Pamphlets
Pamphlet literature from the 16th-20th centuries, covering British political and economic controversies from the Civil War to the Second World War, with a 19th century collection on Liverpool local history.
Civil War, 1642: Knows.pamph. 446(6)
Pamphlets reveal the great debates, campaigns, and controversies of their age, written polemically to reach a mass audience, and covering all aspects of society, including politics, science and technology, the arts and entertainment. The known personal and family provenance of most of the pamphlet collections at Liverpool adds an extra dimension to their use as a valuable primary resource in research and teaching.
17th to 19th-century pamphlet collections
- English pamphlets 1685-1727
- Knowsley Hall Library
- Lancelyn Green sermons
- Mark Thomson
- Thomas Dawson's Liverpool collections.
20th-century pamphlet collections
- John and Katharine Bruce Glasier socialist campaigns
- Josephine Butler social reform
- J.R. Hobhouse collection on social and economic policies pre-1945
- First World War
- Second World War
- Spanish Civil War
Pamphlets highlights
Proposed British decimal currency, 1854
British 19th Century Pamphlets Online includes pamphlets from the Library of the 14th Earl of Derby at Knowsley Hall, many of them sent by their authors to lobby him as prime minister.
SPEC Knows.pamph. 612(4).