An edited form has been commissioned from the author by the editor of the Dictionary of National Biography. The entry for Edward Rushton has recently been published within this huge project to revise the volumes by the Oxford Universtity Press.

Dictionary of National Biography entry:

Edward Rushton (1756-1814) , poet, co-founder of Blind School, Liverpool

'An Overview of the 19th Century Poor Law in Liverpool and its Hinterland - Roots of the Workhouse Infirmaries'

A conference took place in April 1999 at the Liverpool Medical Institution, run jointly by the Liverpool Medical History Society and the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. The subject of the conference was 'The Poor Law, Workhouses and Public Welfare in Liverpool', including my paper on 'An Overview of the 19th Century Poor Law in Liverpool and its Hinterland - Roots of the Workhouse Infirmaries'.
The paper I gave was published in the 2000 Journal of the Liverpool Medical History Society (vol 11).

'The early medical care of women and babies in the late 18th/early 19th century'

Following the April Conference at Liverpool University for the Liverpool Medical History Society ('Wives and Whores in Victorian Liverpool'), where I participated in the programme, the paper I gave was published in the Autumn 1999 Journal of the Liverpool Medical History Society (vol 10).

Caring for Women and Babies in Liverpool
A History of Liverpool Maternity Hospital and The Women's Hospital, Liverpool

A History of Mill Road Hospital

On the formation of the the new NHS Trusts, I was asked to write histories of three of Liverpool's most well known Women's Hospitals, which were due to close to be replaced by the new Liverpool Women's Hospital. Mill Road was the first book which covered its transition from Workhouse Infirmary to post war maternity hospital. (Published in 1993).

Pioneers and Perseverance
A History of the Royal School for the Blind, Liverpool

While still at University, the History Department were approached by The Royal School for the Blind, Liverpool, to compile a pamphlet detailing the history of the School which was to celebrate its Bi-centennial in two years time (ie.1991). As I was specialising in local and landscape history I was offered the project by the department. After producing a detailed catalogue of the 200 year old archive, which was still at the School, I began the research and writing. It turned into a book of original research of 100,000 words on the oldest Blind School of its kind in the world. The book was published in 1991. If you are researching in this field and would like further information, please e-mail me. Copies are still available - contact me for bookshop address.

An Illustrated History of Liverpool

Originally due out in the early 1990's, the first draft was completed, but it was then decided to change the content brief. The work was then redrafted but other projects took over. Some of the removed content appears within the 'local articles' pages on this site (see left hand link).

I hope to redraft and complete this in time for the 800th Anniversary of the Borough of Liverpool in 2007.

Halewood by the 19th Century

Extended from a final year dissertation at Liverpool University (1989). Copies of this with Liverpool Central Library (Local Record Office), Halewood Library, Huyton Library.

The Wirral

In 1988 I was asked by Bernie Carroll to contribute to his forthcoming book on Liverpool (a guide to all aspects of the city, cultural, historical, musical etc.). I covered the Wirral area.

The Roydens of Frankby