"alumni memories" blog posts
Alumni memories: Liz Holdsworth's swinging sixties journey
In the summer of 1963, when I was just 17, I took A-levels in biology, chemistry and physics, intending to be a doctor.
Posted on: 16 February 2024
Alumni Memories Eurovision Podcast
In this special one-off podcast, we talk to academic and University of Liverpool alumnus Dr Sam Murray about the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest, which this year is being held in Liverpool on behalf of Ukraine.
Posted on: 2 May 2023
Alumni Memories: Eurovision 2004
In another in our Eurovision memories, we spoke to Patrick Clancy from the University’s Development and Alumni team about his favourite Eurovision memory. It involves a previous win for the current holders of the Eurovision crown, Ukraine, on whose behalf Liverpool is hosting this year’s competition.
Posted on: 25 April 2023
Alumni Memories: Eurovision 2011
In another of our Alumni Eurovision Memories, alumna and Eurovision superfan, Layla George (BA Hons Sociology and Social Policy 2003), shares her earliest Eurovision memories, and describes the excitement of attending her first Eurovision Song Contest in Dusseldorf in 2011 with partner and fellow alumnus Paul Dudley (BEng Hons Computer Science and Electronic Engineering 2004).
Posted on: 24 April 2023
Alumni Memories: Eurovision 1985
In another of our alumni Eurovision memories’ series, Dr Sarah Green (BSc Hons Molecular Biology 1998, PhD 2005), University fundraiser and Eurovision superfan, shares her earliest childhood memories of Eurovision.
Posted on: 20 April 2023
Alumni Memories: Eurovision 1998
In the second of our Alumni Memories Eurovision specials, another of our alumni remembers her favourite Eurovision moment from 1998, and a ground-breaking winner.
Posted on: 19 April 2023
Alumni Memories: Eurovision 1967
To mark the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest, which this year Liverpool is proudly hosting on behalf of Ukraine, we asked alumni to contact us with their special Eurovision memories.
Posted on: 18 April 2023
Veterinary graduate reunited with society scarf 60 years on
It was like any other visit to the Guild of Students for veterinary student, Mike Hayes as he arrived at the union one evening in 1959. Only he entered the Guild wearing his veterinary school scarf and mistakenly left without it.
Posted on: 10 February 2023
Alumni Memories: ‘Reminiscences of the Department of Music’ by Dr James Dack
Our university days are full of some of the most treasured memories of our lifetimes. In the next of our 'Alumni Memories' series, music alumnus Dr James Dack (BA Hons Music 1965, BMus Hons 1968, PhD Music 1976) shares his memories as a music student in the 1960s at the very beginning of the Department of Music.
Posted on: 7 August 2022
Alumni Memories: 'The Open Air Club'
Our University days are full of some of the greatest achievements and most treasured memories of our lifetimes. In the next of our 'Alumni Memories' series, alumnus Ernie Savage (BA Hons Geography 1962) shares the joy of University societies, as many members from the Open Air Club (OAC) of his time continue to meet as the 'OAC Gold' - still going strong 60 years on!
Posted on: 23 May 2022
Alumni Memories: ‘My year as Guild President’
Our University days are full of some of the greatest achievements and most treasured memories of our lifetimes. In the next of our 'Alumni Memories' series, alumnus Christopher Graham (BA Hons History 1973) is celebrating 50 years since he served as Guild President and shares some of standout memories from his year in the position.
Posted on: 28 March 2022