This website allows searches against the 1,370,526 individual life-event records we currently hold on Liverpool residents from 1704 to 1860 as well as searches against the 32,917 voyages from and/or to Liverpool we currently hold from 1759 to 1809. The Liverpool as a Trading Port Project.Includes The Times Digital Archive and lots more! Access a rich variety of reference sites at home, on the move or in the library. The British Newspaper Archive is a partnership between the British Library and findmypast to digitise up to 40 million newspaper pages from the British Library’s vast collection over the next 10 years.įree reference sites accessible with your Liverpool Libraries Card number.

British Newspaper Archive – invaluable service for researching both Liverpool and afar.

Liverpool Central Library – ‘Archives Search Facility’

Some of the articles published in the nineteenth-century volumes now constitute primary sources for certain aspects of the history of Lancashire and Cheshire.Īll volumes of the journal from volume 1 issued in 1849 for the 1848-49 session up to and including volume 1 have been digitised, and can be browsed below, or searched from this page’ ‘This represents a considerable and influential body of scholarly material on the history of the two counties.

The Historic Society of Lancashire & Cheshire.

Liverpool History Society – An amazing list of Online Books.

Check out the ‘Gores Directories’ at the very bottom of the page as well. A range of web resources, including free e-books, that may help you with researching Liverpool’s rich history.

Liverpool Pubs by Ken Pye