Timeline of Liverpool

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Liverpool, England.

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Prior to 18th century

• 1207 Liverpool founded by King John.[1]
  • Market active.[2]
• 1292 – John De More becomes mayor.
• 1298 – Liverpool fair active.[2]
• 1349 - The Black Death Plague hits Liverpool.[3]
• 1598 – Speke Hall (house) built.
• 1662 – Population: 775.[4]
• 1644 – Town besieged by forces of Prince Rupert of the Rhine.[5]
• 1674 – Town Hall rebuilt.[4]
• 1700
  • Liverpool Merchant slave ship begins operating.[6]
  • Population: 5,714.[4]

18th century

• 1702 – Croxteth Hall (house) built.
• 1704 – Woolton Hall (house) built.
• 1708 – Blue Coat School founded.[4]
• 1717 – Bluecoat Chambers built.
• 1718 – Blue Coat hospital opens.[7]
• 1720 – Population: 10,446.[8]
• 1722 – Ranelagh Gardens open.
• 1724 - George Stubbs born.
• 1726 - Liverpool Castle demolished.
  • Ye Hole in Ye Wall pub on Hackins Hey opens..[9]

• 1749 – Royal Infirmary opens.[7]
• 1753 – Salthouse Dock opens.[5]
• 1754 – Liverpool Town Hall built.[7]
• 1756 – Liverpool Advertiser newspaper begins publication.[10]
• 1758 – Circulating library established.[11]
• 1766 - City directory published.[12]
• 1770s - Scotland Road laid out.
• 1771
  • Bidston lighthouse built.[5]
  • George's Dock opens.
• 1772 – Theatre built.[4]
• 1779 – Medical Library founded.[4]
• 1784 - Liverpool Musical Festival begins.[13]
• 1785 - Liverpool Georgian Quarter constructed.
• 1788 – St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church built.
• 1790
  • Lime Street laid out.
  • Consulate of the United States, Liverpool established.
• 1791 – School for the Blind founded.[4]
• 1792 – Trinity Church consecrated
• 1797 – Liverpool Athenaeum founded.

19th century

Expansions of Liverpool boundaries in 1835, 1895, 1902, 1905 and 1913

1800s-1840s

Map of Liverpool, 1836

• 1801 – Population: 77,653.[8]
• 1802 – Liverpool Library founded.[14]
• 1803 – Botanical Gardens open.[15]
• 1805 - Extension to Liverpool Town Hall completed providing Main Ballroom and Council Chamber
• 1807 – Liverpool Cricket Club formed.
  • The African slave trade was outlawed by the United States and the United Kingdom.
• 1809 – Exchange Buildings constructed.[4]
• 1810 – Borough Gaol built.[4]
  • Williamson Tunnels started.
• 1812 – Literary and Philosophical Society founded.
• 1815 – Manchester Dock built.
• 1816 – Leeds and Liverpool Canal constructed.[4]
• 1817 – Liverpool Royal Institution established.[7][16]
• 1819 - SS Savannah completes first steamship transatlantic sailing.
• 1822 – Apprentices' Library founded.[4]
  • The old St John's Market was designed by John Foster Junior and built.
• 1823 – Marine Humane Society founded.[15]
• 1825 – Liverpool Mechanics' School of Arts[4] and Philomathic Society[10] established.
• 1826 – St James Cemetery laid out.
  • Old Dock closed.
• 1827 – Law Society established.[10]
• 1828 – Borough Sessions House built.[4]
• 1829 – Canning Dock opens.[17]
• 1830
  • Opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway begins operating.[4][18]
  • Wapping Tunnel opened.
  • Liver Theatre active.[19]
• 1831 – Population: 165,175.[4]
• 1832
  • Church of St Luke built.
  • John Swire and Sons in business.[16]
• 1833 – Zoological gardens open.[10]
• 1835 – City boundaries expand.[7]
• 1835 - First elected Town Council replaces Common Council.
• 1836
  • The Liverpool Stock Exchange was founded known as 'The Liverpool Sharebrokers' Association'
  • Liverpool Anti-Slavery Society active (approximate date).
  • Literary, Scientific and Commercial Institution[4] and Liverpool Town Borough Police established.
  • Liverpool Lime Street railway station opens to the public.
• 1837 – Liverpool Chess Club formed.[20]
• 1838 – Brougham Institute[4] and Polytechnic Society established.[10]
• 1839
  • Customs House built.[4]
  • Northern Mechanics' Institution and Tradesmen's Institution founded.[4]
• 1840
  • Liverpool College[21] and Liverpool Philharmonic Society[13] founded.
  • Cunard's steamship Britannia sails from Liverpool to Boston.[22]
• 1842
  • St. Francis Xavier's College established.[21]
  • Robertson Gladstone becomes mayor.
• 1843 – Princes Park laid out.[7]
• 1844
  • Canning Half Tide Dock opens.[17]
  • Royal Mersey Yacht Club established.
• 1845 – Liverpool Observatory built.[10]
• 1846 – Albert Dock opens.[23]
• 1848
  • Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway opened.
  • Liverpool Financial Reform Association; Architectural and Archaeological Society;[10][24] and Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire formed.[10]
  • Cope Bros & Co in business.
  • Church of Saint Francis Xavier consecrated.
• 1849 – Philharmonic Hall opens.
  • Victoria Tunnel (Liverpool) and Waterloo Tunnel opened connecting Edge Hill railway station to Liverpool Riverside railway station.

1850s-1890s

• 1850 – Catholic Institute established.[21]
• 1851
  • Derby Museum opens.
  • Balfour Williamson in business.
  • Collins Line SS Baltic (1850) sails Liverpool-New York in under ten days breaking transatlantic record.
• 1852
  • African Steamship Company in business.
  • Liverpool Free Public Library[25] and sailors' home[7] open.
  • Hebrews' Educational Institution founded.[10]
  • A quarter of the city's population is Irish, a legacy of the Great Irish Famine.
• 1854 – St George's Hall built.[7]
• 1855
  • February: Economic unrest.[15]
  • Liverpool Daily Post begins publication.
• 1856 – Lewis's shop in business.
• 1857 – Mersey Docks & Harbour Board established.[26]
• 1859 – Thomas Royden & Sons in business.
• 1860 – William Brown Library and Museum building opens.[25]
• 1862 – Grand Olympic Festival begins.
• 1863 – Liverpool Amateur Photographic Association founded.[27]
• 1864 – Garston and Liverpool Railway opened.
  • Oriel Chambers built.
• 1866 – Star Music Hall opens.
• 1867 – Alliance Israélite Universelle branch founded.[28]
• 1868
  • Elder Dempster and Company in business.
  • Newsham Park opens.
  • Owen Owen opens his drapery business.
• 1869
  • West Coast Main Line connecting Liverpool to London bypassing Manchester completed.
  • The Conservative local authority builds the first council housing in Europe, St Martin's Cottages (tenement flats) in Ashfield Street, Vauxhall.[29]
  • Fowler's Buildings constructed.
  • Liverpool Tramways Company opened.
• 1870
  • Stanley Park opens.
  • Greek Orthodox Church of St Nicholas built.
  • Incorporated Society of Liverpool Accountants formed.
• 1871 – North Western Hotel built.
• 1872
  • Sefton Park opens.[7]
  • Midland Railway Goods Warehouse built.
• 1873
  • Liverpool–Manchester lines opened by Cheshire Lines Committee.
• 1874
  • Liverpool Central railway station opens.
  • Liverpool Institute High School for Girls established.
  • Princes Road Synagogue consecrated.
• 1877 – Walker Art Gallery opens.
• 1878 Everton football club founded
• 1879
  • Picton Reading Room built.[25]
  • Liverpool Echo newspaper begins publication.[30]
  • Salvation Army active.[31]
  • North Liverpool Extension Line outer rail loop opens.
• 1880
  • Liverpool attains city status.
  • Aigburth Cricket Ground built.
• 1881 – University College Liverpool chartered.[7]
  • Liverpool Central High Level railway station introduced 40 minute journey services to Manchester Central.
• 1884
  • Anfield (athletic space) opens.[32]
  • County Sessions House, Gustav Adolf Church, and Picton Clock Tower built.
  • Everton Road drill hall completed.[33]
• 1886
  • Mersey Railway Tunnel opens;[7] Mersey Railway (Birkenhead-Liverpool) begins operating.
  • Liverpool and Birkenhead Women's Peace and Arbitration Association organized.[34]
• 1887 – Liverpool Muslim Institute founded.
• 1888 – Shakespeare Theatre opens.[19]
• 1889 – Liverpool removed from Lancashire as Lancashire County Palatine replaced.
  • Florence Institute for Boys established in Dingle.
• 1890
  • Liverpool and North Wales Steamship Company began operating.
  • Liverpool Union of Girls' Clubs formed.[35]
  • Bowes Museum of Japanese Art Work opens.[36]
• 1892
  • Goodison Park (athletic field) inaugurated.
  • Victoria Building, University of Liverpool constructed.
  • Robert Durning Holt becomes mayor.
  • Liverpool Football Club formed.
• 1893 – Liverpool Overhead Railway begins operating.
• 1895 – City boundaries expand to include West Derby and others.[7]
• 1897 – Gregson Memorial Institute built.[16]
• 1898
  • Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine founded.[16]
  • White Star Building constructed.
  • Liverpool Tramways Company closed.
• 1899 – Liverpool University Press founded.
• 1899-1900 - George's Dock closed and filled in.

20th century

1900s-1940s

• 1901 – Population: 684,958.[7]
• 1902
  • City boundaries expand.[7]
  • Sefton Park Gazette begins publication.[37]
• 1904 Foundation stone of the Anglican Cathedral is laid by King Edward VII.
• 1906 – Liverpool Cotton Exchange Building constructed.
• 1907
  • August: 700th anniversary of city founding.[38]
  • Dock Office built.[39]
• 1908 – Meccano Ltd in business.
• 1909 – June: Catholic-Protestant conflict.[40]
  • the world’s first Department of Civic Design, which later spawned the town planning movement, was set up at the University of Liverpool
• 1911
  • 1911 Liverpool general transport strike.
  • Royal Liver Building constructed.
  • Rodewald Concert Society founded.
• 1912 – Lime Street Picture House opens.[41]
• 1913 – Crane's Music Hall opens.
• 1914 – Adelphi Hotel opens.
• 1917
  • Cunard Building constructed.[16]
  • Liverpool Commercial Reference Library opens.[42]
• 1919 – Racial conflict.[43]
  • Cunard's luxury liner services moved to Southampton.
• 1922 – African Churches Mission, and African and West Indian Mission organized.[44]
• 1924-1932 - India Buildings is built.
• 1925 – Empire Theatre opens.
• 1927 - A5058 road Queens Drive inner ring road completed.
  • Woolton Picture House cinema in Liverpool opens.
• 1928 - Ferries to Eastham Ferry cease operation.[45]
• 1930 – Speke Airport begins operating.
• 1931 – Population 855,688.[46] This is the peak size of Liverpool's population.
• 1934 – Queensway Tunnel, Walton Hall Park and the first intercity highway in the UK - the A580 road/East Lancs Road and Paramount Theatre[41] open.
• 1938 - Liverpool Zoological Park closed.
• 1940 – August: Aerial bombing by German forces begins.
• 1942 – January: Aerial bombing by German forces ends.
• 1944 – Merseyside Unity Theatre active.
• 1948 - Canada Dock Branch closed to passengers.
• 1949 – 19 March: Cameo murder.

1950s-1990s

Merseyrail electrification

• 1951 - Ditton dodger train service withdrawn.
• 1952 – City twinned with Cologne, Germany.
• 1953 – Liverpool Muslim Society founded.
• 1955 - Stirling Moss wins the British Grand Prix at Aintree
• 1956 - Liverpool Overhead Railway Metro and fourteen stations closed amid protest.
• 1957
  • Liverpool Corporation Tramways closed after last tram runs in Liverpool, 88 years after the first.
  • The Cavern Club opens as a jazz club.
  • The Quarrymen, a skiffle group which is the predecessor of The Beatles, play their first gigs and Paul McCartney joins them.
• 1958 - Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral crypt completed. Lutyens Cathedral design abandoned.
• 1960 – The Beatles pop group first performs under this name, initially as The Beatals.
• 1961 – Mersey Beat begins publication.
• 1962 - Liverpool and North Wales Steamship Company ceases operations.
• 1964 – Everyman Theatre founded.
  • St. John's Market demolished.
  • Sheil Park, three 22 storey towers (containing 516 flats) approved and later built.
• 1965 - Shankland Plan including Churchill Way flyovers and 'walkways in the sky' published by Council Planner Graeme Shankland.[47]
• 1966 - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week operation and new runway 09/28 suitable for jet aircraft at Liverpool Airport opened by Prince Philip.
• 1967
  • The Mersey Sound anthology of Liverpool poets published.[48]
  • Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral built.
  • Liverpool Cotton Exchange Building partially demolished.
• 1968 – Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive established.
  • RMS Franconia, Cunard Line’s last scheduled voyage from Liverpool on January 30, 1968[49].
• 1969
  • Radio City Tower built.
  • St. John's Shopping Centre and Clayton Square Shopping Centre in business.
  • Garston extension line closed.
• 1970 – Harrison Barnard & Co. headquartered in city.
• 1970 - Flyovers opened on Churchill Way.
• 1971 - Ferry service to New Brighton withdrawn.
• 1971 – Kingsway Tunnel opens.
• 1972 – Albert Dock closed. Seaforth Dock opens near city in the area of Seaforth, Lancashire.
  • North Liverpool Extension Line closed after a century's operation and track lifted.
  • Waterloo Tunnel/ Victoria Tunnel (Liverpool) (serving Waterloo branch from Edge Hill railway station to Liverpool Riverside railway station) and Wapping Tunnel closed, 123 years after opening.
  • Liverpool Central High Level railway station closed.
  • Canadian Pacific unit CP Ships were the last transatlantic line to operate from Liverpool.
• 1973 - Prince's Landing Stage at Pier Head demolished.
• 1974
  • City becomes a metropolitan borough within the newly created metropolitan county of Merseyside; Merseyside County Council established.
  • Post & Echo Building and New Hall Place constructed.
  • Al-Rahma Mosque established.
  • M57 motorway outer ring road completed and opened.
• 1976 - M62 motorway junctions 4 to 6 (Tarbock) connecting Leeds and Manchester to Liverpool completed and opened.[50]
• 1977 - Merseyrail formed and Liverpool Exchange railway station closed after 127 years and partially turned into a car park. Moorfields railway station opened on new loop Wirral line to replace Exchange. Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway branch line severed with buffer at Kirkby ending through trains to Manchester.
• 1978 – Construction of the Anglican Cathedral is completed.
• 1980 – Merseyside Maritime Museum opens.[51]
• 1981 – July: Toxteth riots.[52] Chancellor Sir Geoffrey Howe circulates a cabinet memo arguing for "managed decline".
• 1982 - Mersey Television formed.
• 1983 - Militant in Liverpool win control of the council.
• 1984 – Albert Dock reopened. International Garden Festival held.
• 1985 - Militant in Liverpool set illegal council budget.
  • Liverpool trading floor finally ceased to exist in May 1985.
• 1986 - Liverpool Airport Southern Terminal opens.
• 1987 - Gerard Gardens closed.[53]
  • Brookside began broadcast.
• 1988 – Tate Liverpool (modern art museum) opens in the Albert Dock.
• 1989 – 15 April: Hillsborough disaster: 96 Liverpool F.C. supporters are killed as the result of a crush at a Sheffield stadium.
• 1991 – Population: 452,450 residents.[54]
• 1992
  • Cream (nightclub) begins.
  • Africa Oyé music festival begins.
  • Liverpool Community College established.
• 1993
  • Museum of Liverpool Life opens.
  • Liverpool Mathew Street Music Festival begins.[55]
• 1995 – Liverpool dockers' strike begins.[56]
• 1996 – Festival Gardens closes. National Conservation Centre opens.
• 1998 – Mike Storey becomes Liverpool City Council leader.
• 1999 – Liverpool Biennial begins.

21st century

• 2001
  • Liverpool Wall of Fame unveiled.
  • Merseytram proposed.
• 2002 – Liverpool International Tennis Tournament begins.
• 2003 – Brookside ceases broadcast.
• 2004
  • Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City registered as a World Heritage Site with UNESCO.
  • Liverpool Culture Company formed.
  • Homotopia (festival) begins.
• 2006
  • Liverpool Urban Area established.
  • Liverpool Science Park established.
  • Royal Standard art gallery established.[57]
• 2007
  • Liverpool Cruise Terminal opens.
  • International Slavery Museum opens.
  • West Tower built.
  • Liverpool Shakespeare Festival begins.
  • David Moores sells Liverpool F.C. to American entrepreneurs Tom Hicks and George N. Gillett Jr..
• 2008
  • City designated a European Capital of Culture.
  • Echo Arena Liverpool, BT Convention Centre and Liverpool One open.
  • One Park West and Alexandra Tower built.
  • A.F.C. Liverpool formed in response to the transfer of ownership of Liverpool F.C..
• 2010 – National Oceanography Centre established.
• 2011 – Museum of Liverpool opens on the waterfront.
• 2010–2012 – Edge Lane widened.
• 2012
  • Mayor of Liverpool established and Joe Anderson becomes mayor.[58]
  • Ocean Countess sets sail starting from Liverpool Cruise Terminal.
• 2013
  • 19 December: Liverpool Post last published.
  • Merseytram cancelled.
  • Yellow Duckmarine sinks in Salthouse Dock and ceases operations.
  • Cunard Line resume cruising from Liverpool with Queen Mary 2, the largest ocean liner ever built.
• 2014
  • Liverpool City Region Combined Authority established.
  • Liverpool TV launched.
• 2016 – Liverpool2 container shipping port opened at Seaforth.
• 2017
  • Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City Region established.
  • Royal Institute of British Architects’ National Architecture Centre opened.
• 2019
  • Flyovers on Churchill way closed.
  • First black Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Anna Rothery, appointed.
• 2020 – Liverpool F.C. win the 2019–20 Premier League.
  • - Woolton Picturehouse closes.[59]

See also

• History of Liverpool
• List of Lord Mayors of Liverpool

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Further reading

Published in the 18th century

• Liverpool Directory, for the Year 1766. Liverpool: Printed by W. Nevett and Co. for J. Gore.
• William Enfield (1774), An essay towards the history of Leverpool (2nd ed.), London: J. Johnson, OL 23379980M
• W. Bailey (1781). "Liverpool Directory". Bailey's Northern Directory. Warrington: Printed by William Ashton.
• William Moss (1796). Liverpool Guide. Liverpool: Crane and Jones.
• James Wallace (1796), A general and descriptive history of the ancient and present state, of the town of Liverpool, Liverpool: J. McCreery, OL 7197095M

Published in the 19th century

1800s-1840s

• "Liverpool", Kearsley's Traveller's Entertaining Guide through Great Britain, London: George Kearsley, 1803
• John Britton (1807), "Liverpool", Beauties of England and Wales, 9, London: Vernor, Hood & Sharpe, hdl:2027/mdp.39015063565736
• Picture of Liverpool; or, Stranger's Guide (2nd ed.), Liverpool: Printed by Jones and Wright, and sold by Woodward and Alderson, 1808, OL 25319603M
• John Corry (1810), The history of Liverpool, from the earliest authenticated period down to the present time, Liverpool: William Robinson
• "Liverpool". Commercial Directory for 1818-19-20. Manchester: James Pigot. 1818.
• Robert Watt (1824). "Liverpool". Bibliotheca Britannica. 4. Edinburgh: A. Constable. hdl:2027/mdp.39076005081505. OCLC 961753.
• Henry Smithers (1825), Liverpool, its Commerce, Statistics, and Institutions, Liverpool: Printed by T. Kaye, OCLC 4587553, OL 6920334M
• "Liverpool". Pigot & Co.'s National Commercial Directory for 1828-9. London: James Pigot.
• "Liverpool", Cities and Principal Towns of the World, Cabinet Cyclopaedia, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 1830, OCLC 2665202
• Stephen Reynolds Clarke (1830), "Liverpool", New Lancashire Gazetteer, London: H. Teesdale and Co., OCLC 6704104
• Gore's Directory and View of Liverpool (PDF). Liverpool: J. and J. Mawdsley. 1834.
• "Liverpool". Cornish's Grand Junction, and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Companion. Birmingham: J. Cornish. 1837. hdl:2027/wu.89097042907.
• Picture of Liverpool. Liverpool: T. Taylor. 1837.
• Francis Coghlan (1838). "Liverpool". Iron Road Book and Railway Companion from London to Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool. London: A.H. Baily & Co. hdl:2027/wu.89089014146.
• Arthur Freeling (1838), "Liverpool Guide", Freeling's Grand Junction Railway Companion to Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham, H. Lacey
• "Liverpool", Osborne's Guide to the Grand Junction, Or Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester Railway, Birmingham: E.C. & W. Osborne, 1838
• "Liverpool", Leigh's New Pocket Road-Book of England and Wales (7th ed.), London: Leigh and Son, 1839
• Liverpool as It Is. 1840.
• Alexander Brown (1843), Smith's Strangers' Guide to Liverpool, Liverpool: Benjamin Smith, OL 23369337M
• John Thomson (1845), "Liverpool", New Universal Gazetteer and Geographical Dictionary, London: H.G. Bohn
• "Liverpool". Slater's National Commercial Directory of Ireland; including ... English Towns of Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, West Bromwich, Leeds, Sheffield and Bristol, and in Scotland, those of Glasgow and Paisley. Manchester: I. Slater. 1846. hdl:2027/njp.32101045358296.
• Samuel Lewis (1848), "Liverpool", Topographical Dictionary of England (7th ed.), London: S. Lewis and Co.

1850s-1890s

• Thomas Baines (1852). History of the Commerce and Town of Liverpool. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.
• "Liverpool", Black's Picturesque Tourist and Road-book of England and Wales (3rd ed.), Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1853
• Richard Brooke (1853), Liverpool as it was during the last quarter of the eighteenth century. 1775 to 1800, Liverpool: J. Mawdsley and Son, OCLC 4612147, OL 6928908M
• Thomas Baines (1859), Liverpool in 1859, London: Longman
• George Measom (1859), "Liverpool", Official Illustrated Guide to the North-Western Railway, London: W.H. Smith and Son
• Recollections of old Liverpool, Liverpool: J. F. Hughes, 1863, OL 25319604M
• A. Green & Co.'s Directory for Liverpool and Birkenhead, 1870
• James Stonehouse (c. 1870). Streets of Liverpool. Liverpool: E. Howell.
• Black's Guide to Liverpool, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1871
• "Liverpool Section". Commercial Directory and Shippers' Guide (3rd ed.). Liverpool: R.E. Fulton & Co. 1871.
• James Picton (1875), Memorials of Liverpool, London: Longmans, Green, OL 7022210M v.2
• "Liverpool", Official Guide and Album of the Cunard Steamship Company, S. Sharpe, 1877
• John Parker Anderson (1881), "Lancashire: Liverpool", Book of British Topography: a Classified Catalogue of the Topographical Works in the Library of the British Museum Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, London: W. Satchell
• Lewis's Handy Guide to Liverpool and Neighbourhood. Liverpool: Lewis's. 1884.
• Liverpool a few years since (3rd ed.), Liverpool: A. Holden, 1885, OL 7239798M
• City of Liverpool: Municipal archives and records, from A. D. 1700 to the passing of the municipal reform act, 1835, Liverpool: G. G. Walmsley, 1886, OL 14000568M
• Frederick Dolman (1895), "Liverpool", Municipalities at Work: the Municipal Policy of Six Great Towns and its Influence on their Social Welfare, London: Methuen & Co., OCLC 8429493

Published in the 20th century

1900s-1940s

• Ramsay Muir (1907), A History of Liverpool (2nd ed.), London: Pub. for the University Press of Liverpool by Williams & Norgate, OL 24434716M
• George T. Shaw; Isabella Shaw, eds. (1907). Liverpool's First Directory. A Reprint of the Names and Addresses from Gore's Directory for 1766. Liverpool: Henry Young & Sons.
• Robert Donald, ed. (1907). "Liverpool". Municipal Year Book of the United Kingdom for 1907. London: Edward Lloyd.
• William Dean Howells (1909), "A Modest Liking for Liverpool", Seven English Cities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "Liverpool", Great Britain (7th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1910, hdl:2027/mdp.39015010546516
• Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Liverpool", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co.
• William Farrer; J. Brownbill, eds. (1911). "History of the County of Lancaster". Victoria County History. University of London, Institute of Historical Research. (includes Liverpool)

1950s-1990s

• Richard Hawes (1998). "Municipal Regulation of Smoke Pollution in Liverpool, 1853–1866". Environment and History. 4 (1): 75–90. doi:10.3197/096734098779555718. JSTOR 20723060.

Published in the 21st century

• Richard Lawton (2002). "Components of demographic change in a rapidly growing port-city: the case of Liverpool in the nineteenth century". In Richard Lawton and W. Robert Lee (ed.). Population and Society in Western European Port Cities, c.1650-1939. Liverpool University Press. ISBN 978-0-85323-435-7.
• John Belchem (2007). Irish, Catholic and Scouse: The History of the Liverpool-Irish, 1800–1939. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.

External links

• "Liverpool". Port Cities UK. UK: New Opportunities Fund. Archived from the original on 15 April 2012.
• Caryl Williams. "History Timeline". Old Liverpool. UK. Archived from the original on 2010-01-09.
• "Lancashire", Historical Directories, UK: University of Leicester. Includes digitized directories of Liverpool, various dates
• Digital Public Library of America. Works related to Liverpool, various dates
• "(Liverpool)". Discovering Britain: Walks: North West England. Royal Geographical Society. c. 2013.