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.

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.