The Liverpool Underworld

The Liverpool Underworld
Author: Michael Macilwee
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2022-04-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1781388857

A survey of the social and economic conditions and events that gave Liverpool a reputation for being the most crime-ridden place in the country in the nineteenth century.

The Chimney of the World

The Chimney of the World
Author: Stephen Mosley
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1135027773

In this innovative contribution to the field of environmental history, Stephen Mosley explores the devastating human and environmental costs of smoke pollution in the world’s first industrial city.