Cheshire History Journal

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.

Members receive copies of Cheshire History as part of their membership subscription.  The edition they receive is the one published towards the end of the subscription year.

The Editor will be pleased to consider items for inclusion in future issues of Cheshire History.  Notes for contributors are available.

Some back issues are available to purchase.

Numbers 1 (1978) to 58 (2018-19) are available on our Past Publications sub-website where you can search for subjects and authors of articles.

Numbers 57 (2017-18) to 63 (2023-24) are available to purchase here.  Their contents can be seen here.  

Number 63 (for 2023-24), a substantial issue with many black and white illustrations and colour plates, has the following contents:-

 

Chairman’s Introduction

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Editors’ Introduction

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Obituary: Alex Cowan

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Select Documents for Local and Family Historians in the Cheshire Quarter Sessions files, 1571 to 1616: Part Two [with summary for 1606-07]

Paul Booth

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The Comberbach Family in Chester, 1680s to 1780s

Tom Welsh

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A Disputed Will: The Case of Charles Whittingham of Over

Tony Bostock

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John Twemlow of Hatherton: the Legacy of a Fraudster

Jonathan Pepler

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Marple’s First Historian: Joel Wainwright, 1831-1916

Geoff Higgins

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Rural Outposts of the Established Church: Mission Rooms and Halls in South-West Cheshire, 1880s to 1990s

David Hayns

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Edward Cox’s ‘Tumulus’ at Storeton, Wirral

Rowan Patel

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In Brief: 

Sir Marmaduke Langdale’s Road to Rowton Moor and the Phantom Bridge of Boats

Bob Burgess

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Recent Work on Cheshire History: a Select Bibliography

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Book Reviews

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Notes on Contributors

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Copies are available for purchase.

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.

Non-members can purchase a copy - please print off, complete and post the tear-off form below or click here, print and send.

The cost of Cheshire History is £9.50 + £2.50 postage and packing ; postage for overseas will be extra and is variable.

Cheques should be made payable to ‘Cheshire Local History Association’ and sent, with this form, to:

Cheshire Local History Association

c/o Cheshire Archives and Local Studies Service

Duke Street,

Chester, CH1 1RL.

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Cheshire History back numbers are available for purchase.