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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Editorial note

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

Index

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

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Front matter:
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

Index

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Unusually we have two articles about Macclesfield topics in this volume

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Front matter:
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

Index

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

Front matter:
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

Index

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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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Articles on the Irish and Scots communities on Merseyside together with estate tenants in south-west Lancashire, cholera in Wallasey, the Woodchurch controversy and Cheshire Presbyterianism in the 1650s plus a note on two Celtic names in Lancashire

Front matter:
List of illustrations
Editorial note
List of abbreviations

The Celtic names of Dinckley and Sankey in Lancashire
Andrew Breeze

Henry Newcome and his circle: Presbyterianism in south-east Cheshire in the 1650s
Catherine Nunn

‘For want of reparations’: tenants and the built environment on the estates of south-west Lancashire, 1750-1850
Andrew Gritt

Cholera and public health reform in nineteenth-century Wallasey
Geoffrey Gill

The Irish Flood: famine, philanthropy, and the emergence of duelling Liverpool Catholic identities, 1845-1865
Ryan Dye

The expatriate Scots community on Merseyside
Alasdair Munro and Duncan Sim

The Woodchurch controversy, 1944
Lilian Potter

Notes on contributors

Reviews

Professor Paul E. H. Hair [Obituary]
M J Power

Council and officers’ reports for 2000

Index

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Alice Spencer, Countess Dowager of Derby - Pennine 'Parish Gentry' - Port of Liverpool - George Canning - Liverpool Cotton Market - Cheshire Migrants to Australia - Irish in Ashton-under-Lyne

Alice Spencer, Countess Dowager of Derby – Pennine ‘Parish Gentry’ – Port of Liverpool – George Canning – Liverpool Cotton Market – Cheshire Migrants to Australia – Irish in Ashton-under-Lyne

Front matter
List of illustrations
Editorial note
List of abbreviations

The widowhood of Alice Spencer, countess dowager of Derby, 1594-1636
Katharine Walker

Accumulation and aspirations among the ‘parish gentry’: economic strategies and social identity in a Pennine family, 1650-1780
H. R. French

Creating a port: Liverpool 1695-1715
Michael Power

‘The pride of my publick life’: George Canning and the representation of Liverpool, 1812-1823
Stephen M. Lee

The Liverpool cotton market: Britain’s first futures market
Nigel Hall

‘This is truly the golden harvest’: personal accounts of Cheshire migrants to Australia, c. 1852-1860
Suzanne Schwarz

The Irish in Ashton-under-Lyne in the 1860s
Daniel Osgood

Reviews

Council and officers’ reports for 1999

Index

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The Roman North-West - Tudor and Stuart Stockport - River Alt - Peterloo Massacre - Urban Water Supply in Victorian Bolton - Irish Nationalist and Labour politics in Liverpool

The Roman North-West – Tudor and Stuart Stockport –  River Alt – Peterloo Massacre – Urban Water Supply in Victorian Bolton – Irish Nationalist and Labour politics in Liverpool

Front matter
List of illustrations
Editorial note
List of abbreviations

Roman north-west England: the process of annexation
David Shotter

‘Lord of the towne’: Urban identity and culture in later Tudor and Stuart Stockport
C. B. Phillips

Watercourse management and flood prevention in the Alt level, Lancashire, 1589-1779
Alison Maddock

The John Lees inquest of 1819 and the Peterloo Massacre
G. H. H.  Glasgow

The politics of water in early and mid-Victorian Britain: the experience of Bolton
John Hassan and Peter Taylor

‘A stormy political career’: P. J. Kelly and Irish Nationalist and Labour politics in Liverpool, 1891-1936
Sam Davies

The Celtic names of Cabus, Cuerden, and Wilpshire in Lancashire
Andrew Breeze

Three Byzantine coins found near the north Wirral coast in Merseyside
Robert A. Philpott

Notes on the Contributors

Reviews

Council and officers’ reports for 1998

Index

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The 150th anniversary of the foundation of the Society was marked by a specially-commissioned series of six lectures, reproduced in this volume

The 150th anniversary of the foundation of the Society was marked by a specially-commissioned series of six lectures, reproduced in this volume

Front matter
List of illustrations
Editorial note
List of abbreviations

Liverpool in 1848: image, identity and issues
John Belchem

Liverpool and Africa in the nineteenth century: the continuing connection
Martin Lynn

The cultural identity of Liverpool, 1790-1850: the early learned societies
Arline Wilson

Provincial internationalism: contemporary foreign art in nineteenth-century Liverpool and Manchester
Edward Morris

‘Local history’ and the culture of the middle classes in north-west England, c1840-1900
Alan J. Kidd

Clio, culture and the city: historical societies in their nineteenth-century urban context
Michael E. Rose

Notes on the Contributors

Reviews

Council and officers’ reports for 1997

Index

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Braddyll family of Whalley - Lord Willoughby of Parham - The Earle Collection - WW2 and Bolton - Recent Work on Lancashire and Cheshire - Paintings of Liverpool - Blackburn Nonconformity

Braddyll family of Whalley – Lord Willoughby of Parham – The Earle Collection – WW2 and Bolton – Recent Work on Lancashire and Cheshire – Paintings of Liverpool – Blackburn Nonconformity

Front matter
List of illustrations
Editorial note
List of abbreviations

The Book of Hours of the Braddyll family of Whalley Abbey (University of Leeds, Brotherton MS 15)
Michael G. Brennan

Hugh, 12th Lord Willoughby of Parham, a leading Lancashire dissenter at and after the Revolution of 1688-9
Philip Higson

Wedgwood and Bentley in Liverpool and the north-west
Lionel Burman

The Earle collection: records of a Liverpool family of merchants and shipowners
Dawn Littler

How war came to Bolton, 1938-1940
G. J. Bryant

Recent work on the history of Lancashire and Cheshire: the early modern period
Richard Hoyle

Recent work on the history of Lancashire and Cheshire since the late eighteenth century
John K. Walton

Recent finds of Roman coins in Lancashire: fourth report
David Shotter

Two paintings of Liverpool in 1680: a reassessment
Anthony Tibbles

Blackburn nonconformity: an earlier episode
P. E. H. Hair

Notes on the Contributors

 Reviews

Council and officers’ reports for 1996

Index

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