The 17th-century origins of watchmaking in south-west Lancashire, F.A. Bailey and T.C Barker; the permanent poor in south-west Lancashire under the old poor law, G.W. Oxley; the attorney and the early capital market in Lancashire, B.L. Anderson; early Liverpool canal controversies, J.R. Harris; the Liverpool campaign against the order in council and the war of 1812, B.H. Tolley; Liverpool shipping in the early 19th century, F. Neal; Liverpool merchants and the cotton trade 1820-1850, D.M. Williams; the African steam ship company, P.N. Davies; the general strike on Merseyside, D.E. Baines and R. Bean.
