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Author: Liam Markey

Associate Researcher at the University of Liverpool
Cheshire Regiment…

By One Who Suffers

28 Oct 201929 Oct 2019
This poem, credited to an anonymous author referred to only as One Who Suffers, details time spent at Prees Heath training camp in Shropshire. With a capacity of around 30,000, it was…
Museums and Heritage

The Controversy of Human Remains in Museums

9 Jan 201918 Jan 2019
Throughout history there has been a fascination with death and the preservation of the human body which is indicative of an interest in the bizarre and unorthodox practices found throughout…
General History

William Mackenzie: The Ghost of Rodney Street

5 Jan 201918 Jan 2019
William James Mackenzie, born March 20th, 1794 near Nelson in Lancashire, was a leading European civil engineering contractor in the 1840s. His life has had a significant impact on the…
First World War

Somme Myth-Conceptions

7 Dec 20187 May 2021
Mud and blood. Uncaring general’s edging their drinks cabinets forwards at a snail’s pace. Thousands of young British men forced to walk briskly into a hail of German machine gun…

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Liam Markey. Associate researcher at the University of Liverpool. Interested in the First World War, 20th Century Britain, Militarism, and Museums.

Currently digitising my great-grandfather’s First World War diary. Follow this link for an interactive map showing locations relating to his time serving in the Cheshire Regiment:

https://maphub.net/Liam1994/lastpostsmap

 

If you’d like to get in touch, my email is:

liam_markey@outlook.com

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