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Adam Cree, History Teacher and Researcher
Please direct enquiries to Astley Hall
Chorley, Lancashire PR7 1NP
01257 515151
If you can contribute any further information on Susannah Knight or Chorley's Great War casualties, please do get in touch.
Publications
- 'A British Adventure in the Year of the Texas Centennial' - presentation at the annual conference of the Texas Folklore Society (April 2015)
- Chorley's Faithful Heroine - North West Catholic History XLII (2015) pp 49-66
- From the Humblest to the Greatest - How Susannah Knight took Chorley's Great War to the World (Self published, 2016). Also available on Kindle.
- One Life Remembered René Perez (1889-1915), a French Sales Representative in Warrington - North West Catholic History Journal XLIV (2017) - by Adam Cree and Bérénice Hartwig,
- 'An British Adventure in the Year if the Texas Centennial' in Legends and Life in Texas: Folklore from the Lone Star State, in Stories and Song (University of North Texas Press, 2017) ed. K. Untiedt.
Projects and Exhibitions
- MLA-funded development of educational resources or Astley Hall – 2006Supporting St Mary's School, Euxton, February 2014
- Talk at the AGM for the Friends of Astley Hall, May 2014
- Talk at Chorley Historical and Archaeological Society, June 2014
- WW1 Project with St Laurence’s School, Chorley, July 2014
- WW1 Project with St Peter’s School, Chorley, July 2014
- Festubert Project and Exhibition at Astley Hall by Chorley Schools - and an additional article Chorley Guardian February - June 2015 (skip the survey!)
- Chorley Schools Festubert Exhibition - Chorley Guardian June 2015
- Chorley Schools Festubert Exhibition - Lancashire Evening Post June 2015
- Sensory Garden/Susannah Knight project at Westmorland School, Chorley, June 2015
- WW1 Project with St Joseph’s School, Chorley, July 2015
- WW1 Project with St Laurence’s School, Chorley, July 2015
- WW1 Project with St Laurence’s School, Chorley, July 2016
- 'Focus on fascinating tale of Chorley’s ‘fairy godmother’ Susannah Knight' - Lancashire Evening Post, September 2015
- 'Pals and Pubs' Project, February 2016 to February 2017
- 'Pals and Pubs' Exhibition in the Farmhouse Gallery, Astley Hall - February 2017
- Volunteer Researcher for The Atkinson, Southport, on Moss Side Red Cross Military Hospital Shell Shellshock project
- WW1 Project with St Joseph's School, Chorley, 30 October 2018
- WW1 Project with St Laurence’s School, Chorley, 1 November 2018
- Available for Memorial Albums being displayed to the public 11 November 2018.
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