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 59 (2019-20) 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 60 (2020-21) to 64 (2024-25) are available to purchase here. Their contents can be seen here and here.
Number 64 (for 2024-25), a substantial issue with many black and white illustrations and colour plates, has the following contents:-
Obituary: Charles Swann
Dragon Mounds, Thornton Hough: a Place-Name alluding to Wirral’s Prehistoric and Anglo-Saxon Topography
Rowan Patel
Select Documents for Local and Family Historians in the Cheshire Quarter Sessions files, 1571 to 1616: Part Two [with summary for 1607-08]
Paul Booth
Cheshire Cheese and Women without a History, c.1850-1960 45
Peter J. Atkins and Andrew Lamberton
Community, Cholera, Chapel and Children: the History of Chester Royal Infirmary’s Surviving Stained-Glass Windows
Sarah Griffiths
Richard Dutton of Stanthorne Hall: leading Cheshire Nonconformist, Liberal Politician, Independent Scholar and Possible Indirect Inspiration for Miss Havisham
Edward Dutton
Chester Blue Coat School and the Foundling Hospital
Anthony Annakin-Smith
Cheshire’s ‘Sporting Girl’ in the 1920s
Margaret Roberts and Dave Day
Chester’s Historic Plaques
Linda Shuttleworth
In Brief:
Tarvin Parish, 1557-1625: Reformation and Response
Clifford Hargreaves