Articles in this volume feature topics from more recent centuries across the two counties

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Editorial note

A Cheshire memorial brass of 1657: Adam Martindale and Ephraim Elcock
C. B. Phillips

Neston and Parkgate: their links to the slave trade in the mid to late eighteenth century
Anthony Annakin-Smith

John Brockbank of Lancaster: shipbuilder and entrepreneur
Peter Skidmore

The Liverpool masonic rebellion and the Grand Lodge of Wigan
David Harrison

Settlement and Removal in west Cheshire, 1834-71
Mike Handley

The Press, the cornermen and Liverpool’s ‘Tithebarn-street outrage’ of 1874
John E. Archer

Book reviews

Abstracts of articles

Notes on contributors

Council and officers’ reports for 2010

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Cheshire and the crusades - farming in early modern Lancashire - Wirral garrisons in the Civil War - the port of Lancaster - Lake District - Mersey Yacht Club - Calveley church

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Cheshire and the Crusades
Kathryn Hurlock

Family, faith and farming in early modern Lancashire: the Stansfields of Inchfield, Walsden, c.1633–1763
R. E. Stansfield

The garrisons at Hooton and Puddington
Tony Dyson

New light on seamen, ships and trade of the port of Lancaster in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
Peter Skidmore

In search of the picturesque: George Holt in the English Lake District, 1832
John Davies

‘The Royal Mersey Yacht Club: a social history, 1844–1944
Mike Stammers

The evolution of Calveley church in the parish of St Boniface, Bunbury
John Elsworth

Book reviews

Abstracts of articles

Notes on contributors

Council and officers’ reports for 2009

Index

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This volume includes an article on absenteeism at Quarry Bank Mill in the late 18th century

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Editorial note

Whigs, Dissenters and Hanoverian Loyalism in Preston during the Jacobite Rebellions of 1715 and 1745
Mark Parry

Negotiating work: absenteeism at Quarry Bank Mill, Cheshire in 1790
Sarah Peers

Welsh migrants and performance in early nineteenth-century Liverpool
Mike Benbough-Jackson

The Great Boughton Poor Law Union, 1837-71
Mike Handley

The origins of the St Helens Improvement Commission of 1845
Richard Hawes

‘A Plethora of First Class Political Oratory’: the Home Rule by-election in Rossendale, 1892
John Dunleavy

The rood screen of St Helen’s Church, Sefton: its restoration by William Caröe and a clarification of its original date
Mike Stammers

Book reviews

Abstracts of articles

Notes on contributors

Council and officers’ reports for 2008

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The barony of Malpas - 16th century population trends in Lancashire - William Blundell and the 'horned monster' - 19th century political satire in Liverpool - the life of a farmer in the mid-19th century - the Ship Canal in the late 19th century - Lancaster becomes a city - charitable institutions in Macclesfield

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Editorial note

The barony of Malpas in the twelfth century
Peter Cotgreave

Population trends in Lancashire, 1548-1563
John S. Moore

William Blundell and the ‘horned monster’ of Cheshire: a Catholic gentleman’s approach to a medical anomaly
Geoff Baker

Businessmen and benefactors: the Macclesfield silk manufacturers and their support for the town’s charitable institutions, 1750-1900
Sarah Griffiths

Political satire: Nineteenth-century comic histories of Liverpool
John Davies

Hard work but a fair reward: the farming life of John Byram, 1831-1871
Stephen Matthews

Liverpool, Manchester and market power: the Ship Canal and the North West business landscape in the late nineteenth century
Graeme J. Milne

Lancaster becomes a city, 1937
John Beckett

Book Reviews

Abstracts of articles

Notes on Contributors

Council and officers’ reports for 2007

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This image of 'Priestlands' is reproduced in Stephen Matthews article 'Landlord, agent and tenant in later nineteenth-century Cheshire' by kind permission of J. Elsworth

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Editorial note

Palatinate administration and local society in the palatinate of Lancashire under the Lancastrian kings, 1399-1461
A. J. Martinez, Jnr

Ships and port management at Liverpool before the opening of the first dock in 1715
M. K. Stammers

Liverpool under parliament: the anatomy of a civil war garrison, May 1643 to June 1644
Malcolm Gratton

The Chester companies in the seventeenth century
Peter Bolton

‘Honeygreave’ and the Rock House ferry
Tony Dyson

Poverty, deservingness and popular politics: the contested relief of Agnes Braithwaite, 1701-06
Jonathan Healey

John Handforth and Manchester’s first stage-coaches
Dorian Gerhold

Poor Law administration in the Chester Local Act incorporation, 1831-71
Michael D. Handley

Landlord, agent and tenant in later nineteenth-century Cheshire
Stephen Matthews

Book reviews

Abstracts of articles

Notes on contributors

Council and officers’ reports for 2006

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This image of a possible pre-Reformation Easter sepulchre at St Helen's church, Sefton, is from a short paper by M J Stammers in this volume

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The residences and revenues of the bishops of Chester in the Restoration era, 1660–1689
M. C. Freeman

Economic change and possible proto-industrialisation in the parish of Standish in the late seventeenth century: The evidence from wills and inventories, 1671–1680
C. J. Watson

Kind-hearted and good with people – or skilled professionals? Social work training at the University of Liverpool
Pat Starkey

Sensible economy? Sectarian bigotry? The Liverpool Catholic schools questions, 1938–1939
John Davies

A surfeit of Liberals: The Eddisbury by-election of April 1943
D. J. Dutton

A possible Easter sepulchre at St Helen’s church, Sefton
M. J. Stammers

Book Reviews

Abstracts of articles

Notes on contributors

Council and officers’ reports for the year 2005

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This volume includes an article on the overseas trade of the Isle of Man

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Editorial note

The overseas trade of the Isle of Man, 1576-1755
J.R. Dickinson

Irish narratives: Liverpool in the 1930s
John Davies

Three Liverpool doctors and their coronial ambitions: A historical perspective to the medico-legal conflicts surrounding the elections of 1837, 1867 and 1891
G. H. H. Glasgow

John Holt and The general view of the agriculture of the county of Lancaster: An appraisal
John Virgoe

The Cheshire estates of John Tollemache of Peckforton, 1861-1872
Stephen Matthews

A discourse of the warr in Lancashire Its authorship resolved?
J. Malcolm Gratton

Book Reviews

Abstracts of articles

Notes on Contributors

Council and officers’ reports for 2004

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Unusually we have two articles about Macclesfield topics in this volume

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Editorial note

An evangelical clergyman and missionary advocate: The career of the Reverend Melvill Horne, Minister of Christ Church, Macclesfield
Suzanne Schwarz

The Macclesfield horse fair toll book, 1619-1675
Paul Knight

Liverpool guides, 1795-1914
John Davies

Urban space and civic identity in Manchester 1780-1914: Piccadilly Square and the art gallery question
James R. Moore

Book reviews

Abstracts of articles

Notes on contributors

Council and officers’ reports for 2003

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Articles in this volume on a variety of subjects covering topics from both counties and several centuries

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Editorial note

Understanding the Heysham hogback: A tenth-century sculpted stone monument and its context
Thor Ewing

A new painting of Liverpool: A Prospect of Liverpool about 1725
Anthony Tibbles

Thomas Fleetwood and the draining of Martin Mere
John Virgoe

Masters of tidology: The cultivation of the physical sciences in early Victorian Liverpool
Michael S. Reidy

Who’s to pay? Cheshire attitudes towards paying for the cattle plague of 1865-1866
Stephen Matthews

‘Friends of the Union’: Liverpool, Ulster, and Home Rule 1910-1914
Dan Jackson

Thomas Fulljames: An almost-forgotten Gloucestershire architect, and his work in Lancashire and Cheshire
Brian Carne & Martin J. Crossley Evans

Book reviews

Abstracts of articles

Notes on contributors

Council and officers’ reports for 2002

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Some new features added in this volume, including the shorter 'Research notes'

 Front matter:
Editorial note

A ‘Quaker Federation’? The Great Liverpool cotton speculation of 1825 reconsidered 
Nigel Hall

Three Georges and one Richard Holden: The Liverpool tide table makers
Philip L. Woodworth

Disley from chantry to parish: Sources for the history of Anglican chapels
Jan Wood

The structure of the trading community in Liverpool, 1760-1810
Sheryllynne Haggerty

Collecting collectors: The Liverpool Art Club and its exhibitions 1872-1895
Dongho Chun

Research notes 
The 13th and 14th Lords Willoughby of Parham: Typical and untypical members of a Dissenting family
Philip Higson

A hoard of Denarii from Middlewich, Cheshire
David Shotter

Recent finds of Roman coins from Lancashire: Fifth Report
David Shotter

Reviews

Abstracts of articles

Notes on contributors

Neville Carrick (1927-2002) [Obituary]
Michael Power

Council and officers’ reports for 2001

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