Vol 149 (1999)

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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