The
Lancashire and Cheshire
Antiquarian Society
Founded in 1883
The Society
The Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, founded in 1883, actively promotes the study of the history of Lancashire and Cheshire. Its sphere includes archaeology (both traditional and industrial), social history, trade and trades, architecture and the arts, the history of institutions and local government, and the customs and traditions of the two counties. Its range extends from antiquity to the twentieth century. Although the Society is based upon Manchester, its studies and activities embrace the region. Membership is open to all individuals and Societies who are interested in the various historical aspects of the two counties Palatine.
Activities
The Society’s programme, which runs from September to July, consists of lectures, visits and at least one Day School. The lectures are usually held in central Manchester, and these and the Day Schools provide a means of publicising new research or of re-assessing previous knowledge. Recent topics at Day Schools have included the Manchester Ship Canal, the Ancoats area of Manchester, Mrs. Gaskel, and Samuel Bamford.
Visits to exhibitions, libraries, museums, galleries and places of historical, architectural and archaeological interest are arranged regularly, and joint meetings with other Societies are held from time to time.
The Society’s Library
Housed in Manchester Central Reference Library, the Society has an extensive Library relating to the history and antiquities of both counties, containing some unique items. With some exceptions books from its Library are readily available to members for either reference or loan. A library ticket is available on request from the Honorary Secretary. A published catalogue, recently revised, is available from the Honorary Treasurer and Membership Secretary.
Conservation
The Society makes representations concerning listed buildings, conservation areas and major planning applications to the appropriate authorities. It is also represented on the Manchester Areas Historic Buildings Panel and other local and regional organisations.
Application for Membership
To: Mr Graham Salmon
Honorary Treasurer & Membership Secretary
Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society
c/o The Portico Library
57 Mosley Street
Manchester
M2 3HY
Individual Members - £15.00
Joint (Husband and Wife) - £21.00
Institutions - £18.00
Students - £7.00
Cheques should be crossed and made payable to the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society Subscriptions are due annually on the first day of January.
Please note that membership details are held on a database used exclusively for the purposes of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society.
The Transactions
Papers, often based on those presented at lectures, are published in the Society’s Transactions, a refereed journal, which is issued free to all members annually on publication. Since 1883 more than ninety volumes have been published, and back copies of the more recent issues are available for purchase. Details of these are available on request from the Honorary Treasurer and Membership Secretary. Off-prints of selected recently published papers are also available for purchase.
PRINTING AND THE BOOK IN MANCHESTER
****** NEW IN 2005 - MOVING MANCHESTER ******
List of off-prints for sale as at 31 December 2001
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ALLAN |
An eighteenth century Lancashire minister on animal sentience: Richard Dean’s Essay on the future life of brute creatures |
£3.00 |
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BALDWIN |
Entertainments in East Cheshire before 1642 |
£2.00 |
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BINFIELD |
The dynamic of grandeur: Albion Church, Ashton-under-Lyne. |
£2.00 |
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BINFIELD |
A matter of appearances: the Boothroyds and Southport Congregationalism. |
£2.00 |
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BRUMHEAD |
Land tenure in the Royal Forest of Peak in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. |
£3.00 |
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CASS |
The G. R Axon Collection of broadsides. |
£3.00 |
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CASS |
The pace-egg play - a traditional drama in the Lancashire cotton towns. |
£3.00 |
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CASS |
The working class in nineteenth-century Manchester fiction. |
£3.00 |
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CHALONER |
[Memorial essays] William Henry Chaloner 1914-1987. |
£3.00 |
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COLLINS |
‘An eminent bibliophile and man of letters’: James Crossley of Manchester. |
£3.00 |
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COUTIE |
How they lived on Hillgate-a survey of industrial housing in the Hillgate area of Stockport. |
£2.50 |
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DORE |
1642: the coming of the Civil War to Cheshire: conflicting actions and impressions. |
£2.00 |
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EASSON |
Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton: a novel of 1848. |
£2.00 |
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EVANS |
Manchester book trade: a preliminary bibliography. |
£2.00 |
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FIRTH |
Temperance and politics in north-east Lancashire, c.1890-c.1910. |
£1.50 |
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FIRTH |
Women workers and half-time child labour in north-east Lancashire cotton textiles. |
£2.00 |
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FORD |
The Reverend Theophilus Caleb: race, politics and religion in a south-east Lancashire village 1926-32. |
£2.00 |
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FOWLER & WYKE |
Tickling Lancashire’s funny-bone: the gradely cartoons of Sam Fitton. |
£3.00 |
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GARRARD |
The Mayoralty since 1835. |
£2.00 |
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GIBB |
Secondhand bookselling in Manchester: a personal backward glance. |
£2.00 |
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GILES |
‘The perplexed and ill-managed affairs of the Stockport Bank’ 1791-1827. |
£2.50 |
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GILL |
‘Now help, Saynt George’: rare scenes in a wall painting at Astbury. |
£2.00 |
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GLEN |
The Cheshire book trade revisited. |
£1.50 |
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GRATTON & BOOTH |
Sir George Middleton of Leighton: a Lancashire Penruddock? |
£2.00 |
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GRAY |
Tramways past, present and future in the Manchester area. |
£1.50 |
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GREENE |
The 1830 warehouse and the nineteenth century trade
in timber. |
£1.50 |
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HALLAM |
The Pendleton legend, Craggs Farm footprints and Apronfull Hill. |
£1.50 |
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HARNDEN |
The restoration and conversion of Alkrington Hall, Middleton. |
£2.50 |
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HAYTON |
A search for the underclass. |
£3.00 |
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HITCH |
William Cockerill: a Lancashire entrepreneur in Europe. |
£1.00 |
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HORNER |
‘That great fountain of truth, good manners and what not’: competing for the hearts and minds of newspaper readers in Manchester, 1730-60. |
£3.00 |
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ISAAC |
The English provincial book trade to 1800 |
£3.00 |
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JOLLY |
Ethos and regime in juvenile reformatories in Lancashire, c.1854-90. |
£3.00 |
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KIDD |
The industrial city and its pre-industrial past: the Manchester Royal Jubilee Exhibition of 1887. |
£2.50 |
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LOVERSEED |
The ‘Gas Question’ in Marple, 1887: acquisition of the Marple Gas Company by the Marple (Cheshire) Local Board. |
£1.50 |
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MADDISON |
Master masons of the Diocese of Lichfield: a study in fourteenth-century architecture at the time of the Black Death. |
£3.50 |
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MAIDMENT |
The Manchester common reader - Abel Heywood’s ‘Evidence’ and the early Victorian reading public. |
£3.00 |
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MARSH |
Margaret Pilkington. |
£2.50 |
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MATTHEWS |
‘Our suffering county’: Cheshire and the cattle plague of 1866. |
£2.50 |
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MASON |
Manchester in 1645: the effects and social consequences of plague. |
£3.00 |
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MITCHELL |
The book trades in Cheshire. |
£2.00 |
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MORRILL |
Norman Dore: an appreciation. |
£1.50 |
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PARROTT |
Manchester attorneys: occupation, communication and organisation. A study of the profession before 1838. |
£1.50 |
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POWELL |
Towards a history of book-ownership in Manchester. |
£3.00 |
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PREECE |
Mining communities and the Miners’ Welfare Fund in the Lancashire and Yorkshire coalfields. |
£3.00 |
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RAMWELL |
Joseph and James Harrop of Manchester. |
£3.00 |
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RATHBONE |
The lives of the people of Crompton, Lancashire, 1560-1700. |
£3.00 |
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SHEARD |
James Newlands and William Henry Duncan of Liverpool: a Partnership in public health. |
£2.00 |
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SHELSTON |
Family values: Friedrich Engels and Elizabeth Gaskell. |
£2.50 |
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SMITH |
A study of Preston Court Leet records 1653 to 1835. |
£2.50 |
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SMITH & ROSE, eds. |
The memorabilia of Thomas Shaw of Ashton-under-Lyne. |
£2.50 |
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SNAPE |
‘The Surey Imposter’: demonic possession and religious conflict in seventeenth-century Lancashire. |
£2.00 |
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TAYLOR |
Wythenshawe Hall and the Tatton family. |
£3.00 |
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VEENHOFF & SMOLENAARS |
Hugh Goodyear and his papers. |
£2.00 |
All issues from volume 76 (except vols. 78 and 81) are available as follows:
Paperback: vols. 76, 77, 79, 80, 82, 83, 84 each: £5.00 members, £10. 00 non-members
Hardback:
vol. 83 (for 1985)
vol. 85 (for 1988)
vol. 86 (for 1990)
vol. 87 (for 1991)
vol. 88 (for 1992)
vol. 89 (for 1993)
vol. 90 (for 1994)
vol. 91 (for 1995)
vol. 94 (for 1998)
vol. 95 (for 1999)
vol. 96 (for 2000) each: £10.00 members; £15.00 non-members
vol. 92/93 (for 1996/97) [The Church in Cottonopolis]: £15.00 members; £19.50 non-members
Postage:
Please note that all quoted prices are postage extra.
Orders:
All orders should be sent to:
Mr Graham Salmon
Treasurer and membership secretary
Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society
c/o The Portico Library
57 Mosley Street
Manchester M2 3HY