Table of Contents

• Illustrations
• Tables
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: the new ‘Livercool’
• Preface to the first edition
• Part One: Merseypride
• 1 ’Liverpool’s story is the world’s glory’
• 2 ‘An accent exceedingly rare’: Scouse and the inflexion of class
• Part Two: Irish Liverpool
• 3 Ribbonism, nationalism and the Irish pub
• 4 Charity, ethnicity and the Catholic parish
• 5 Micks on the make on the Mersey
• Part Three: Tory Town
• 6 Protectionism, paternalism and Protestantism: popular Toryism in early Victorian Liverpool
• Part Four: Comparative Perspectives
• 7 Ethnicity, migration and labour history
• 8 ‘Grandes villes’: Liverpool, Lyon and Munich
• Index

About the Author

John Belchem, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Liverpool, is acknowledged as Liverpool’s leading historian, whose many publications include editing the Liverpool 800 book, published on the city’s 800th anniversary. He recently contributed to the Peterloo Massacre bicentenary programme.

Reviews

Belchem is entitled to take pride in this piece of Mersey History.