) merchants. By comparing the Philadelphia trading community with its British counterpart, Liverpool, it is argued that in 1785 … differently from that of Liverpool. However, further analysis in 1791 and 1805 highlights signs of diversity with important …

The profits of the Liverpool slave trade are infamous, if somewhat more realistically represented in recent literature … than other similar opportunities. This article uses the case study of Liverpool slave traders to investigate the risks … within the slave trade compared to other Atlantic ventures, and how Liverpool merchants managed those risks. It will argue …

The operation of Liverpool public houses by the company Peter Walker & Son during the period 1846 to 1914 was … company. This distinctiveness is related to broader features of the Liverpool context to argue that an institutionalist …

Liverpool was once the second city of the Empire. In the 1960s it created a sound that the world tapped its foot to and … sporting achievements that were the envy of Europe. Following years in the doldrums, Liverpool has, in the last decade …, undergone a dramatic renaissance. It looks and feels different. This rediscovered swagger has given Liverpool the confidence to …

fills in this gap by focusing on the socio-cultural impacts of the 2008 European Capital of Culture, Liverpool on the …

This article analyses the political, economic and social contexts of Liverpool's successful bid to become European … Capital of Culture, 2008. It highlights the juxtaposition in the Liverpool 2008 process of discourses of urban …-branding of Liverpool as ‘The World in One City’ and the threat that the emphasis on culture as economic development poses to …

urban regeneration case from Liverpool: and an urban public health programme from Glasgow. …

, the globally renown football clubs of Liverpool FC and their Anfield stadium and Manchester United and Old Trafford. Three …

/79 social survey in inner Liverpool. The follow up would be used to describe the ways in which peoples' circumstances had … the changes that had taken place in inner Liverpool (if that was where they still lived) and the extent to which they had … 'test the water' for forthcoming policy related research in Liverpool. The results of the pilot study are clear and …