
Cheshire History is the journal of new work relating to the history and archaeology of the ancient and modern county of Cheshire. It is published by the Cheshire Local History Association and appears as a single annual edition. Back issues are available.
Number 49 (for 2009-10), a substantial issue of 127 pages with many black and white illustrations, is now available.
Its contents are:
'Chester cathedral Library: its origins and recent restoration.'
Derek Nuttall
'The English Longbow and Cheshire Bowmen.'
Bernard Dennis
'Sir Oliver Starkey, Knight of Malta.'
Tony Bostock
'Agriculture in and around Congleton in the Seventeenth Century, with particular reference to dairy farming.'
David Jackson
'Cheshire and the Lysons Brothers: the making of a volume of Magna Brittanica.'
Peter Warburton
'The Workhouse Children of West Cheshire, 1834-1871.'
Mike Handley
'Hidden Agenda: the early misfortunes of Willaston Board School under schoolmaster James Hall.'
Nancy Ball'Vauxhall comes to the Port: the story of the development of Hooton airfield into Vauxhall Motors Ellesmere Port Plant.'
Bill Thacker
To obtain your copy, please print off and complete and return the tear off form below.
The cost of Cheshire History is £6.00 + £1.00 postage and packing ; postage for overseas will be extra and is variable. Cheques should be made payable to ‘Cheshire Local History Association’ and returned, with this form, to:
Back issues are available.
Cheshire Local History Association
c/o Cheshire and Chester Archives and Local Studies Service
Duke Street
Chester, CH1 1RL.
Cheshire History is free to members of the Cheshire Local History Association. Please note that members receive the issue published at the end of the subscription year.
The Editor will be pleased to consider items for inclusion in future issues of Cheshire History.
Cheshire History No. 48 and a number of other back numbers are available for purchase.
Notes for contributors are available.
Vol 49 (2009-2010)
AVAILABLE NOW.
To help in selecting a back number you might be interested in we now have indexes available.
Indexes to all volumes: