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Thomas Baines
1806–1881
A Victorian journalist and historian best remembered for writing about Liverpool and Lancashire with the eye of someone deeply involved in civic life. His books blend local detail, politics, and commerce in a way that still gives a lively picture of nineteenth-century northern England.
1 Audiobook
Observations on the Present State of the Affairs of the River Plate
by Thomas Baines
About the author
Born in Leeds in 1806, he was the third son of Edward Baines, the well-known newspaper editor and politician. He later settled in Liverpool, where he worked as editor of the Liverpool Times and became closely connected with Liberal public life in the region.
Alongside journalism, he wrote substantial works of local and regional history. He is especially associated with books on Liverpool and on Lancashire and Cheshire, drawing together politics, trade, and social history in a detailed but readable way.
He died in 1881. Reliable sources confirm his importance as an English journalist and historian, but I could not confirm a suitable portrait image from the pages I checked, so no profile image is included here.