Port Life, What's the Story?

Sailortowns and Docklands
Where was Sailortown?
What was Sailortown?
What happened in Sailortown?
Sailortown from above
No more Sailortown?
Sailortown Selected Sources

Sailortown Selected Sources

Barnes, William Morris. Rolling Home: When Ships Were Ships and Not Tin Pots. London: Cassell, 1931.

Burton, Valerie. "Boundaries and Identities in the Nineteenth-Century English Port: Sailortown Narratives and Urban Space." In Identities in Space: Contested Terrains in the Western City Since 1850, edited by Simon Gunn and Robert J. Morris, 137-151. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001.

Burton, Valerie. "'Whoring, Drinking Sailors': Reflections on Masculinity from the Labour History of Nineteenth-Century British Shipping." In Working Out Gender: Perspectives from Labour History, edited by Margaret Walsh, 84-101. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999.

Fingard, Judith. Jack in Port: Sailortowns of Eastern Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1982.

Hugill, Stan. Sailortown. London: Routledge & Kegan. Paul, 1967.

M'Culloch, John Ramsay. A Dictionary Practical, Theoretical and Historical of Commerce and Commercial Navigation. Edited by Hugh G. Reid. Revised. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1871.

Styles, John. The Dress of the People: Everyday Fashion in Eighteenth-Century England. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.