Pen and Sword Books: Tracing Your Liverpool Ancestors by Mike Royden

Tracing Your Liverpool Ancestors (4 reviews)

A Guide For Family Historians

Mike Royden
Found in: Family History Books
Series: Tracing your Ancestors
Paperback 272 pages
ISBN: 9781844159901

Published: 18 January 2010

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Tracing Your Liverpool Ancestors provides a fascinating insight into everyday life in the Liverpool area over the past four centuries. Mike Royden introduces readers to the wealth of material available on the city’s history and its people.

In a series of short, informative chapters he describes Liverpool’s history through shipping, manufacturing and trade from the original fishing village to the present cosmopolitan metropolis of today. In each chapter he provides the history of a subject including relevant case studies and any further research he has. He then tells the reader the best places to visit to find information for themselves.

The subjects that Mike covers in the chapters include the living conditions of people, including poverty and the labouring poor, health and the ravages of disease, the influence of religion and migration, education and the traumatic experience of war. He also shows how the lives of Liverpudlians changed over the centuries and how this is reflected in the records that have survived.

Mike Royden is a leading authority of the history of Liverpool. He has been researching and writing for over 30 years and is a popular lecturer on the subject. Mike runs many family history websites and is author of a number of titles such as: Liverpool: Caring for Women, babies in Liverpool- A History of Mill Road Hospital; A History of Liverpool Maternity Hospital, The Women’s Hospital, Liverpool and a biography of Edward Rushton.

Each chapter presents a short history of a particular topic, followed by suggestions for further research and reading. However these are not just lists, but include useful critical comments, enabling readers to judge more... [read full review]

Kay Parrott, British Association for Local History

Mike Royden, a leading authority on the history of Liverpool, describes the city's history from its roots as a fishing village to the cosmopolitan metropolis of today. Appendices provide research advice, lists of archives,... [read full review]

www.familytree.co.uk

Among Liverpool's contemporary local historians Mike Royden holds an honoured place, having taught, researched and written extensively on aspects of the city's history and the lives of its people over the past 25 years. ... [read full review]

Matt Elton, Who Do You Think You Are Magazine

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