Chp 1 – Liverpool up to 1800
Look, just save us both a lot of time and go and read Sir James Picton’s ‘Memorials of Liverpool’. Pretty much every good Liverpool history book of the last hundred years just copies it anyway, often verbatim, because it’s so good ( it really is ). I’ll see you for Chapter 2 when you’re done.
Would this be bad academic practice? Or good sense? Oops, I now see hordes of angry Liverpool historians on the horizons with pitchforks, displeased I’ve let the cat out of the bag…