Newsletter
Membership includes a regular Newsletter featuring news and information about our Society and region – we welcome your contributions
Our Newsletter comes out three times a year and is sent to members by e mail or post. See below for examples of recent newsletters. We share stories and information of interest to members, reports of our past meetings plus information about upcoming events. The editor is always on the lookout for history news items from across our region – including requests for assistance with projects or reports of exhibitions. If you have something to contribute or an idea for an article please contact us at newsletter@hslc.org.uk
Notice of the Society’s AGM (in person, 20 March 2024); review of Ellis Island: A People’s History by Malgorzata Szejnert; membership fee change; forthcoming events; finding the Society online.
Newsletter 81 (September 2023)
An invitation to join the Society’s Council; map-maker William Holden’s Diaries for 1829 and 1830 reviewed; report on Dr Alan Crosby’s June 2023 lecture reflecting on the Society’s foundation 175 years ago.
Introducing the Society’s new President, Professor R. C. Richardson; reviews of Peter Waller’s new book on British Trolleybus Systems and Peter Clark’s gazetteer, Churchill’s Britain; we celebrate our 175th anniversary
Dr D. Moore asks ‘Is the Liver Bird a Moorcock?’; in ‘Miscreants in the Diocese of Chester’ Dr Pat Cox introduces her exciting new website; a new guide to Local History sources reviewed; HSLC Online.
St James & St Paul, MartonOne of the oldest timber-framed churches in Europe, it was founded in the fourteenth century as a chantry chapel by the Davenport family.