• To put a positive spin on the results of the survey. For example if an area such as the Wirral is not viewed by the majority of people as being ‘Liverpool’, we will celebrate the nature of the city which fosters a strong sense of local identity within its orbit despite its dominant cultural and demographic position.
   
• To create a coherent platform within which the disparate strands of the Liverpool map project can be convincingly tied together. The format of the map should appeal to a wide variety of people with their own views as to what is particularly significant about the city.
   
• To generate debate about the geographic and historic frontiers of the city. This process has already started as in the course of my preparation for this submission, I focused on the Wirral and in looking at the history of the Norse here. I was interested to note historians appear to have disregarded key facts and clues recorded in the early chronicles; evidence which significantly elevates the role played by the early settlers on Merseyside in the creation of England.
  When I started work on this last month I sought to create a presentation which would reflect local culture. However as a result of your brief, I found myself involved in a trail, which could radically revise and even rewrite our map of local history.

Please view my site (published late June 2008) to see my interpretation about what the earliest documented Merseysiders really did, and see the evidence supporting a new thesis which could radically alter perceptions of who were and are.

I would welcome your comments, particularly from local historians associated with the Museum’s raison d’etre..
guy@studioqu.com

(In addition the site has already prompted local debates about placename origins - one due to be published in a local newsletter).