Merseyside Buildings Preservation Trust

Professor J Belchem
Trustee

John is a former Professor of History at the University of Liverpool where he taught from 1980, roles also included Dean of the Faculty of Arts, and Pro-Vice Chancellor. John has published extensively on modern British social and political history, Irish immigration and ethnicity. John edited the Liverpool 800 published by the University of Liverpool press, also Merseyside: Essays in Exceptionalism, and Irish, Catholic and Scouse. His latest book, co-edited with Bryan Biggs, examines the transformation of the Bluecoat, the oldest building in Liverpool City Centre, into the UK’s first Arts Centre.