Vol 174 (2025)

This year's volume includes six articles and six book reviews. This edition focuses mainly on Lancashire and later historical periods but offers fresh insights into a wide variety of subjects ranging from Liverpool’s ‘new’ police force to a questioning of traditional interpretations of the impact of the Lancashire Cotton Famine. While one article asks what the creation and governance of the model village, Port Sunlight, tells us about Edwardian ideals of self-improvement and welfare, a scheme for a modern garden city in Withington, Manchester did not materialise.

This volume is not available in digital form on our website at present. HSLC members receive a copy of this volume plus online access to this and other recent volumes through Liverpool University Press.

Front matter:
Editorial note
Notes on contributors

ARTICLES

‘The police of Liverpool had been a disgrace’: The ‘Old’ Constables and the ‘New Police’
Nigel Coles

Re-connecting the Classes – Establishing the Victoria Women’s Settlement in North Liverpool, 1898-1910
Roy Guard

The Impact of the Lancashire Cotton Famine on Working Families: New Evidence
Emma Kelso

Withington: Suburban Innovation
Victoria Jolley

Port Sunlight Model Village: Representative of Late Victorian and Early Edwardian Values and Ideals Regarding ‘Self-Improvement’ and Health and Welfare?
Elin Smith

Entering Hardman’s House: Exploring the Legacies of British Imperialism in the Home and Photographs of Edward Chambré Hardman
Ria Lilley

Book Reviews

Report of the Council for the Year 2024

Council and Officers for 2024

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