'Tracing Your Liverpool Ancestors' gives a fascinating insight into everyday
life in the Liverpool area over the past four centuries. Aimed primarily at the
family and social historian, Mike Royden's highly readable guide introduces the
readers to the wealth of material available on the city's history and its
people.
In a series of short, information-packed chapters he describes, in vivid
detail, the rise of Liverpool through shipping, manufacturing and trade from the
original fishing village to the cosmopolitan metropolis of the present day.
Throughout he concentrates on the lives o the local people - on their experience
as Liverpool developed around them.
He looks at their living conditions, at poverty and the labouring poor, at
health and the ravages of disease, at the influence of religion and migration,
at education and the traumatic experience of war. He shows how the lives of
Liverpudlians changed over the centuries and how this is reflected in the
records that have survived.
Contents:
Introduction
Section 1. Work and Economy
1. The Rise of the Port
2. Shipbuilding
3. Shipping Lines and Seamen
4. Estate and Agriculture
5. Transport
Section 2. Society
6. Black Spot on the Mersey or a House in the Park
7. Poverty and the Labouring Poor
8. Health and Charity
9. The World in One City: Religion and Migration
10. Education
11. The Experience of War
Appendix 1. Research Guide
Appendix 2. Archives, Libraries and Local Study Centres
Appendix 3. Web Resources
Appendix 4. Other Useful Organisations and Resources
Appendix 5. Museums and Heritage Centres
Appendix 6. Recommended Reading
Index
