Reading

Recommended reading

If you wish to explore some of the topics in more depth, these are books used to prepare the tours.

Histories of Liverpool

  • Liverpool 800: Culture, Character and History — Edited by John Belchem
  • Liverpool 1660–1750 — Ascott, Lewis and Power
  • Liverpool: A People’s History — Peter Aughton
  • Tales from the Pool — Mike Royden
  • Liverpool Now and Then — Mike Royden
  • Merseyside at War, 1939–45 — Mike Royden
  • Liverpool — Joseph Sharples, Pevsner Architectural Guides
  • Liverpool: A History of the Great Port — Adrian Jarvis
  • Liverpool’s Own — Christine Dawe
  • Horrible Histories: Liverpool — Terry Deary
  • Liverpool’s Military Heritage — Ken Pye

Crime and violence in Liverpool

  • The Liverpool Underworld — Michael Macilwee
  • Sectarian Violence: The Liverpool Experience, 1819–1914 — Frank Neal

Liverpool and the American Civil War

  • The Lion and the Fox — Alexander Rose
  • Lincoln’s Spymaster — David Hepburn Milton

Liverpool and the Atlantic slave trade

  • Liverpool and the Atlantic Slave Trade — Anthony Tibbles
  • Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery — Richardson, Schwarz and Tibbles
  • The Earles of Liverpool — Peter Earle
  • The Slave Trade Streets of Liverpool — David Hearn
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