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 53 (2013/14) are available on our Past Publications sub-website where you search for subjects and authors of articles.

Number 59 (for 2019-20), a substantial issue of 220 pages with many black and white illustrations and colour plates, is now available.
Its contents are:

-   Obituaries: A.D.M. Phillips and Richard Turner

-   ‘Does One Herison Make a Castle?: an Early Fourteenth-Century Document Relating to Tattenhall, West Cheshire’
       Rachel Swallow and Matthew Thomas

-   'Material Girls: Women Talking About Clothing, Memory and Identity in the Diocese of Chester's Consistory Courts, 1540 - 1640’
       Jennifer McNabb

-   ‘The Lands of the Hunt Family of Thelwall’
       Michael Taylor

-   ‘Mapping The County: William Lloyd Holden in Cheshire 1829 - 1830‘
       Jonathan Pepler

-   ‘Prisoners of War and Their Camps in Cheshire’
       Peter Young

-   ‘A Library in Green Fields: a History of the Cheshire County Training College,Crewe and later Manchester Metropolitan University Cheshire Campus Library Service’
       Sarah Webb and Margaret Roberts

-   In Brief: Five Medieval Cheshire Knights
       Tony Bostock

-   plus several book reviews and notes on the contributors.

To obtain your copy, please print off and complete and return the tear off form below.

The cost of Cheshire History is £9.50 + £2.00 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:

Cheshire Local History Association
c/o Cheshire Archives and Local Studies Service
Duke Street,
Chester, CH1 1RL.


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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.

Cheshire History back numbers are available for purchase.