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Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire

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Formation
  
1848

Legal status
  
Charity

Type
  
Historical Society

Purpose
  
Historical Study and Research

Headquarters
  
Liverpool, United Kingdom

Location
  
Liverpool Central Library

The Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire is a historical society and registered charity. It was founded in 1848 for the purpose of 'collecting, preserving, arranging and publishing such Historical Documents, Antiquities … Specimens of Ancient and Medieval Art, etc. as are connected with the Counties Palatine of Lancaster and Chester…’

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Activities

The society organises lectures and other events, and has also amassed an extensive collection of materials and publications relating to the history and antiquities of both counties. The society became a registered charity (No. 224825) in 1964.

Transactions

The society's journal, the Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, is published annually. The 163rd volume of the Transactions was published in 2014. The current editor of Transactions is Dr Andy Gritt of Nottingham Trent University.

Contents of Volume 163:

  • Fiona Pogson: County history and civil war: Sir Philip Mainwaring, William Dugdale, and the attempt to publish a history of Cheshire in the 1650s
  • Geoff Baker: The Duke of Monmouth’s 1682 Progress and Political Division in the North West
  • Máirtín Ó Catháin: The North West of England and the 1798 Rebellion
  • John Walliss: The Bloody Code in Cheshire: The Cheshire Court of Great Sessions 1805–30
  • Mike Handley: Settlement, Disease, Poverty and Conflict: the Irish in Birkenhead, 1841–51
  • Simon Young: The Lancashire Boggart Plays: A Lost Local Theatre Tradition?
  • Martin Dodge and Richard Brook: Dreams of helicopter travel in the 1950s and Liverpool’s undeveloped plans for a city centre heliport

    • Membership

    Membership is open to all individuals and societies are interested in the history of Lancashire and Cheshire.

    References

    Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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