The stories of love, celebration and sadness found in every family’s dusty photo album can help paint historical pictures in the wider communities where they took place.
In Liverpool, a new website – filled with snapshots from the past – hopes to become the central hub for the city’s social history. Take a look at some of the images that help tell People’s Stories – Liverpool Lives.
Music by The Beatles, The Searchers, Gerry and the Pacemakers – and Franz Liszt, Consolation No 3 in D Flat Major, performed by Helen Krizos.
Slideshow production by Paul Kerley and Stephanie Power. Publication date Tuesday 9 November 2010.
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