Publications

Cheshire History is the journal of new work relating to the history and archaeology of the ancient and modern county of Cheshire. It is published by the Cheshire Local History Association and appears as a single annual edition. The most recent edition is priced at £9.50. Earlier editions 50p- £5.00.

Latest edition (No.65), content includes: 

The History of Elworth Hall, c.1300-1960 by Richard Vickery; Select Documents for Local and Family Historians in the Cheshire Quarter Sessions files, 1571 to 1616: Part Two by Paul Booth; The Deputy Heralds of Chester by Tony Bostock; Freedom has Summoned her Sons! A Rural Cheshire Parish Responds to the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Malpas 1792-1815 by David Hayns; Neston’s Great ‘Slave’ Mystery by Anthony Annakin-Smith; William Farish: Alcohol Abstainer and Franchise Reformer by Mike Handley; Converting Congleton: the Salvation Army in a South East Cheshire Town by David G. Jackson; ‘Chester’s Historic Plaques’: a Postscript by Linda Shuttleworth; 

The Cheshire Sheaf was a “Notes and Queries” type of publication which ran intermittently from 1878 to 1990. This is a searchable double CD set.

£10.00

Christopher Saxton 1577 - The first map of Cheshire was produced by the Yorkshire surveyor. It was one of 34 county maps that he produced 1574 to 1578. John Speed 1610 - Speed's map of Cheshire was produced for an atlas 'Great Britaine'

£8.00

John Ogilby 1675 - This CD has the eight local maps from his 'Britannia' the first road atlas of England and Wales. Peter Burdett 1777 - Burdett gives us a quantum leap in the mapping of Cheshire. For the first time, the county is accurately drawn.

£8.00

Maps on Flash Drive

Cheshire: 1577 Saxton, 1598 Smith, 1610 Speed, 1675 Ogilby (8 road maps), 1693 Saxton & Lea, 1777 Burdett (4 sheets), 1819 Greenwood (4 sheets), 1829 Swire & Hutchings (4 sheets), 1831 Bryant (4 sheets), 1863 Cruchley.

Chester: 1610 Speed, 1745 De Lavaux, 1789 Hunter.

Dee, Mersey & Wirral: 1689 Collins, 1732 Mackay, 1739-40 Eyes & WIllson, 1770 Hunter, 1772 Boydell, 1837 Boydell & Kitchen.

£15.00 (all on one flash drive)

Chester in the Great War tells the story of a city and its people throughout the long years of the First World War, from the carefree days of Spring 1914 to the solemn tones of the first Remembrance Day in November 1919.

Author: Susan Chambers

£13.00

Recounts the history of the area that now forms the present town of Crewe, from pre-historic times to the present day. Includes new research that reveals details of life in the years before the railways came.

Author: Susan Chambers

£6.00

A booklet which gives a concise but detailed account of the effect of the First World War on life in the area, written by a local author. Illustrated with many photographs from the period.

Author: David Hayns

£3.00

Is Chester an 'historic city' or a 'modern city'; a finely balanced and well managed combination of the two, or an uncomfortable and paranoid victim of a split personality? It's a dilemma highlighted, if not created, by our Victorian forebears.

Author: Peter de Figueiredo & Cyril Morris>

£11.00

An aid to sixteenth and seventeenth century handwriting.

£4.00

Contains large folding map within a forty page explanatory booklet.

Author: F I Dunn

£5.00

A major contribution to the study of the history of Cheshire. Covers such topics as Roman, Anglo-Saxon and medieval Cheshire; Cheshire place names; population; health; religion; rural society; industry; education; transport; urban development.

Author: A D M Phillips and C B Phillips

£10.00

Contains a detailed list of all the places in Cheshire and some bordering townships along with the parish, ward and town, an Ordnance Survey reference number for easy location and the District Council to which they belong.

Author: Cheshire County Council, Information and Records Service

£1.00