Timeline of Liverpool

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Prior to 18th century[]

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  • 1089. The West Derby Hundred is recorded in the Domesday Book[1]
  • 1207 – 28 August: Liverpool and its market chartered by King John.[2][3]
  • 1292 – John De More becomes mayor.
  • 1298 – Liverpool fair active.[3]
  • 1349 – The Black Death plague hits Liverpool.[4]
  • 1598 – Speke Hall (house) built.
  • 1662 – Population: 775.[5]
  • 1644 – Town besieged by forces of Prince Rupert of the Rhine.[6]
  • 1674 – Town Hall rebuilt.[5]
  • 1684 - Richard Atherton becomes Lord Mayor of Liverpool and secures the surrender of the Liverpool Charter, which was delivered to George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys, known as Judge Jeffreys at Bewsey Old Hall in 1684. The notes on the Liverpool Charters refer to Atherton as the first modern Mayor of Liverpool.

18th century[]

  • 1700
    • Liverpool Merchant slave ship begins operating.[7]
    • Population: 5,714.[5]
  • 1702 – Croxteth Hall (house) built.
  • 1704 – Woolton Hall (house) built.
  • 1708 – Blue Coat School founded.[5]
  • 1717 – Bluecoat Chambers built.
  • 1718 – Blue Coat hospital opens.[8]
  • 1720 – Population: 10,446.[9]
  • 1722 – Ranelagh Gardens open.
  • 1724 – 25 August: Animal painter George Stubbs born.
  • 1726
  • 1749 – Royal Infirmary opens.[8]
  • 1753 – Salthouse Dock opens.[6]
  • 1754 – Liverpool Town Hall built.[8]
  • 1756 – Liverpool Advertiser newspaper begins publication.[11]
  • 1758 – Circulating library established.[12]
  • 1766 – City directory published.[13]
  • 1770s – Scotland Road laid out.
  • 1771
  • 1772 – Theatre built.[5]
  • 1779 – Medical Library founded.[5]
  • 1784 – Liverpool Musical Festival begins.[14]
  • 1785 – Liverpool Georgian Quarter constructed.
  • 1788 – St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church built.
  • 1790
    • Lime Street laid out.
    • Consulate of the United States, Liverpool established.
  • 1791 – School for the Blind founded.[5]
  • 1792 – Holy Trinity Church, Wavertree, consecrated
  • 1797 – Liverpool Athenaeum founded.

19th century[]

Expansions of Liverpool boundaries in 1835, 1895, 1902, 1905 and 1913

1800s-1840s[]

Map of Liverpool, 1836
  • 1801 – Population: 77,653.[9]
  • 1802 – Liverpool Library founded.[15]
  • 1803 – Botanical Gardens open.[16]
  • 1805 – Extension to Liverpool Town Hall completed providing the main ballroom and council chamber
  • 1807
    • March – Slave Trade Act in the United Kingdom and Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves in the United States outlaw the Atlantic slave trade. On 27 July Kitty's Amelia sails on the last legal British slaving voyage.
    • Liverpool Cricket Club formed.
  • 1809 – Exchange Buildings constructed.[5]
  • 1810
    • Borough Gaol built.[5]
    • Williamson Tunnels started.
  • 1812 – Literary and Philosophical Society founded.
  • 1815 – Manchester Dock built.
  • 1816 – Leeds and Liverpool Canal constructed.[5]
  • 1817 – Liverpool Royal Institution established.[8][17]
  • 1819 - SS Savannah completes first steamship transatlantic sailing.
  • 1822
    • Apprentices' Library founded.[5]
    • The old St John's Market was designed by John Foster Junior and built.
  • 1823 – Marine Humane Society founded.[16]
  • 1825 – Liverpool Mechanics' School of Arts[5] and Philomathic Society[11] established.
  • 1826
  • 1827 – Law Society established.[11]
  • 1828 – Borough Sessions House built.[5]
  • 1829 – Canning Dock opens.[18]
  • 1830
  • 1831 – Population: 165,175.[5]
  • 1832
  • 1833 – Zoological gardens open.[11]
  • 1835
    • City boundaries expand.[8]
    • First elected Town Council replaces Common Council.
  • 1836
    • The Liverpool Stock Exchange was founded known as 'The Liverpool Sharebrokers' Association'
    • Liverpool Anti-Slavery Society active (approximate date).[citation needed]
    • Literary, Scientific and Commercial Institution[5] and Liverpool Town Borough Police established.
    • Liverpool Lime Street railway station opens to the public.
  • 1837 – Liverpool Chess Club formed.[21]
  • 1838 – Brougham Institute[5] and Polytechnic Society established.[11]
  • 1839
    • Customs House built.[5]
    • Northern Mechanics' Institution and Tradesmen's Institution founded.[5]
  • 1840
    • Liverpool College[22] and Liverpool Philharmonic Society[14] founded.
    • Cunard's steamship Britannia sails from Liverpool to Boston.[23]
  • 1842
    • St. Francis Xavier's College established.[22]
    • Robertson Gladstone becomes mayor.
  • 1843 – Princes Park laid out.[8]
  • 1844
    • Canning Half Tide Dock opens.[18]
    • Royal Mersey Yacht Club established.
  • 1845 – Liverpool Observatory built.[11]
  • 1846 – Albert Dock opens.[24]
  • 1848
  • 1849
    • Philharmonic Hall opens.
    • Victoria Tunnel (Liverpool) and Waterloo Tunnel opened connecting Edge Hill railway station to Liverpool Riverside railway station.

1850s-1890s[]

  • 1850 – Catholic Institute established.[22]
  • 1851
    • Derby Museum opens.
    • Balfour Williamson in business.
    • Collins Line SS Baltic (1850) sails Liverpool-New York in under ten days breaking transatlantic record.
  • 1852
    • African Steamship Company in business.
    • Liverpool Free Public Library[26] and sailors' home[8] open.
    • Hebrews' Educational Institution founded.[11]
    • A quarter of the city's population is Irish, a legacy of the Great Irish Famine.
  • 1854 – St George's Hall built.[8]
  • 1855
    • February: Economic unrest.[16]
    • Liverpool Daily Post begins publication.
  • 1856 – Lewis's shop in business.
  • 1857 – Mersey Docks & Harbour Board established.[27]
  • 1859 – Thomas Royden & Sons in business.
  • 1860 – William Brown Library and Museum building opens.[26]
  • 1862 – Grand Olympic Festival begins.
  • 1863 – Liverpool Amateur Photographic Association founded.[28]
  • 1864 – Garston and Liverpool Railway opened.
    • Oriel Chambers built.
  • 1866 – Star Music Hall opens.
  • 1867 – Alliance Israélite Universelle branch founded.[29]
  • 1868
    • Elder Dempster and Company in business.
    • Newsham Park opens.
    • Owen Owen opens his drapery business.
  • 1869
    • West Coast Main Line connecting Liverpool to London bypassing Manchester completed.
    • The Conservative local authority builds the first council housing in Europe, St Martin's Cottages (tenement flats) in Ashfield Street, Vauxhall.[30]
    • Fowler's Buildings constructed.
    • Liverpool Tramways Company opened.
  • 1870
    • Stanley Park opens.
    • Greek Orthodox Church of St Nicholas built.
    • Incorporated Society of Liverpool Accountants formed.
  • 1871 – North Western Hotel built.
  • 1872
    • Sefton Park opens.[8]
    • Midland Railway Goods Warehouse built.
  • 1873
  • 1874
  • 1877 – Walker Art Gallery opens.
  • 1878 Everton football club founded
  • 1879
    • Picton Reading Room built.[26]
    • Liverpool Echo newspaper begins publication.[31]
    • Salvation Army active.[32]
    • North Liverpool Extension Line outer rail loop opens.
  • 1880
    • Liverpool attains city status.
    • Aigburth Cricket Ground built.
  • 1881 – University College Liverpool chartered.[8]
    • Liverpool Central High Level railway station introduced 40 minute journey services to Manchester Central.
  • 1884
  • 1886
    • Mersey Railway Tunnel opens;[8] Mersey Railway (Birkenhead-Liverpool) begins operating.
    • Liverpool and Birkenhead Women's Peace and Arbitration Association organized.[35]
  • 1887 – Liverpool Muslim Institute founded.
  • 1888 – Shakespeare Theatre opens.[20]
  • 1889 – Liverpool removed from Lancashire as Lancashire County Palatine replaced.
  • 1890
    • Liverpool and North Wales Steamship Company began operating.
    • Liverpool Union of Girls' Clubs formed.[36]
    • Bowes Museum of Japanese Art Work opens.[37]
  • 1892
    • Goodison Park (athletic field) inaugurated.
    • Victoria Building, University of Liverpool constructed.
    • Robert Durning Holt becomes mayor.
    • Liverpool Football Club formed.
  • 1893 – Liverpool Overhead Railway begins operating.
  • 1895 – City boundaries expand to include West Derby and others.[8]
  • 1897 – Gregson Memorial Institute built.[17]
  • 1898
  • 1899 – Liverpool University Press founded.
  • 1899-1900 - George's Dock closed and filled in.

20th century[]

1900s-1940s[]

  • 1901 – Population: 684,958.[8]
  • 1902
    • City boundaries expand.[8]
    • Sefton Park Gazette begins publication.[38]
  • 1904 – Foundation stone of the Anglican Cathedral is laid by King Edward VII.
  • 1906 – Liverpool Cotton Exchange Building constructed.
  • 1907
    • August: 700th anniversary of city founding.[39]
    • Dock Office built.[40]
  • 1908 – Meccano Ltd in business.
  • 1909
    • June: Catholic-Protestant conflict.[41]
    • The world's first Department of Civic Design, which later spawns the town planning movement, is set up at the University of Liverpool.
  • 1911
    • 1911 Liverpool general transport strike.
    • Royal Liver Building constructed.
    • Rodewald Concert Society founded.
  • 1912 – Lime Street Picture House opens.[42]
  • 1913 – Crane's Music Hall opens.[citation needed]
  • 1914
    • 14 March: Reconstructed Adelphi Hotel is opened by the Midland Railway.[43]
    • 30 May: Cunarder RMS Aquitania begins her maiden voyage to New York.
    • 27 August: Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby, launches the Liverpool Pals battalions scheme.[44]
  • 1916 – 30 July: "Liverpool's blackest day" – 500 men in Liverpool Pals battalions are killed in an attack on Guillemont in the Battle of the Somme[44] (following 200 deaths on the First day on the Somme).
  • 1917
    • Cunard Building constructed.[17]
    • Liverpool Commercial Reference Library opens.[45]
  • 1919
    • Racial conflict.[46]
    • Cunard's luxury liner services moved to Southampton.
  • 1922 – African Churches Mission, and African and West Indian Mission organized.[47]
  • 1924–1932 – India Buildings is built.
  • 1925 – Empire Theatre opens.
  • 1927
    • A5058 road Queens Drive ring road completed.
    • Woolton Picture House cinema opens.
  • 1928 – Ferries to Eastham Ferry cease operation.[48]
  • 1930 – Speke Airport begins operating.
  • 1931 – Population 855,688.[49] This is the peak size of Liverpool's population.
  • 1932 - 1932 Summer Olympics gold medal for town planning awarded to John Hughes (architect) for city of Liverpool sports stadium.
  • 1934
    • 18 July: Royal opening of Queensway Tunnel, the A580 road (Liverpool–East Lancashire Road, the UK's first intercity highway) and Walton Hall Park.
    • Paramount Theatre opens.[42]
  • 1938 – Liverpool Zoological Park closed.
  • 1940 – August: Liverpool Blitz: Aerial bombing by German forces begins.
  • 1942 – January: Liverpool Blitz: Aerial bombing by German forces ends.
  • 1944 – Merseyside Unity Theatre active.
  • 1946 – Liverpool Corporation begins development of Kirkby Industrial Estate on a former ordnance factory site.
  • 1948 – 31 May: Canada Dock Branch railway closed to intermediate passengers.
  • 1949 – 19 March: Cameo murder.

1950s-1990s[]

Merseyrail electrification
  • 1951 – Ditton dodger train service withdrawn.
  • 1952 – City twinned with Cologne, Germany.
  • 1953 – Liverpool Muslim Society founded.
  • 1955 – Stirling Moss wins the British Grand Prix at Aintree
  • 1956 – 30 December: Liverpool Overhead Railway urban rail transit system with fourteen stations last runs amid protest against closure.
  • 1957
    • 15 January: The Cavern Club opens as a jazz club.
    • 6 July: John Lennon and Paul McCartney of The Beatles first meet at a garden fete at St. Peter's Church, Woolton, at which Lennon's skiffle group, The Quarrymen (formed 1956), is playing (and in the graveyard of which an Eleanor Rigby is buried).
    • 7 August: The Quarrymen first play at The Cavern Club in an interlude spot between jazz bands; when John Lennon starts the group playing an Elvis Presley number, the club's owner at this time hands him a note reading "Cut out the bloody rock 'n roll".[50]
    • 14 September: Liverpool Corporation Tramways close after the last tram runs in Liverpool, 88 years after the first.
  • 1958 – Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral crypt completed to the design of Edwin Lutyens, but the remainder of his cathedral design is abandoned.
  • 1960
    • January: John Lennon's Liverpool College of Art friend Stu Sutcliffe joins his rock group and suggests they change their name to The Beatals.
    • 22 June: Fire in Henderson's department store kills eleven.[51]
    • 1 August: The Beatles make their first appearance under this name in Hamburg, Germany.
  • 1961
    • 9 February (lunchtime): The Beatles at The Cavern Club: The Beatles perform under this name at The Cavern Club for the first time following their return from Hamburg, George Harrison's first appearance at the venue. On 21 March they play the first of nearly 300 regular performances at the club.
    • 6 July: Mersey Beat begins publication.
    • 9 November: Future manager Brian Epstein first sees The Beatles at The Cavern Club.
  • 1962
    • 24 January: Brian Epstein signs a contract to manage The Beatles.
    • 16 September: Liverpool and North Wales Steamship Company makes its last sailings.
  • 1963 – 3 August: The Beatles perform at The Cavern Club for the final time as they begin a run of chart success.
  • 1964
    • Everyman Theatre founded.
    • St. John's Market demolished.
    • Sheil Park, three 22 storey towers (containing 516 flats) approved and later built.
  • 1965 – Shankland Plan including Churchill Way flyovers and 'walkways in the sky' published by Council Planner Graeme Shankland.[52]
  • 1966 – 24 hours a day, 7 days a week operation and new runway 09/28 suitable for jet aircraft at Liverpool Airport opened by Prince Philip.
    • Merseyside Area land use Transportation study (MALTS) project report.
  • 1967
    • 14 May: Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral (Roman Catholic) consecrated.
    • c. July–August: Liverpool Cotton Exchange Building partially demolished.
    • The Mersey Sound anthology of Liverpool poets published.[53]
    • 22 November: BBC Radio Merseyside launched.
  • 1968 – 30 January: RMS Franconia makes Cunard Line’s last scheduled voyage from Liverpool.[54]
  • 1969
  • 1970
    • Harrison Barnard & Co. headquartered in city.
    • Flyovers opened on Churchill Way.
  • 1971
    • Ferry service to New Brighton withdrawn.
    • Kingsway Tunnel opens.
  • 1972
    • Albert Dock closed. Seaforth Dock opens near city in the area of Seaforth, Lancashire.
    • North Liverpool Extension Line closed after a century's operation and track lifted.
    • Waterloo Tunnel/ Victoria Tunnel (Liverpool) (serving Waterloo branch from Edge Hill railway station to Liverpool Riverside railway station) and Wapping Tunnel closed, 123 years after opening.
    • Liverpool Central High Level railway station closed.
    • Canadian Pacific unit CP Ships are the last transatlantic line to operate from Liverpool.
  • 1973 – Prince's Landing Stage at Pier Head demolished.
  • 1974
    • City becomes a metropolitan borough within the newly created metropolitan county of Merseyside; Merseyside County Council established.
    • Post & Echo Building and New Hall Place constructed.
    • Al-Rahma Mosque established.
    • M57 motorway outer ring road completed and opened.
  • 1976 – M62 motorway junctions 4 to 6 (Tarbock) connecting Leeds and Manchester to Liverpool completed and opened.[55]
  • 1977
    • 26 September: Fire at St. John's Shopping Centre.[56]
    • Merseyrail formed and Liverpool Exchange railway station closed after 127 years and partially turned into a car park. Moorfields railway station opened on new loop Wirral line (3 January 1978) to replace Exchange. Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway branch line severed with buffer at Kirkby ending through trains to Manchester.
  • 1978 – 25 October: Construction of the Anglican Liverpool Cathedral is completed after 74 years.
  • 1979 – 17/18 December: Fire at St. John's Shopping Centre.[56]
  • 1980 – Merseyside Maritime Museum opens in the Albert Dock complex.[57]
  • 1981 – July: Toxteth riots.[58] Chancellor Sir Geoffrey Howe circulates a cabinet memo arguing for "managed decline".
  • 1982 – Mersey Television formed.
  • 1983 – Militant in Liverpool win control of the council.
  • 1984 – Albert Dock reopened as a leisure attraction. International Garden Festival held.
  • 1985
    • Militant in Liverpool set illegal council budget.
    • May: Liverpool trading floor finally ceases to exist.
  • 1986
    • Liverpool Airport Southern Terminal opens.
    • Silver Blades Ice Rink, Prescot Road closed.
  • 1987
    • Gerard Gardens closed.[59]
    • Brookside begins broadcasting.
  • 1988 – Tate Liverpool (modern art museum) opens in the Albert Dock.
  • 1989 – 15 April: Hillsborough disaster: 96 Liverpool F.C. supporters are killed as the result of a crush at a Sheffield stadium.
  • 1991 – Population: 452,450 residents.[60]
  • 1992
    • Cream (nightclub) begins.
    • Africa Oyé music festival begins.
    • Liverpool Community College established.
  • 1993
    • Museum of Liverpool Life opens.
    • Liverpool Mathew Street Music Festival begins.[61]
  • 1995 – Liverpool dockers' dispute (1995–98) begins.[62]
  • 1996 – Festival Gardens closes. National Conservation Centre opens.
  • 1998 – Mike Storey becomes Liverpool City Council leader.
  • 1999 – Liverpool Biennial begins.

21st century[]

  • 2001
    • Liverpool Wall of Fame unveiled.
    • Merseytram proposed.
  • 2002 – Liverpool International Tennis Tournament begins.
  • 2003 – 4 November: Brookside last broadcast.
  • 2004
  • 2006
    • Liverpool Urban Area established.
    • Liverpool Science Park established.
    • Royal Standard art gallery established on Mann St.[63]
  • 2007
    • Liverpool Cruise Terminal opens.
    • International Slavery Museum opens.
    • West Tower built.
    • Liverpool Shakespeare Festival begins.
    • David Moores sells Liverpool F.C. to American entrepreneurs Tom Hicks and George N. Gillett Jr..
  • 2008
    • City designated a European Capital of Culture.
    • Echo Arena Liverpool, BT Convention Centre and Liverpool One open.
    • One Park West and Alexandra Tower built.
    • A.F.C. Liverpool formed in response to the transfer of ownership of Liverpool F.C..
  • 2010 – National Oceanography Centre established.
  • 2011 – Museum of Liverpool opens on the waterfront.
  • 2010–2012 – Edge Lane widened.[64]
  • 2012
    • Directly elected office of Mayor of Liverpool established and Joe Anderson becomes mayor.[65]
    • Ocean Countess sets sail starting from Liverpool Cruise Terminal.[66]
  • 2013
    • 19 December: Liverpool Post last published.
    • Merseytram cancelled.
    • Yellow Duckmarine sinks in Salthouse Dock and ceases operations.[67]
    • Cunard Line resume cruising from Liverpool with Queen Mary 2, the largest ocean liner ever built.
  • 2014
  • 2016 – Liverpool2 container shipping port opened at Seaforth.
  • 2017
    • 8 May: Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City Region established including Liverpool, Halton, Knowsley, St Helens, Sefton and Wirral. Steve Rotheram is the first person elected to the office.[69]
    • Royal Institute of British Architects’ National Architecture Centre opened.
  • 2019
    • Churchill Way flyovers demolition begins.[70]
    • First black Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Anna Rothery, appointed.[71]
  • 2020
    • 23 March: Liverpool goes onto a nationwide lockdown with the rest of the UK due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
    • 25 June: Liverpool F.C. win the 2019–20 Premier League, their first victory of the Premier League era.
    • 31 July: Woolton Picturehouse announces its closure.[72]
    • 6 October: VOI e-scooter-sharing system launched in Liverpool.[73]
    • 14 October: COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom: Liverpool moves to the Tier 3 (very high) level of restriction.[74]
    • 4 December: 5 men, including current city mayor Joe Anderson and former deputy city council leader Derek Hatton, are arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit bribery and witness intimidation as part of an investigation into the awarding of public building contracts in the city.[75]
  • 2021
    • 30 April: COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom: Liverpool is the venue for a trial indoor music event.[76]
    • 6 May: Joanne Anderson is elected city Mayor of Liverpool, the first directly-elected black woman mayor of a major British city.[77]
    • 21 July: Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City delisted as a World Heritage Site with UNESCO.[78]

See also[]

  • History of Liverpool
  • List of Lord Mayors of Liverpool

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Further reading[]

Published in the 18th century[]

  • Liverpool Directory, for the Year 1766. Liverpool: Printed by W. Nevett and Co. for J. Gore.
  • William Enfield (1774), An essay towards the history of Leverpool (2nd ed.), London: J. Johnson, OL 23379980M
  • W. Bailey (1781). "Liverpool Directory". Bailey's Northern Directory. Warrington: Printed by William Ashton.
  • William Moss (1796). Liverpool Guide. Liverpool: Crane and Jones.
  • James Wallace (1796), A general and descriptive history of the ancient and present state, of the town of Liverpool, Liverpool: J. McCreery, OL 7197095M

Published in the 19th century[]

1800s-1840s[]

  • "Liverpool", Kearsley's Traveller's Entertaining Guide through Great Britain, London: George Kearsley, 1803
  • John Britton (1807), "Liverpool", Beauties of England and Wales, 9, London: Vernor, Hood & Sharpe, hdl:2027/mdp.39015063565736
  • Picture of Liverpool; or, Stranger's Guide (2nd ed.), Liverpool: Printed by Jones and Wright, and sold by Woodward and Alderson, 1808, OL 25319603M
  • John Corry (1810), The history of Liverpool, from the earliest authenticated period down to the present time, Liverpool: William Robinson
  • "Liverpool". Commercial Directory for 1818-19-20. Manchester: James Pigot. 1818.
  • Robert Watt (1824). "Liverpool". Bibliotheca Britannica. 4. Edinburgh: A. Constable. hdl:2027/mdp.39076005081505. OCLC 961753.
  • Henry Smithers (1825), Liverpool, its Commerce, Statistics, and Institutions, Liverpool: Printed by T. Kaye, OCLC 4587553, OL 6920334M
  • "Liverpool". Pigot & Co.'s National Commercial Directory for 1828-9. London: James Pigot. 1828.
  • "Liverpool", Cities and Principal Towns of the World, Cabinet Cyclopaedia, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 1830, OCLC 2665202
  • Stephen Reynolds Clarke (1830), "Liverpool", New Lancashire Gazetteer, London: H. Teesdale and Co., OCLC 6704104
  • Gore's Directory and View of Liverpool (PDF). Liverpool: J. and J. Mawdsley. 1834.[1]
  • "Liverpool". Cornish's Grand Junction, and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Companion. Birmingham: J. Cornish. 1837. hdl:2027/wu.89097042907.[2]
  • Picture of Liverpool. Liverpool: T. Taylor. 1837.
  • Francis Coghlan (1838). "Liverpool". Iron Road Book and Railway Companion from London to Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool. London: A.H. Baily & Co. hdl:2027/wu.89089014146.
  • Arthur Freeling (1838), "Liverpool Guide", Freeling's Grand Junction Railway Companion to Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham, H. Lacey[3]
  • "Liverpool", Osborne's Guide to the Grand Junction, Or Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester Railway, Birmingham: E.C. & W. Osborne, 1838
  • "Liverpool", Leigh's New Pocket Road-Book of England and Wales (7th ed.), London: Leigh and Son, 1839
  • Liverpool as It Is. 1840.
  • Alexander Brown (1843), Smith's Strangers' Guide to Liverpool, Liverpool: Benjamin Smith, OL 23369337M
  • John Thomson (1845), "Liverpool", New Universal Gazetteer and Geographical Dictionary, London: H.G. Bohn
  • "Liverpool". Slater's National Commercial Directory of Ireland; including ... English Towns of Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, West Bromwich, Leeds, Sheffield and Bristol, and in Scotland, those of Glasgow and Paisley. Manchester: I. Slater. 1846. hdl:2027/njp.32101045358296.
  • Samuel Lewis (1848), "Liverpool", Topographical Dictionary of England (7th ed.), London: S. Lewis and Co.

1850s-1890s[]

  • Thomas Baines (1852). History of the Commerce and Town of Liverpool. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.
  • "Liverpool", Black's Picturesque Tourist and Road-book of England and Wales (3rd ed.), Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1853
  • Richard Brooke (1853), Liverpool as it was during the last quarter of the eighteenth century. 1775 to 1800, Liverpool: J. Mawdsley and Son, OCLC 4612147, OL 6928908M
  • Thomas Baines (1859), Liverpool in 1859, London: Longman
  • George Measom (1859), "Liverpool", Official Illustrated Guide to the North-Western Railway, London: W.H. Smith and Son
  • Recollections of old Liverpool, Liverpool: J. F. Hughes, 1863, OL 25319604M
  • A. Green & Co.'s Directory for Liverpool and Birkenhead, 1870
  • James Stonehouse (c. 1870). Streets of Liverpool. Liverpool: E. Howell.
  • Black's Guide to Liverpool, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1871
  • "Liverpool Section". Commercial Directory and Shippers' Guide (3rd ed.). Liverpool: R.E. Fulton & Co. 1871.
  • James Picton (1875), Memorials of Liverpool, London: Longmans, Green, OL 7022210M v.2
  • "Liverpool", Official Guide and Album of the Cunard Steamship Company, S. Sharpe, 1877
  • John Parker Anderson (1881), "Lancashire: Liverpool", Book of British Topography: a Classified Catalogue of the Topographical Works in the Library of the British Museum Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, London: W. Satchell
  • Lewis's Handy Guide to Liverpool and Neighbourhood. Liverpool: Lewis's. 1884.
  • Liverpool a few years since (3rd ed.), Liverpool: A. Holden, 1885, OL 7239798M
  • City of Liverpool: Municipal archives and records, from A. D. 1700 to the passing of the municipal reform act, 1835, Liverpool: G. G. Walmsley, 1886, OL 14000568M
  • Frederick Dolman (1895), "Liverpool", Municipalities at Work: the Municipal Policy of Six Great Towns and its Influence on their Social Welfare, London: Methuen & Co., OCLC 8429493

Published in the 20th century[]

1900s-1940s[]

1950s-1990s[]

  • Richard Hawes (1998). "Municipal Regulation of Smoke Pollution in Liverpool, 1853–1866". Environment and History. 4 (1): 75–90. doi:10.3197/096734098779555718. JSTOR 20723060.

Published in the 21st century[]

  • Richard Lawton (2002). "Components of demographic change in a rapidly growing port-city: the case of Liverpool in the nineteenth century". In Richard Lawton and W. Robert Lee (ed.). Population and Society in Western European Port Cities, c.1650-1939. Liverpool University Press. ISBN 978-0-85323-435-7.
  • John Belchem (2007). Irish, Catholic and Scouse: The History of the Liverpool-Irish, 1800–1939. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.

External links[]

Coordinates: 53°24′N 3°00′W / 53.4°N 3°W / 53.4; -3

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