Leverhulme: The life of William Hesketh Lever shopping A bold and colourful design

A bold and colourful design of the iconic buildings that are part of the Liverpool skyline

A vibrant plush clownfish with an orange and white striped

This picture from 1896 is typical of the works Lever purchased to advertise soap

although his command of grouping and pose is remarkable

and a fascinating essay by John Griffiths on the development of British screw-manufacture

Leverhulme: The life of William Hesketh Lever shopping A bold and colourful designMany books have been written about the life of William Lever who later became the first Lord Leverhulme. This extensively illustrated history looks not only at the grocery business which grew from humble beginnings in Bolton to become the global giant Unilever, but it also tells the story of his mother and father, of his brother James, who was the other brother in Lever Brothers, and it recounts the lives of their eight sisters. It examines in more