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Today there are eight National Museums Liverpool, together attracting nearly one million visitors:
Liverpool Museum (founded 1851, opened 1860/1)
the Walker (opened 1877)
Lady Lever Art Gallery (opened 1922)
Sudley House (built early 19th century)
Merseyside Maritime Museum (opened 1980)
Museum of Liverpool Life (opened 1993)
HM Customs & Excise National Museum (opened 1994)
The Conservation Centre (opened 1996)
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National Museums Liverpool
Our origins go back to 1851 and the founding of Liverpool Museum.
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The record office holdings are vast - about 12 kilometres of archives dating from the early 12th Century to the present day. Click here to access their web site.
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Web site of the The Cheshire County Council Click here.
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Chetham's Library and The Chetham Society
Chetham's Library was founded in 1653 and is the oldest public library in the English-speaking world. It is an independent charity and remains open to readers and visitors free of charge.
The Chetham Society is the oldest history society in North-West England and was one of the first in Britain. It was founded in Manchester in 1843 by a group of gentlemen, of 'a literary and historical turn', who wanted to promote interest in, and access to, the rich historical source material of the region. The formal object of the Society was therefore to publish 'Remains Historical and Literary connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancashire and Chester', although since the 1870s the literary element has been dropped and the work of the Society has concentrated entirely upon the publication of history.
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The Manchester Museum provides access to about six million items from every continent of the globe. Butterflies and carvings from India; birds and bark-cloth from the Pacific; live frogs and ancient pottery from America; fossils and native art from Australia; mammals and ancient Egyptian craftsmanship from Africa; plants, coins and minerals from Europe; art from past civilisations of the Mediterranean; and beetles, armour and archery from Asia.
The origins of the Museum lie in the great quest for knowledge and improvement in medicine, science and art that has been the hallmark of the world’s first industrial city. This was fuelled by the wealth created by Manchester’s international trade in textiles from the late eighteenth century.
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Lancashire County Museum Service Lancashire County Museum Service looks after more than 150,000 fascinating objects from around the county. These include Natural History, Geology, Furniture, Maritime History, Textile Machinery, Local History, Collections of Childhood and works of art by Lancashire artists. These are housed within seven historic and diverse buildings each with a changing programme of temporary exhibitions and events.
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NWRAC represents the interests of the archive community in Cumbria, Lancashire, Merseyside, Greater Manchester and Cheshire. There are over 40 major archive services in the region with another 100 smaller services and many more archival collections in museums, libraries and other organisations. These archive services are managed by a variety of organisations including local authorities, businesses and academic institutions. Over 100,000 people visit NW archive services each year, making many more enquiries by post, email and telephone.
Click here to visit the NWRAC site.
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The Centre for North-West Regional Studies was founded in 1973. It is widely respected, regionally, nationally and internationally for its programmes, courses, publications and archive.
The objectives of the Centre are to:
. encourage, develop and co-ordinate research related to the North-West of England
. store and disseminate information relevant to research
. develop contacts with learned bodies and members of the professions and the public pursuit of these aims
. organise, teach and supervise in these areas at the relevant undergraduate and postgraduate level.
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Local History
From buildings to legends and from myths to people; discover our local history through tales of our ancestors from all around the UK.
Click here for the legacy web site.
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'Promoting the study of, and interest in, local history within the ancient County Palatine of Chester'
The Association is an independent body whose membership includes organisations and individuals alike.
- It encourages Local History Societies by offering help and advice on how they may be run.
- It meets every three months at locations around the county.
- It publishes the much respected journal "Cheshire History" in December each year.
- It organises the "Cheshire History Day" held on the last Saturday in October.
Click here to visit the web site of the Cheshire Local History Association.
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Under a license from the UK National Archives, O'Quinn Law Library of the University of Houston makes accessible documents from the National Archives. These include long runs of CP40, KB27, E159 and E368 documents that contain material about Cheshire and Lancashire (the common law series includes such material only after the mid-fifteenth century)and CHES14 (Cheshire equity). You can access these documents at The Anglo-American Legal Tradition website.
The Anglo-American Legal Tradition
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The Chester Chronicle has relaunched its Chester Memories blog to include nostalgia and history articles from the Chronicle group of newspapers across Cheshire, North East Wales and North Shropshire.
Click here for the Cheshire Memories Website
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