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 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: 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 [...]
Campaign to Axe the Beer Tax
The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) is behind a campaign to persuade the government to drop its recently announced increases in tax on beer. The most recent rise stayed in place while taxes on alcopops and spirits were dropped. There are historical precedents for this kind of protest group, most notably in the years leading [...]
Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime?
Tom Waits. A great song. Photography by Walker Evans, among others. Perfect.
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Reaching Beyond Expectations
Several years ago now I wrote an article about American architect Jeh Vincent Johnson for a reference publication called Contemporary Black Biography. With so much being written about Barak Obama’s achievement in becoming President only forty or so years since segregation I’ve been thinking about this remarkable and generous man, who was kind enough to grant [...]
Congratulations America
I could not be more pleased with the way this has worked out. What a huge sense of relief and what a pleasure to see so many people voting.
So Congratulations America for daring to choose optimism and hope over cynicism and bitterness. Truly inspiring.
Cain’s Revisions and the Temporal Paradox
Over the last week or so I’ve been working on the revisions I had to make to Cain’s: The Story of Liverpool in a Pint. Although the amount of writing and revising wasn’t much in the scheme of things, it wasn’t easy. When you plan and write a book, you have an idea in your [...]
What next for Cain’s?
The Liverpool Echo is reporting that at 2pm today Cain’s bankers turned down the request for ongoing funding. Given the news in the general economy, this has been an increasingly likely outcome. The Dusanj brothers have given Liverpool a wonderful emblem for its recovery since 2002 and really lifted the mood in the city with [...]
Cain’s Fight Continues
The Liverpool Echo says that the Dusanj family are turning a personal loan they made to the company during the Honeycombe takeover into new shares, thus releasing over £2.5 million. It’s not enough to save the business, but it might just convince the bank:
That means rather than expecting a return on their loan the family [...]
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