The Liverpool Mercantile Database

A project built by Ollie Beenham and Jack Malone on behalf of Liverpool John Moores University and the University of Liverpool.

The Liverpool Mercantile Database is a relational database incorporating nominative information from a range of sources between the mid-nineteenth century and 1914.

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About the project

The Liverpool Mercantile Database is a relational database incorporating nominative information from a range of sources between the mid-nineteenth century and 1914. The database consists of approximately 350,000 records, of which 170,000 derive directly from five principal sources, including census returns, directories, club and associational records. For more information, click the link below.

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About The Developers

This website is the work of two members of the Liverpool John Moores University Software Engineering Team - Ollie Beenham and Jack Malone. Hosted by LJMU, this project provided the opportunity to work with real-life stakeholders and to attribute our names to a published piece of work. For more information, click the link below.

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