To commemorate the bicentenary of the Peterloo Massacre this volume includes two research notes on aspects of the legacy of this momentous event. The cover image is reproduced courtesy of Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives.

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Editorial note
Notes on contributors

RESEARCH NOTES

From Pantomime to Peterloo: ‘Hearts of Oak’ and the Contest for Englishness in Songs of Protest
Alison Morgan

Teaching Peterloo at University: Considering Legacy and Commemorations
Lowri Ann Rees

ARTICLES

The Lost Reputation of William Downham
P.J. Cox

‘A worthy champion for the maintenance of civil and religious liberty’ Dr Robert Halley (1796-1876) and his Lancashire: Its Puritanism and Nonconformity
R.C. Richardson

In Search of Thomas Green and the Authors of Liverpool’s Caxton Press
Nick Foggo

The Poet, the Newspaper Editor, and Working-class Local Literary Culture in Victorian Blackburn
Andrew Hobbs

‘A second Waterloo’: The Claughton Tragedy of 1827 and its Afterlife
Alan G. Crosby

Fearing for Merseyside: Liverpool, its Defences and the French Invasion Scare of 1858-1859
James Crossland

Book Reviews

Council and officers’ reports for 2018

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Topics covered in this volume range across both counties over the centuries. The cover image of ‘Lancaster Castle from churchyard’ is reproduced by kind permission of TuckDB Postcards.

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CONTENTS

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Editorial Note
Notes on contributors

Lancashire and the British Kingdom of Rheged
Andrew Breeze

A ‘Lewd Company’ at Prayer: Plebeian Catholics in Elizabethan Cheshire
Howard Barlow

Who Did Lancaster Castle ‘Belong to’? The Duchy of Lancaster, the County and the Home Office c. 1698–1930
Michael Winstanley

Warrington Academy Invoked and Recalled: Reflections on a Contemporary Manuscript Anthology
David Sekers

Fact vs Fiction: The Early Years of the Liverpool Constabulary Force in Contemporary Literature
N. Foggo

Liverpool Botanic Garden: Early Curators and Gardeners
Eric Greenwood, Steve Lyus, and Ray Lampert

The Interwar Politics of the Liverpool Irish: A Story of God, Class, and National Identity
James R. Evans

HSLC Undergraduate’s Dissertation Prizewinner 2017
“Cheer up a Bit Lunger”: The Function of Dialect Poetry during the Lancashire Cotton Famine
Jack Cottam

Book Reviews

Council and officers’ reports for the year 2017

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This volume of our Journal was produced by our new editor, Bertie Dockerill, it includes the HSLC Master’s Dissertation Prizewinner for 2016 together with a variety of articles, mostly covering topics from modern Lancashire history

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CONTENTS

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Editorial note
Notes on contributors

Some Early Members of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire
P. J. Cox

John Bruen of Stapleford (1560-1625) and his Biographer
R.C. Richardson

‘My Interest Be Your Guide’: Richard Watt (1724-1796), Merchant of Liverpool and Kingston, Jamaica
Anthony Tibbles

John Gray (1812-1881), Lancashire Cotton-mill Owner: Adventures of a Yachtsman, Artist and Entomologist
R.B. Williams

Beyond Her Benny: Reimagining the ‘Street Arab’ in Victorian Liverpool
Lucy Kilfoyle

New Crowds in New Spaces: Railway Excursions for the Working Classes in North West England in the Mid-nineteenth Century
Susan Major

Exploring Sentencing Patterns for Female Drunkenness and Crimes of Violence in Mid-Victorian Lancashire
Craig Stafford

HSLC Master’s Dissertation Prizewinner 2016
‘Militant Liverpool’ as Liverpool Exceptionalism: The Rise, Fall and Character of the City Council, 1983-1987
Jonny Ball

Book Reviews

Council and officers’ reports for the year 2016

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This volume was edited for us on this occasion by Alan Crosby and articles cover the history of both counties from late medieval to modern times

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CONTENTS

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Editorial note
Notes on contributors

The exemption of Chester Abbey: papal power and local consent
Peter McDonald

A tale of two maps: the town plans of Manchester by William Green and Charles Laurent
Terry Wyke and Brian Robson

Liverpool Corporation and the origins of municipal social housing, 1842-1890
Bertie Dockerill

The residential development of Sefton Park, Liverpool, c.1872-c.1900
Joseph Sharples

Working-class women shareholders in mid-nineteenth century Lancashire
Peter Hampson

Technological change and the decline of Britain’s largest steel company: Barrow Haematite, 1864-1918
A.J. Arnold

Bibliographical notes on the dating, numbering, and indexing of Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire
C.B. Phillips

Bridging the Mersey again: the new Mersey crossing and its historical dimension
Pat Cox and Alan G. Crosby

Review of Periodical Literature

Book Reviews

Council and officers’ reports for the year 2015

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This cover image from the volume is of Baffler's Ford on the River Lune

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Editorial note
Notes on contributors

The oaths at Woodchurch, 1643-1644: tensions in civil-war Wirral and its aftermath
Tony Dyson

The appointment of churchwardens in the Archdeaconry of Chester circa 1720. And before?
C. B. Phillips

The introduction of powered dredging on the River Lune
Peter Skidmore

Friend or foe? Internment in Huyton 1940-1941
Pat Starkey

Review article:
Lancashire north of Morecombe Bay in the early modern period (c. 1550-1750): a survey of research published since 1995
James Mawdesley

Research in progress:
Out relief, wages and household income in mid-nineteenth century Lancashire
Andy Gritt and Lewis Darwen

Short research note:
An early fourteenth-century use of the F-word in Cheshire, 1310-11
Paul Booth

Digest of Periodical Literature on Lancashire and Cheshire published in 2014
Lewis Darwen, Andy Gritt, James Mawdesley, Máirtín Ó Catháin, Susan Pomfret, Robert Poole and David Stewart

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Council and officers’ reports for 2014

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The articles in this volume once again cover a wide range of geographical areas and time periods

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Editorial note
Notes on contributors

County History and Civil War: Sir Philip Mainwaring, William Dugdale, and the attempt to publish a History of Cheshire in the 1650s
Fiona Pogson

The Duke of Monmouth’s 1682 progress and political division in the north-west
Geoff Baker

The north-west and the 1798 Rebellion
Máirtín Ó Catháin

The Bloody Code in Cheshire: the Chester Court of Great Sessions 1805-30
John Walliss

Settlement, disease, poverty and conflict: the Irish in Birkenhead, 1841-51
Mike Handley

The Lancashire Boggart Plays: a lost local theatre tradition?
Simon Young

Dreams of helicopter travel in the 1950s and Liverpool’s undeveloped plans for a city centre heliport
Martin Dodge and Richard Brook

Research in Progress:
The Commissioners’ Churches on a Lancashire religious frontier – vital bastions of a nineteenth-century Anglican ‘Counter Reformation’?
William Walker

Research in Progress:
Protest and the state: understanding the Home Office Disturbances Papers
Robert Poole

Book reviews

Council and officers’ reports for 2013

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This sketch of Bebington church in the 14th century comes from volume 49 of our Transactions for 1897

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Editorial note
Notes on contributors

Churchwardens in Cheshire: Bebington parish 1602-1830
P. J. Cox, J. E. Hollinshead, C. M. Nunn, C. B. Phillips

Colonel Moore’s offensive against Wirral, November 1643
Tony Dyson

‘The Tymes Being Soe Hard With Poore People’: poverty and the Economic Crisis of 1672-76 in Lancashire
Jonathan Healey

Landownership, planning and settlement development in south-west Cheshire 1750-2000
Polly Bird

‘Democratic Principles and Aristocratic Tastes’: William Roscoe’s patronage and art collecting
Dongho Chun

‘The Same Power that Scourged us is Now Oppressing You’: the Queen Caroline Affair in north-west England
Ruth Mather

School history and civic education: the Preston Guild Historical Pageant of 1922
Keith Vernon

James Kay, The Moral and Physical Condition of the Working Classes (1832)
Frank Emmett

Research in Progress:
Laudianism in the diocese of Chester: revisiting the episcopate of John Bridgeman
James Mawdesley

Research in Progress:
The Lancashire Place Name Survey: a work in progress
Jennifer S Holt

Book reviews

Council and officers’ reports for 2012

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'A Survey of the County Palatine of Chester by P P Burdett, 1777' reprinted in facsimile with an introduction by J B Harley and P Laxton, occasional series volume 1, published in 1974

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A Survey of the County Palatine of Chester by P P Burdett, 1777 reprinted in facsimile with an introduction by J B Harley and P Laxton

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'Liverpool, the African Slave Trade and Abolition' edited by Roger Anstey and P E H Hair, occasional series volume 2, enlarged edition published in 1989

Front matter:
Preface

Introduction
Roger Anstey and P E H Hair

The Atlantic slave trade and economy of West Africa
Marion Johnson

The slave trade of Bristol with the British mainland colonies in North America 1699-1770
W E Minchinton

Profits in the Liverpool slave trade: the accounts of William Davenport, 1754-1784
David Richardson

Volume and tonnage of the Liverpool slave trade 1772-1807
D P Lamb

Slave mortality on British ships 1791-1797
Herbert S Klein and Stanley L Engerman

The Liverpool-African voyage c. 1790-1807: commercial problems
B K Drake

The historical debate on the abolition of the British slave trade
Roger Anstey

Capitalism and abolition: values and forces in Britain, 1783-1814
Seymour Drescher

The Liverpool abolitionists
F E Sanderson

The slave trade from Lancashire and Cheshire ports outside Liverpool, c. 1750-c. 1790
M M Schofield

Chester slave trading partnerships 1750-1756
M M Schofield

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All the papers in this volume cover Lancashire topics

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Editorial note
Notes on contributors

The British Council in wartime Liverpool: cosmopolitanism, colonialism and the colour bar
John Belchem

Fear and loathing in Liverpool: the IRA’s 1939 bombing campaign on Merseyside
Bryce Evans

Work in Progress: back passages and excreta tubs: improvements to the conservancy system of sanitation in Victorian Lancashire
Geoff Timmins

Recent Postgraduate Work: University of Central Lancashire
Stephen Caunce and Andy Gritt

Book reviews

Council and officers’ reports for 2011

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