Social Mobility in Victorian England: The Case of Robert Cain
One of the things that surprised me while I was researching my book Cains: The Story of Liverpool in a Pint was how open Victorian society seems to have been to social climbers. Robert Cain, the founder of the Cains brewery in Liverpool has always been widely believed to have arrived in Liverpool aged 18 [...]
Cains Radio Interviews
I was off sick most of the last week but on Saturday I managed to drag myself into Liverpool for radio appearances on the Billy Butler show on BBC Radio Merseyside and then on Brian Reade’s show at City Talk. I’ll try to get copies of the interviews up here as soon as I can; [...]
Cains Book in the Daily Post and Echo
Yesterday I went down to the Brewery Tap to meet with journalists and the Dusanj brothers to mark the publication of Cains: The Story of Liverpool in a Pint. The fact that the Dusanjs were there was surprising in itself as they have stayed away from the media since the Cains Beer Company went into [...]
Cains mp3 Download
It looks like Cains: The Story of Liverpool in a Pint is starting to find its way out to the bookshops now. Yesterday I received my own copies and the supply chain should improve over the next few days. From today you can also listen to me reading the first chapter of the book, “An [...]
Cains: The Story of Liverpool in a Wordle
According to the developer Wordle is a toy for creating ‘word clouds’ from chunks of text, or from any blog or website that has an RSS feed. Apart from being quite entertaining, it looks like Wordle is being used in schools to teach spelling and vocabulary. You can tweak the font, layout, and colours, or [...]
Cains: The Story of Liverpool in a Pint–It’s Finally Here
An email from the publisher this morning to say that the Cain’s book has finally arrived. I haven’t seen a finished copy yet, so the tension is high around here, but it looks like it is starting to show up at the online bookstores at least. Borders seems to be quickest off the mark and [...]
Robert Cain’s Winter Ale
In the 1860s brewing was becoming an industrial process. The ability to keep the fermentation warm in the winter and cool in the summer made it possible to brew year-round. In 1865 a young brewer called William Blackburn was working for Robert Cain at the Stanhope Street brewery, known then as the Mersey Brewery. While [...]
Cains Still Not on Amazon.co.uk: Try Here Instead
The list of people receiving order cancellations from Amazon is growing so I’m putting together a collection of alternative places where you can pre-order Cains: The Story of Liverpool in a Pint, which will be with us very soon now. Many thanks to everyone who has pre-ordered the book.
Amazon (UK) is giving you a link [...]
Former Cain’s Pubs Not Selling
The Morning Advertiser reports that the administrators of the former Cain’s Beer Company are having trouble selling a group of 26 pubs from the company’s estate to Pubco Calco. Given the economic circumstances–the lack of available credit, the continuing fall in property values–it’s probably not surprising that they are finding it hard to sell them [...]
Cains Book on Amazon
My mate Andrew Beacock contacted me this morning to tell me that Amazon is sending out emails cancelling pre-orders for Cain’s: The Story of Liverpool in a Pint. I thought I’d better write a post to say that the book has gone to press and is now set to be published on December 1st. If [...]
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