The lost dock of Liverpool
A Time Team Special
First screened 21 April 2008
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This is a brief selection of websites dealing with the history of Liverpool and its docks. There are, of course, many more.Channel 4 is not responsible for the content of third-party sites.
Liverpool History Online Project
www.lmu.livjm.ac.uk/lhol
The Liverpool History Online project has been funded by the European Regional Development Fund among others. It covers the history, geography and culture of the city and includes a huge range of images, maps and other resources. It includes a history of the Liverpool docks.
International Slavery Museum
www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/
ism/slavery/liverpool.asp
Liverpool's International Slavery Museum's website contains a wide range of resources about slavery worldwide and Liverpool's role in it. It also has an extensive set of links to other websites dealing with the subject.
Trading Places: A history of Liverpool docks
www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/docks
Interactive topics and timeline covering the history of the docks of Liverpool and Birkenhead.
Liverpool 2007: An online history
www.liverpool2007.org.uk
Website set up to provide easy access to Liverpool's history as part of its 800th anniversary in 2007.
The History of Liverpool by Dorothy Wane
http://members.fortunecity.com/
mike_mcnally/history.html
Written at Christmas 1910, and well illustrated by the website owner with old postcards and other images, this is a fascinating account of Liverpool's history as seen by one woman a century ago.
Liverpool's ancient dock preserved forever in a timewarp
www.liverpoolpsda.co.uk/Press/PressCuttings/
07-2007/timewarp.htm
Press release by the Paradise Project developers on the site of Liverpool's first dock.