Introduction, by J. R. Harris.
The seventeenth-century origins of watchmaking in south-west Lancashire, by F. A. Bailey and T. C. Barker.
The permanent poor in south-west Lancashire under the Old poor law, by G. W. Oxley.
The attorney and the early capital market in Lancashire, by B. L. Anderson.
Early Liverpool canal controversies, by J. R. Harris.
The Liverpool campaign against the Order in Council and the War of 1812, by B. H. Tolley.
Liverpool shipping in the early Nineteenth century, by F. Neal.
Liverpool merchants and the cotton trade, 1820-1850, by D. M. Williams.
The African Steam Ship Company, by P. N. Davies.
The general strike on Merseyside, by D. E. Baines and R. Bean.
