranted panic and hysteria. Prime persecution or famine or sensing that a fortune a similar growth of immigration in the same could be made in the new opportunities offered Minister Lord Palmerston called for more period? Part of the real answer lies in the Martello towers (by now called ‘Palmerston in the city. Linguisticians may distinguish volume of immigration into Liverpool and in Forts’) but, once again, not for Liverpool. The between language and accent, but both go invasion scare lasted until 1861, after which the huge variety of countries from which these together. ‘Scouse’ is distinctive of Liverpool; it people accepted that Liverpool and the Mersey migrants came. The city grew from 77.000 is the accent and the local language used by were not a strategic priority compared to the in 1801 to 684,000 in 1901. Contemporaries, a ‘scouser’, the origins of which go back two south and east coasts. such as William Enfield for instance, noted the hundred years. ‘influx of strangers’. By 1841, forty-five percent of the city’s population were immigrants; many were Irish, but as Professor Crowley pointed

3 LIVERPOOL HISTORY SOCIETY – 2018 MEETINGS PROGRAMME LIVERPOOL HISTORY SOCIETY – 2018 MEETINGS PROGRAMME LIVERPOOL13 May HISTORYAGM followed SOCIETY by Liverpool’s Links with America David Hearn EETINGS13 ROGRAMMEMay AGM followed by Liverpool’s Links with America David Hearn – 2019 M 10 PJune Visit to the Blue Coat School led by Peter Elson 10 June Visit to the Blue Coat School led by Peter Elson July & August Summer break, no meetings July & August Summer break, no meetings 16 September Galkoffs and the Secret Life of Pembroke Place Poppy Learman 13TH OCTOBER16 September LGalkoffsIVERPOOL and ASthe SecretA WHALING Life of Pembroke PORT 1750Place - 1823& LizPoppy Stewart LearmanDR. 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