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    Merseyside

    Jan 11, 2022 4 minutes

    Merseyside, officially brought into being in 1974, encompasses the metropolitan area centred on the banks of the Mersey Estuary. Alongside the city of Liverpool, this includes the boroughs of Knowsley, St Helens, Sefton and Wirral, and takes bites out of historic Lancashire and Cheshire.

    A new website, , will help you quickly get to grips with the wealth of archives and specialist repositories in the region. It details not only the main county and borough collections, but also the likes of the Unilever Archives (), and the collections held by the Archives Centre at the Maritime Museum (). The latter encompass a collection of merchant-shipping records that document

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