Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain

Few cities in the world are as famous as Liverpool, the home of the modern world's most celebrated rock group and of a legendary football team.

The city is equally notorious for its poverty, its ethnic and racial divides and, above all, its decline. For Liverpool was once a major port, growing rich on slavery, on trade with the Americas and the British Empire's outposts in Africa and Asia. In the 1980s, it was described as 'obsolete'. Yet the city fights on.

This is the epic history of Liverp...