Panoramic View of Liverpool, 1847. Source: Ramsay’s Bygone Liverpool. Click on image to enlarge it.
The materials with dates listed below are Victorian descriptions and histories of Liverpool, its politics, industry, churches and religious establishments, and so on. They have been included to show what people at various periods of the nineteenth century, not modern scholarhsip, believed about the city in which they lived and worked. — George P. Landow
Victorian Descriptions of Liverpool
Victorian Descriptions of Liverpool as a Commercial Power
- Trade and Manufacturing (1870)
- Liverpool’s Harbor and Docks (1870)
- Exports and Imports (1870)
- Railways and Stations (1870)
Victorian Descriptions of Liverpool’s Religious, Cultural, Educational, and Other Institutions
- Liverpool’s Pubic Buildings
- Liverpool’s Churches and Religious Institutions (1870)
- Liverpool’s Cultural Institutions (1870)
- Schools and Other Educational Institutions (1870)
- Hospitals, Alms Houses, Charitable Institutions, Workhouses, and Prisons (1870)
Modern Photographs of Liverpool’s Architecture and Sculpture
Bibliography
Blackie, Walker Graham. The Imperial Gazetteer: A General Dictionary of Geography, Physical, Political, Statistical and Descriptive. 4 vol South London: Blackie & Son, 1856. Internet Archive online version of a copy in the University of California Library. Web.9 November 2018.
Muir, Ramsay, et al. Bygone Liverpool. Liverpool: Young, 1913. Internet Archive online version of a copy in the University of Toronto Library. Web. 29 September 2022.
Wilson, John M. (John Marius). The imperial gazetteer of England and Wales: embracing recent changes in counties, dioceses, parishes, and boroughs: general statistics: postal arrangements: railway systems, &c.; and forming a complete description of the country. 8 vols. Edinburgh: A. Fullarton, 1870.Internet Archive online version of a copy in the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. Web. 17 September 2022.
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