This year's volume includes six articles and six book reviews. This edition focuses mainly on Lancashire and later historical periods but offers fresh insights into a wide variety of subjects ranging from Liverpool’s ‘new’ police force to a questioning of traditional interpretations of the impact of the Lancashire Cotton Famine. While one article asks what the creation and governance of the model village, Port Sunlight, tells us about Edwardian ideals of self-improvement and welfare, a scheme for a modern garden city in Withington, Manchester did not materialise.

Special issue marking 170 years since the Preston Lock-Out and Strike, 1853-1854. In addition to a context-providing introduction by the guest editorial team, the volume contains nine articles relating to the Strike, a research note focusing on the the bicentenary of the University of Manchester and nine book reviews.

This year's volume includes seven articles and 18 book reviews. Fresh insights are offered on a wide variety of subjects with the chronology ranging from the early modern period to 1914. There is perhaps more focus on scientific matters than in recent volumes and the spatial focus is on Lancashire. Also included is a retrospective look, fifty years on, at R.C. Richardson's key text, Puritanism in North-West England, by its author.