LJMU Special Collections & Archives would like to welcome and introduce Caitlin Cooper, our new student intern who will be working on the Elder Dempster Captain Morgan (EDCM) collection and project, supervised by ourselves and academic Prof Nick White in the History Department at LJMU.

Caitlin will be continuing the four year project to catalogue and make accessible the papers of Captain James Patrick Morgan, kindly deposited by his widow Joyce Morgan, and supported by the Elder Dempster Pensioner’s Association and Centre for Port and Maritime History. In 2023 a physical exhibition was curated by our previous student interns, and a permanent digital exhibition is available on our Digital Exhibitions site.

So far she’s been incredibly passionate, perceptive, and ready to get to work and we’re very excited to see her conclude the final chapter of this project.

Christopher Olive, Assistant Archivist 2025