This volume is the fruit of decades of research by the Revd D Ben Rees into the unique story of the Welsh people living in Liverpool and on the banks of the Mersey. It is a treasury of information about people and events in one of the most interesting cities in relation to Welsh history, its people and language.

The biography of one of the most important political figures in Wales in the second half of the 20th century, the first Secretary of State for Wales, Jim Griffiths (1890-1975).