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 60 (2020/21) 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 61 (2021/22) to 65 (2025) are available to purchase here. Their contents can be seen here and here.
Number 65 (for 2025), a substantial issue with many black and white illustrations and colour plates, has the following contents:-
The History of Elworth Hall, c.1300-1960
Richard Vickery
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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 April to July 1608]
Paul Booth
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The Deputy Heralds of Chester
Tony Bostock
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Freedom has Summoned her Sons! A Rural Cheshire Parish Responds to the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Malpas 1792-1815
David Hayns
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Neston’s Great ‘Slave’ Mystery
Anthony Annakin-Smith
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William Farish: Alcohol Abstainer and Franchise Reformer
Mike Handley
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Converting Congleton: the Salvation Army in a South East Cheshire Town
David G. Jackson
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In Brief:
‘Chester’s Historic Plaques’: a Postscript
Linda Shuttleworth
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Recent Work on Cheshire History: a Select Bibliography
Book Reviews