Local history

Liverpool is a city with an extensive and colourful local history, from family history, famous people & landmarks to murder & mystery.

Trying to trace your family tree or the history of a street or a local landmark? The Liverpool Records Office  http://www.liverpool.gov.uk/Leisure_and_culture/Local_history_and_heritage/index.asp
is the place to start. The Liverpool records collect archives and local studies materials which are relevent to and reflect the history of the whole community. These include archives of:

• the City Council and its predecessors
• schools
• churches
•  families
• businesses
• societies   

There are  also books, maps, watercolours and unique photographs to help you find out about the history of your family, house, street, district, famous Liverpool people, landmarks and events.  Extensive collections are held dating from the 13th century to the present & there are exhibitions, talks & tours about the services and collections. 

 Old Mersey Times, http://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/ is website based on old newspaper articles and records of births deaths and marriages from the Mersey area.

The Mersey gateway website http://www.mersey-gateway.org/ has details of Liverpools history as a port city from the slave trade to the second world war.

Liverpool is also home to some of the the finest collections of historical artifacts which are housed in the National Museums Liverpool,which include the Museum of Liverpool Life, and the Maritime museum.

If you would like to read accounts of peoples experiences and memories of life in Liverpool visit the Web of Life website which has accounts written by real people there are memories of Liverpool landmarks, of evacuation and much more.