Liverpool: The Rise, Fall and Renaissance of a World Class City
By Ken Pye.
Description
The unique tale of the great port and city of ‘Leverpul’ begins in 1207; it does not even appear in William the Conqueror’s Domesday Book of 1086. Liverpool was created by the belligerent English monarch King John. Within sixty years of the end of the Civil War, Liverpool created the world’s first enclosed, commercial wet dock; eventually there would be docks along 7½ miles of the River Mersey. It rapidly grew into the greatest port and city in the entire British Empire outside London.Nevertheless by 1980, Liverpool’s population had reduced by over half;...
ISBN(s)
144563757X, 9781445637570
