Liverpool: The making of a licensed city

Victorian Liverpool was a city with a drink problem. A problem that was widely publicised and that few other places could rival. This book examines how drunkenness came to be written into the image that the port city presented to the nation. In a place seemingly so drunken, whose recorded difference from national records seemed so pronounced, and was certainly so proclaimed, the mechanism for controlling the sale of alcohol became a battleground in a fight to stir the city’s civic conscience and escape its terrible reputation. This licensing system may not have been the only way to combat the