Summary information
Study title
Liverpool Trade and Shipping, 1744-1786
Creator
Richardson, D., University of Hull, Department of Economic and Social History
Beedham, K., University of Hull, Department of Economic and Social History
Schofield, M. M., University of Liverpool, Department of Economic and Social History
Study number / PID
2923 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-2923-1 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Not available
Abstract
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.
The aim of these date is to produce a machine-readable edition of the Liverpool Plantation Registers 1744-84, and of the known voyages, masters, shipowners and life histories of the vessels listed therein through to 1786.
Main Topics:
Liverpool overseas trade and shipping; trans-atlantic voyage patterns; slave trade; Liverpool shipowners and merchants; war and its impact on trade and shipping.
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
01/01/1975 - 01/01/1990
Country
England
Time dimension
Time Series
Analysis unit
Ships and ships' voyages
Subnational
Shipping
Ships' voyages
Universe
Liverpool registered ships 1744-86.
Sampling procedure
No sampling (total universe)
Kind of data
Text
Numeric
Data collection mode
Compilation or synthesis of existing material
Funding information
Grant number
B00230039
Grant number
RB00232194
Access
Publisher
UK Data Service
Publication year
1992
Terms of data access
The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.
Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.
Related publications
- Richardson, D. (1991) 'The British slave trade of colonial South Carolina', Slavery and Abolition
- Schoffield, M. and Richardson, D. (1992) Whitehaven and the eighteenth-century British slave trade.
- Wilkins, F. (1999) 'Manx slave traders:: a social history of the Isle of Man's involvement in the Atlantic slave trade'