Guide To The Records Of Merseyside Maritime Museum Volume 2

Download or read book Guide to the Records of Merseyside Maritime Museum, Volume 2 written by Dawn Littler and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide follows the Guide to the Records of Merseyside Maritime Museum Volume I (Vol 8 of Research in Maritime History) and covers the remaining collections hosted at the Merseyside Maritime Museum relating to a wide variety of subjects:- merchants; shipbuilding; slavery; emigration; maritime families; maritime charities; seafarers; the Titantic; and the Lusitania. This guide follows the same format as the previous:- a brief historical introduction; a list of main items; an archival code; a datespan; a quantity of records; and a reference to any key printed sources held in the museum’s Reading Room. The subjects are broken down into ten thematic chapters, for ease of navigation.