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A minor port city in the North West of England, it was originally awarded a [[City Charter]] by King John in 1208. However, it was not until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that Liverpool developed into a major global city. This prominence was based largely on trade, including [[tobacco]], [[sugar]] and a major involvement in the [[slave trade]]. The slave trade was abolished in 1806, however Liverpool continued to flourish as an industrial trade and financial industries center.
 
A minor port city in the North West of England, it was originally awarded a [[City Charter]] by King John in 1208. However, it was not until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that Liverpool developed into a major global city. This prominence was based largely on trade, including [[tobacco]], [[sugar]] and a major involvement in the [[slave trade]]. The slave trade was abolished in 1806, however Liverpool continued to flourish as an industrial trade and financial industries center.
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Liverpool is the European City Of Culture for 2008.
  
 
Around 1911 Adolf Hitler visited his brother Alois who lived and worked in Liverpool. It is believed that as a result of him seeing Liverpool's position as a port and centre of shipbuilding during [[World War II]] he directed the [[Luftwaffe]] to traget the cirty.
 
Around 1911 Adolf Hitler visited his brother Alois who lived and worked in Liverpool. It is believed that as a result of him seeing Liverpool's position as a port and centre of shipbuilding during [[World War II]] he directed the [[Luftwaffe]] to traget the cirty.

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A minor port city in the North West of England, it was originally awarded a City Charter by King John in 1208. However, it was not until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that Liverpool developed into a major global city. This prominence was based largely on trade, including tobacco, sugar and a major involvement in the slave trade. The slave trade was abolished in 1806, however Liverpool continued to flourish as an industrial trade and financial industries center.

Liverpool is the European City Of Culture for 2008.

Around 1911 Adolf Hitler visited his brother Alois who lived and worked in Liverpool. It is believed that as a result of him seeing Liverpool's position as a port and centre of shipbuilding during World War II he directed the Luftwaffe to traget the cirty.

The city currently has a population of approximately 450,000, known as 'Scousers' after a popular local dish, with the wider Merseyside region having a population of 1.5 million. The city itself is divided up into villages such as Aigburth, West Derby, Aintree and Knotty Ash. The popular culture and 'soul' of Liverpool has most memorably been portrayed by the author and dramatist Carla Lane in a number of highly-regarded television dramas including "The Liver Birds" and "Bread". Willy Russell and Alan Bleasdale are also noted playwrights from Liverpool. Bleasedale effectively portrayed the misery and deprivation of 1980s Liverpool in dramas such as The Black Stuff, Giro Day and Dole Ponce, while Russell, probably the most well-known of current Liverpool writers has enjoyed huge success with offerings such as Educating Rita, Blood Brothers and Shirley Valentine.

British Prime Minister Harold Wilson later Lord Wilson of Rievaulx was Member of Parliament for the Liverpool constituency of Huyton from 1945 until 1979.

Famous natives of Liverpool:

  • Cilla Black (singer, TV presenter)
  • Arthur Askey (comedian and actor)
  • Anne Robinson (TV presenter and journalist)
  • Tony Booth (actor and father-in-law of Tony Blair)
  • Billy Butler (comedian)
  • Jimmy Tarbuck (comedian)
  • Ted Ray (comedian)
  • Norman Rossiter (comedian and actor)
  • John Prescott (comedian)
  • Steven Gerrard (footballer)
  • Robbie Fowler (footballer)
  • Stan Boardman (comedian)
  • Derek Nimmo (comic actor)
  • Terry McDermott (footballer and archetypal Scouser)
  • Ken Dodd (comedian and singer)
  • Ricky Tomlinson (trade unionist, actor, comedian and banjo player)
  • Kenny Eveett (disc jockey and comedian)
  • George Melly (jazz singer and author)
  • Jamie Caragher (footballer and comedian)
  • Derek Hatton (politician and scally)
  • Fanny Hare (actress)
  • John Peel (disc jockey and radio personality)
  • Daniel Craig (actor) from nearby Hoylake
  • Lord Liverpool (British Prime Minister)

Many of the above are strong ambassadors for Liverpool and despite worldly success display their loyalty by continuing to live nearby in the county of Buckinghamshire.

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