Historical Tour of Liverpool
History of Liverpool from 1207 to the 20th century. A guided walk through the streets where the city was built — trade, migration, architecture and the people who shaped the Pool.
Tours
Two guided tours of Liverpool — approximately two hours on foot. Choose the historical tour or the charity tour on the transatlantic slave trade.
History of Liverpool from 1207 to the 20th century. A guided walk through the streets where the city was built — trade, migration, architecture and the people who shaped the Pool.
All proceeds from this tour go to charity. This two-hour walking tour offers a frank introduction to Liverpool’s links with the Atlantic slave trade — how the port grew wealthy through the trade, and how that history is still written into the streets, buildings, and street names of the city centre.
The walk begins in the Rope Walks Area and continues through Blue Coat Chambers, Liverpool One, the Canning and Salthouse docks, the Strand, and the Town Hall. Along the way we explore the families, merchants, and places connected to the trade, the 18th-century buildings that still stand, and how Liverpool continues to reckon with this chapter of its past.