Bootle’s first public library

Abstract

Presents a short study, based on primary sources, of the origins in 1884‐1887 of the Public Library in Bootle, Merseyside, now part of the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, but up to 1974 a separate borough, adjacent to Liverpool. Includes references to Liverpool’s own Victorian enthusiasm for public libraries, largely dependent on W.E. Gladstone and Sir James Picton, as well as to the more local generation of interest in such matters by Dr R. Tudor and others. The history is outlined up to the year 1901.

Citation

Glasgow, E. (1998), "Bootle’s first public library", Library Review, Vol. 47 No. 4, pp. 233-237. https://doi.org/10.1108/00242539810212849