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1. Contact us about Elder Dempster

   Please contact us using the details below if you’d like to find out more about Elder Dempster Lines or the Homeward Bound Project. We welcome enquiries from schools, teachers and community groups.

2. The history of Elder Dempster Lines

   Read more about the history of Elder Dempster Lines - the largest UK shipping group between Western Europe and West Africa from the late-nineteenth century to the 1980s.

3. Interviews and memoirs – Elder Dempster

   As part of the Homeward Bound project we’ve collected 25 oral testimonies from Elder Dempster Line’s seafaring and office staff. Listen to the interviews.

4. Elder Dempster teaching resources

   Expand your knowledge of Elder Dempster with our teaching and learning resources.

5. About the Elder Dempster project

   The Homeward Bound: A Liverpool-West Africa Heritage Project documents the lives and memories of Elder Dempster’s seafaring and office staff. As part of the project, we recorded 25 oral testimonies.

6. Elder Dempster events

   Throughout the year, we hold a number of events relating to Elder Dempster Lines. We'll post details about upcoming events on this page. Read more about the workshops, talks and training we've held in the past.

7. Centre for Collaborative Innovation in Dementia

   The Centre for Collaborative Innovation in Dementia's "living lab" approach places people living with dementia at the centre of the research-to-innovation process.

8. CCSE publications

   The Centre for the Study of Crime, Criminalisation and Social Exclusion's publications.

9. Tobacco

   The Public Health Institute investigates interventions with the aim of reducing tobacco use. We look at the relationship between smoking behaviours and demographics, income, parental smoking, leisure activities and alcohol consumption.

10. Children, Young People and Families Interest Group

    The Children, Young People and Families Interest Group within the Institute for Health Research focuses on improving children's health and wellbeing. Find out more about their research work.