Maps and related resources
Liverpool through the centuries
Sensemaking by building in OpenSim.
This is a list of some resources I have found useful in my historical researches. I will hopefully update it on an occasional basis. The entries below were current as of 5th Jan 2019.
Archives
- National Archives
- Cheshire
- JISC Archives Hub
- Knowsley
- Lancashire
- Liverpool
- Digest of Liverpool Municipal Archives
- LJMU archives
- Manchester
- St Helens
- University of Liverpool archives
- University of Manchester archives
- University of Salford archives
Railways
Maps
Liverpool
- Maps via Liverpool1207
- Martin Greaney's maps at Historic Liverpool
- Maps on YO! Liverpool
- Wikimedia various
- Liverpool maps at Harvard (inc. 1766, Gage 1835)
- Eyes 1765 (BL (I want this tab)
- Perry 1769 (BL (I want this tab), Cheapside)
- Eyes 1785 =dead link= alt0, alt1, alt2
- Gore 1790(BL I want this tab); (alt1) ; less detailed
- Horwood 1803 (BL I want this tab; also tweeted version; tweet centred on Ranelagh/Church/Bold St; similar
- Gregory 1806 (Royal Collection)
- Picture of Liverpool 1808
- Faden 1816
- Gore 1817
- Swires 1824 (also at Historic Liverpool)
- Undated, possibly 1825
- Walker 1828
- Gage 1836; Also at Historic Liverpool
- Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 1836
- New Universal Gazeteer 1842
- 1851 OS
- Bradshaw 1853
- Austen 1854
- 1863
- Letts 1883
- Bacon 1891
North-west
UK
- A Vision of Britain
- National Library of Scotland
- Fire insurance maps / Liverpool: Key Map I / Key Map II / Key Map III / Key Map IV
- MAPCO (various)
- Old Maps Online
- Old Maps
- Misc Lancashire maps
- Railmaps Online (UK & Eire)
Images, etc
- Red Rose Collections (Lancashire)
- Cheshire Image Bank
- Britain from Above
- Cambridge air photos
- Cambridge Landscape Histories
- Francis Frith (commercial)
- Liverpool History Society links
- Pastscape =dead link=
- Viewfinder
- Historic England Archive, e.g. Bedford Lemere photographs
- Images of England (listed buildings)
- Lancashire Illustrated (book)
- Lancashire prints (commercial)
- Histopic (commercial)
Railways
Panoramas
- Liverpool, 1725 (pdf)
- Buck's South West Prospect of Liverpoole, 1728, alt1
- South East Prospect of Leverpool taken from the Seacombe boathouse, 1770
- A view of the Town and Harbour of Leverpool, 1770
- View by JT Serres, 1797
- View by James, 1817
- Liverpool, c.1846 (aerial)
- Liverpool, 1847 (aerial, Ackermann)
- Liverpool, 1859 (aerial)
- Liverpool, 1865 (aerial, Jackson & Sulman)
- Liverpool, 1885 (aerial)
- Liverpool, 1886 (aerial) (see also the Chetham's Liverpool of Today for a slightly cleaner, albeit cropped, version)
Aerial panoramas (Ed Farrell)
- Anglican cathedral under construction, 1939
- Bold Street area, 1860s
- Brownlow Hill workhouse, 1908
- Central Liverpool, 1935
- Custom House, 1915
- Hope Street, 1848
- Lime Street, 1823
- Liverpool Castle and the Seven Streets, 1680
- Old Dock, 1735
- Pier Head, 1907
- Vauxhall, 1865
- Waterloo docks, Great Howard St, 1850s
- Ropewalks, Hanover and Church Streets 1769
- Dale St, 1860s, with labels
Herdman and other artists (mainly Liverpool)
- British Museum (WH)
- British Museum (WG but some overlap)
- Liverpool Picturebook
- YO! Liverpool
- Pictorial Relics
- Views in Modern Liverpool
- E & F Beattie
- Brierley (active 1820-30)
General art sites
- Art UK
- Athenaeum (online art, inc non-gallery)
- Europeana
- Watercolour World
- Wikimedia Commons (not just art)
- Yale Center for British Art
Texts
- Archive.org
- Hathi Trust
- Google Books
- Project Gutenberg
- Baines. Liverpool in 1859
- Britton & Brayley (1807). The Beauties of England and Wales
- Brooke. Liverpool as it was during the last quarter of the 18th century
- Butterworth. A Statistical Sketch of the county Palatine of Lancaster (1841)
- Corry (images by Troughton). History of Liverpool etc (1810)
- Enfield. Essay towards a History of Liverpool (pre-1800)
- Customs Letter-books of the Period 1711-1813
- Fraser's Guide to Liverpool & Birkenhead (1855)
- Gregson's Portfolio of Fragments (1824/1869)
- Hope. City of Liverpool (compiled for 1903 Public Health congress)
- Hughes. Liverpool Banks & Bankers (1907)
- Liverpool Memorandum Book (1753)
- Moss. Liverpool Guide (1801)
- Muir. History of Liverpool
- Muir. Bygone Liverpool
- Muir. History of Municipal Government in Liverpool to 1835
- An Old Stager. Liverpool a few years since
- Picton. Memorials of Liverpool Volume 1, Volume 2
- Picton. Architectural History of Liverpool
- Poole. Commerce of Liverpool (1854)
- Port of Liverpool (1920)
- Silliman. Visit to Europe in 1851
- Stranger's Guide to Liverpool (1833)
- Smith's Strangers' Guide to Liverpool (1843)
- Smithers. Commerce, statistics & institutions of Liverpool (1825)
- Stonehouse. Recollections of old Liverpool by a nonagenerian. Pub 1863
- Unknown. Picture of Liverpool (1805)
- Unknown. Picture of Liverpool (1834)
- Unknown. The royal picturesque hand-book of Liverpool (1852)
- Unknown. Liverpool of Today (1888); also at Chetham's
- Wallace. General and descriptive history ... of Liverpool (1796)
- Ward & Lock's Tourist Guide to Liverpool (1881)
Newspapers
Directories
- Gore's Liverpool 1766 (facsimile)
- Gore's Liverpool 1773 (edited)
- Gore's Liverpool 1790 (edited)
- Liverpool Pollbook 1806
- Baines. History, Directory, Gazeteer of the county Palatine of Lancaster (1824)
- Commercial directory inc Liverpool 1818-20
- Gore's Liverpool 1825
- Gore's Liverpool 1827
- Gore's Liverpool 1829
- Pigot 1829
- Liverpool Pollbook 1833
- Gore's Liverpool 1834
- Pigot 1837
- Gore's Liverpool 1853
- Gore's Liverpool 1860
- Green's Liverpool 1870
- Black's Guide to Liverpool & Birkenhead 1871
- Black's Guide to Liverpool etc 1884
Data, esp slavery-related
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