Vol 158 (2009)

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

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Front matter:
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

Index

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