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> Livesey Collection
> The Livesey Collection transferred from the British National
> Temperance League in Sheffield in 1987. The collection was
> named in honour of Joseph Livesey of Preston, one of the early
> teetotal pioneers. It is appropriate that the collection should
> return to Preston, known to some as the "Jerusalem of the
> teetotal movement". The focus of the collection is primarily
> temperance and prohibition but the League also gathered
> materials on a wide range of social issues.
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> In 1995 the Library received a grant from the Higher Education
> Funding Council for England which has enabled us to establish
> the Livesey Project to catalogue and more fully exploit the
> collection
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> The collection comprises primarily printed texts and journals
> from the early 1800s through to the 1930s. It includes many
> handbills and tracts used by the temperance movement to promote
> the cause. Manuscript items and official reports also feature
> strongly, as do visual items.
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> For anyone interested in temperance and prohibition, both from
> a contemporary and historical perspective the following sites
> are worth a visit:
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> American prohibition
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> Alcohol and temperance history group
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> Livesey Collection texts
> The collection focuses on the temperance movement of the
> nineteenth and early twentieth century, primarily in Britain
> and "the Empire" but also includes material on the prohibition
> movement in the United States. The history of the early
> movement and its organisations in Britain is extensively
> covered, consequently both Preston and Joseph Livesey feature
> strongly. Biographies and autobiographies of temperance
> workers, both men and women, are also well represented. The
> collection also contains a wide selection of temperance
> fiction, hymnals and reciters.
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> Although the main subject thrust of the collection is
> temperance there are also texts dealing with a wider range of
> issues which exercised the movement. Crime and punishment,
> prison reform and juvenile delinquency all feature in the
> collection. Health issues also concerned the temperance
> movement from its early days and into this century. The
> collection reflects this with many works detailing the
> physiological and psychological effects of alcohol consumption,
> the treatment of inebriates, the effect of alcohol on
> reproductive capacity, etc.
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> Livesey Collection journals
> This area is one of the strongest features of the collection.
> Included are long runs of some of the national temperance
> titles including The British Temperance Advocate, The Alliance
> News and The Temperance Record.
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> There are runs of rarer titles such as Abkari, the journal of
> the Anglo-Indian Temperance Association. Many very localised
> titles are also held, for example, The York Visitor and The
> Bristol Temperance Herald, although these are usually in very
> short runs. Joseph Livesey's journal publications feature
> strongly
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> The journal holdings also reflect the wider ranging nature of
> the collection. Health issues are covered by runs of The
> British Journal of Inebriety and The Medical Temperance Journal
> amongst others. Nineteenth century radical politics is
> represented by short runs of The Black Dwarf and The White
> Dwarf.
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> Livesey Collection handbills and tracts
> Joseph Livesey was a prolific writer, and later, publisher of
> tracts and handbills on temperance issues. The collection
> features a large number of Livesey's writings plus other
> nineteenth century tracts.
>
> The tradition of producing cheap, accessible writing continued
> into the twentieth century and the collection also houses
> handbills from the 1940s and 1950s.
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> Livesey Collection manuscripts
> This part of the collection features the records of both local
> and national organisations. Local records include minutes of
> the Preston Temperance Society from 1887 - 1914 and the Halifax
> Temperance Society from 1909 - 1967.
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> National records include the annual conferences of the British
> Temperance League 1835 - 1940 and the proceedings of the
> Executive/General Committee of the National Temperance League
> 1856 - 1928.
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> A range of pledge books, unfortunately the majority blank, are
> also held, along with the diary of Samuel Sims, an agent of the
> National Temperance League in the 1880s.
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> Livesey Collection visual material
> Visual material within the collection includes individual and
> group photographs of temperance worthies, some as yet
> unidentified.
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> A large number of lantern slides illustrate temperance and
> religious themes with the occasional uplifting personal tale
> for light relief.
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> There is also a wide range of pledge cards [unfilled !]
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> Livesey Project
> In 1995 the Library received a grant from the Higher Education
> Funding Council for England to enable the University to
> conserve and catalogue the archive collections. This funding
> will last until July 1998. Cataloguing is ongoing and in the
> near future catalogue records will become available on the
> University Library catalogue and thus over the Internet.
>
> In addition to cataloguing the collections a portion of the
> grant is being used to preserve some of the more fragile and
> unique items, consequently some items may not be immediately
> available for use.
>
> We are exploring the possibility of linking visual images with
> our catalogue records. This would allow the reproduction of
> contents pages, selected text, illustrations, etc.
>
> If you have any questions about either the Livesey Project or
> the Livesey Collection please contact Jude Boxall or Aidan
> Turner-Bishop.
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> Jude Boxall Tel. 01772 892292
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