Cheshire History

Nos 39 - 48: £1.50
No 49: £3.00

plus p&p £1.50 for up to 3 volumes, £2.50 for any number exceeding three to the UK.

[plus p&p £3.25 for up to 3 volumes & £3.75 for any number exceeding three elsewhere]

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No 39: 1999 -2000
The Browne family at Upton by Chester (Trevor Hughes)
The Booth Uprising in Cheshire, 1659 (Paul Anderton)
Smaller Seventeenth Century Houses in Mid Cheshire (J Brian Curzon)
The Evolution and Development of the Turnpike Road in Cheshire (K W L Starkie)
Venus Observed: From Knutsford to Holme Park (David Gillan)
Documenting Decline: Two Playbills of the 1840s from the Theatre Royal, Chester (Jill Edmonds)
An Enigmatic Canon of Chester Cathedral (Allan Fletcher)
The Politics of Sanitary Reform in Early Victorian Macclesfield (Peter McBride)
Enteric Fever in Chester in the 1880s and 1890s (Gerrard Barnes)
A Glimpse of Three Edwardian Schools (Stephen Matthews)

No 40: 2000-2001
Paying for the Invasion (J Brian Curzon)
A Question of Identity: Cheadle Church’s medieval Effigies (Tony Bostock)
Manipulating the Landscape: Richard Wilson and the Dee Valley (Stephen Matthews)
George Frederick Cooke: A Tragedian at Chester (Jill Edmonds)
Tranmere Township in the Nineteenth Century: An Introduction to the Operation of the Tranmere Vestry (Lowrie Charlesworth)
Population Change in Altrincham in the Early Nineteenth Century (Stephen Matthews)
‘Ready-Made’ in Nantwich: John Harding & Son at the Baronia Works (Paul Anderton)
The Nineteenth Century Growth of an Industrial Suburb: Newtown (Dr Derek Brumhead)
The Telephone Comes to Chester (Gerrard Barnes)

No 41: 2001-2002 SOLD OUT

No 42: 2002-2003 SOLD OUT

No 43: 2003-2004 SOLD OUT

No 44: 2004-2005 SOLD OUT

No 45: 2005-2006
‘A very ungrateful and quarrelsome people’ (Susan Chambers)
Thomas Townson, Rector of Malpas, 1752-92 (Gerrard Barnes)
Thomas Townson: the Grand Tour as clerical education (Paul Anderton)
Boundary Stones of the Parish of Backford (David Russell)
Chester Theatre Royal, the lost interior (Jill Edmonds)
The life and work of Thomas Brassey (Doug Haynes)
Thomas Hazlehurst and his family (Peter I Vardy)
A county under siege: foot and mouth disease in Cheshire, 1923-24 (Dr Abigail Woods)
The Rural Home Front during World War Il (David Hayns)
Plus seven book reviews.

No 46: 2006-2007
Llyfer Thomas Wynn: a sixteenth century Roll of Arms. (Robert Colley)
Bidston’s forgotten Dock Scheme (Robert Cooper)
Wicker in the Willows, (J. Brian Curzon,)
The Fenians in Chester in 1867: prelude, fiasco and aftermath (Ronald Durdey)
The Fleetwood family and Marton Grange:an unlikely tercentenary tribute (Tony Foster)
A blackcountryman at Bache Hall (Nigel Lemon)
The Chester Roodee Iron Foundry and Paper Mill (Mike Malley)
Running the Countryside (Stephen Matthews)
Tabley and other Prosecution Associations in Cheshire 1829-47 (Ian Morland)
New research on the Round Tower, Sandiway (Jason Wood)
plus nine book reviews.

No 47: 2007-2008
Saltmaking at Higher and Lower Dirtwich. (George Twigg)
The Travels and Trials of a sixteenth-century Wirral recusant. (Clare Johnson)
Backford’s Memorial Boards: were they painted by a Randle Holme? (John P Hess)
Hidden behind an oaken door? The last years of an ejected minister: George Mainwaring of Malpas. (David Hayns)
An eighteenth-century Cheshire Carrier: Twiss of Alsager. (James Sutton)
Mapping the Past: Tithes and their value in detecting the past. (Tony Bostock)
John Tollemache and his castle. (Ronald Durdey)
The railways of Newtown, New Mills. (derek Brumhead)
The Neston Collieries – birthplace of the Industrial Revolution in Wirral and West Cheshire 1750-1850. (Anthony Annakin-Smith)
‘Six females have been engaged as an experiment …’ The Role of Women in Birkenhead Corporation Transport, 1915 to 1969. The Struggle for Equality in the Workplace in Microcosm. (W. Mark Lloyd)
plus five book reviews.

No 48: 2008-2009
Beyond the Walls: Recent discoveries in the extramural areas of Cheste.r (Peter Carrington)
The Bold Lady revisited: Lady Mary Cholmondeley and her impact on Jacobean Cheshire. (John Hopkins)
A Randle Holme memorial Board in the Parish Church of St. Mary, Pulford. (John Derek Venables)
The Old Glasshouse. (Hazel Warhurst)
The Parish and the Public Highway: local provision and maintenance of roads and bridges in the area of Chester District c. 1500 - 1900. (David hayns)
Croxton Flint Mill and its relationship with the Trent and Mersey Canal. (Mike Walton)
Jophn Romney, artist-engraver (1785-1863. (Tony Foster)
Colonial Conies and Cheshire Clays: a search for a solution. (Stephen Matthews)
Torr Vale Mill and the Cotton Industry on the River Goyt at New Mills. (Derek Brumhead)
The Impact of the Railway on Mollington: a small rural community in Cheshire. Malcolm McIvor).
plus eight book reviews.

No 49: 2009-2010
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 centur. (David Jackson)
Cheshire and the Lysons Brothers: the making of a volume of Magna Brittania. (Peter Warburton)
The Workhouse Children of West Cheshire 1834-1871. (Mike Handley)
Hidden Agenda: the early misfortunes of Willaston Board School. (Nancy Ball)
Vauxhall comes to the Port: the story of the development of Hooton airfied into Vauxhall Motors Ellesmere Port. (Bill Thaker)
plus six book reveiws.

No 50: 2010-2011
A Chance Discovery: Genealogical and other extracts from the Diary of Sarah Savage of Wrenbury Wood for the years 1699-1695. (Edward J. Law)
Thrown into the Verge: Cheshire's Vanishing Pinfolds. (David Hayns)
An Accidental Heiress: The life and times of Anna Maria Hunt of Mollington Hall (1771-1861).(Ann Marie Curtis)
'The Portrait Paintings of Catherine Harrison (1779-1807).(Julie Carroll)
A Complete and Constant Superintendence: The Cheshire Parks and Gardens of Edward Kemp (1817-1891).(Elizabeth Davey)
A Prospect of Cheshire: The agrarian landscape in the era of high farming, circa 1870. (Stephen Matthews)
Man with a Mission:The life and work of William Shaw (1842-1926) of the Mersey Mission to Seamen, Runcorn.(David Sterry and Tony Foster)
plus four book reviews.

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