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 61 (2021/22) are available on our Past Publications sub-website where you can search for subjects and authors of articles. The search results show a link to view or download the full volume.
Numbers 62 (2022/23) to 66 (2026) are available to purchase here. Their contents can be seen here and here.
Number 66 (for 2026), a substantial issue with many black and white illustrations and colour plates, has the following contents:-
The End of the Line: the last Fulleshurst of Crewe Hall
Guy Hirst
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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 October 1608 to August 1609]
Paul Booth
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Chester’s Inner Port
Tom Welsh
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Coal Mining in East Cheshire: Aspects of Social History
Alan Crosby
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Eastham Victorian Pleasure Gardens: a Journey back in Time
David Mottram and David Allan
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A Building through Time: Revisiting the History of Victoria Hall, CH63
Ngozi Ikoku
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In Brief:
A Middle Bronze Age Cremation at Forest Hill Quarry,
Sandiway, Northwich, Cheshire
Ceri Falys and Stacey Smith
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Recent Work on Cheshire History: a Select Bibliography
Book Reviews