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

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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

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Abstracts of articles

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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

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Council and officers’ reports for 2009

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

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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

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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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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

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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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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

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Notes on contributors

Council and officers’ reports for 2006

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