The Third Series
Publications date from 1949 onwards.
58 Publications
This book provides the full text and translation of the surviving accounts of Bickley (Cheshire), along with an extensive introduction. The accounts provide an insight into the economic and social underpinnings of the political society of Cheshire and are particularly valuable given that most of the other surviving material of this kind is a product of the administration of the earls of Chester, with the Bickley accounts offering a rare insight into other estate management in the shire.
This book provides an edition of a previously unpublished manuscript autobiography of a bookseller who lived and worked in Manchester in the first half of the nineteenth century. It provides a vivid portrait of the hand-to-mouth existence of street sellers and small shopkeepers who in Manchester as elsewhere played a critical role in the book trade, contributing to the dissemination of cheap literature.
This book provides an account of the life and works of Richard Kuerden, a seventeenth-century Lancashire polymath who played an interesting, if perhaps marginal, role at the interface of the two cultures of seventeenth-century intellectual life, as a physician, antiquary, topographer, cartographer and perhaps even alchemist.
This book provides a translation and analysis of the Chester County Court Indictment Roll for the years 1354-1377.
This book describes change on the Hornby Castle estates from about 1580 to the middle of the eighteenth century.
This book provides an edition of the diary of Edward Watkin in his twenties. It describes his public and private life in Manchester in the 1840s when he was busy campaigning for the Anti Corn Law League, arranging soirees for the Athenaeum to which Dickens and Disraeli were invited, and campaigning successfully for three public parks in Manchester.
This book offers a comprehensive account of the life and interests of James Crossley, one of the most important figures in the cultural, social, legal and political life of Manchester in the nineteenth century.
This book offers the first detailed assessment of the life and achievements of Thomas Eccleston of Scarisbrick, near Ormskirk.
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