An Eighteenth Century Capital of Culture? An examination of Liverpool

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An Eighteenth Century Capital of Culture? An
examination of Liverpools historical battle to
prove its cultural value
Theatre Royal Liverpool, circa 1795
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What use is culture to run-down
Liverpool? London Evening Standard
Bells ring in Capital of Culture BBC News
This is the Detroit of England London Evening
Standard
Flying high in countdown for Capital of Culture
bid icLiverpool.co.uk
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Theatre Royal Liverpool, circa 1805
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But it was rather a cause of wonder ... that
any doubt should arise to the permitting of a
theatre to be established in so flourishing a
place as Liverpool ... But now genius is
discouraged, and the public suffers
inconveniences, from a restriction that is
serviceable in no one point, but very harmful to
many (General Evening Post 2 March 1771)
to the Right Rev. The Lords Spiritual If your
duty did exist as strongly in former instances as
it does now, why were you silent when those fatal
precedents were established? If it did not then
exist, and now does, what new corruption in the
morals of the stage has given rise to it? Whence
has it sprung? Where do you fix it? Not in
Liverpool, I trust, not in the place in
question (General Evening Post 12 March 1771)
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Alexandra Appleton

• English Department
• University of Liverpool
• A.N.Appleton_at_liverpool.ac.uk