CLAMS - Centre for Liverpool and Merseyside Studies
Researching Merseyside's diverse cultural and historical legacy'Few people regard the region dispassionately’ - Shelia Marriner, The economic and social development of Merseyside (London: Croom Helm, 1982), p.1.A region with such a distinctive, varied and contested identity merits intensive and extensive research. Migration, sport, politics, economics, religion and humour – Ken Dodd called the region Mirthyside –have all shaped Merseyside, both real and imagined. The Centre for Liverpool and Merseyside Studies (CLAMS) promotes and initiates research into the region’s history and culture. By bringing together academics and others who share an interest in the region, CLAMS facilitates studies of the district and disseminates this work via this website, conferences and publications. Liverpool has been a capital of culture (popular and high) long before 2008. But other places adjoining the Mersey are and have been ‘capitals’ in their own right because they contribute distinctive characteristics to the region and provide focal points in people’s lives. For a Tranmere Rovers fan, Prenton Park, Birkenhead, is their cultural capital. At CLAMS we are interested in and conduct work on all parts of the region and how it has been defined. The centre also emphasises the importance of comparing Merseyside with other areas, in the British Isles and beyond, in employing concepts deployed in history, cultural studies and the social sciences to explore the locality’s significance. Merseyside matters. |
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| For further details contact: Dr. Mike Benbough-Jackson Room 1.18 |
| Tel: 0151 231 5115 |
