The Quest For Utopia
Forever over the rainbow, Utopia is the ideal place that does not yet exist. But what are the origins of our belief in utopias and why do visions of a better world so often descend into hell on earth? This is Episode 1 of the Liverpool Salon’s Utopia series of public discussions hosted at the Athenaeum Liverpool in 2022/23.
Liverpool’s Northern History
Liverpolitan Editor, Paul Bryan, talks to Brian Groom, journalist and author of Northerners: A History, about Liverpool’s peculiar place in northern culture. We talk architecture, wealth, slavery, scouse exceptionalism and our rivalry with Manchester.