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 57 (2017/18) are available on our Past Publications sub-website where you can search for subjects and authors of articles.

Numbers 56 (2016/17) to 62 (2022/23) are available to purchase here. Their contents can be seen here.

Number 62 (for 2022-23), a substantial issue with many black and white illustrations and colour plates, has the following contents:-

Chairman’s Welcome

Editors' Introduction

Obituaries: Janet Dines, Morris Garrett

Select Documents for Local and Family Historians in the Cheshire Quarter Sessions files, 1571to 1616: Part Two 1603 to 1616 (continued)

Paul Booth

Balloons Over Cheshire: the Genesis of Manned Flight

Peter Young

Congleton Tanneries: a Study of some of the Town's Tanyards

David G. Jackson

Chester Politics: Parliamentary Electoral Reform in 1867 and its Effects upon the 1868 Election

Michael Handley

Statesmanship, Tragedy and Love: a Remarkable Tale of Nineteenth-Century Cheshire

Anthony Annakin-Smith

Chester Ladies Play Hockey: the First Fifty Years

James Ormandy

The Enigmatic Beatrice Tunstall: a Forgotten Cheshire Author?

David Hayns

In Brief:-

Surnames: Seeking Backstories from Middlewich

Julie E. Smalley

Recent Work on Cheshire History: a Select Bibliography

.....plus several book reviews and notes on the contributors.

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.