{"title":"Puritanism in North-West England","authors":"R. Richardson","doi":"10.7765/9781526169693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526169693","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35557,"journal":{"name":"Transactions Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43551081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Three Cheers for the Pirates! The History of Merseyside Smugglers and Wreckers: Realities, Myths, and Legacies","authors":"James L. Houghton","doi":"10.3828/transactions.171.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/transactions.171.10","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Within recent years, Merseyside has adopted piratical imagery as part of its local identity. This adoption reprises Merseyside’s smuggling and wrecking heritage as smugglers and wreckers have been transformed into myths that have been assimilated into modern understandings of historical piracy. This modern interpretation of piracy has transformed the historical pirate into an anti-authoritarian symbol, stripped of its problematic criminal aspects. Pirates have become embedded within Merseyside’s social consciousness through cultural events. This article examines into how and why Merseyside has used its smuggling and wrecking past to facilitate a piratical identity. Drawing on the reality of the region’s history of smuggling and wrecking realities, this study assesses how these activities have been regarded since their heydays. Prevalent societal values of the period determine what is deemed of cultural importance, with Merseyside’s smugglers and wreckers enjoying dizzying heights today after having almost falling into obscurity in the twentieth century.","PeriodicalId":35557,"journal":{"name":"Transactions Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45325003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lancashire’s Pioneering Impressionists: The Manchester School of Painters and its Critics, 1868-1914","authors":"James Moore, C. Tite","doi":"10.3828/transactions.171.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/transactions.171.7","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The significance of the Manchester School of Painters has been neglected by both art historians and scholars of this region. This article explores the contribution of these artists to the history of Impressionism in Britain and demonstrates how a young group of Mancunians brought French modernism to Lancashire art exhibitions and galleries some time before it was common in London. They struggled with the local artistic establishment, local critics gave them a mixed reception, and yet they ultimately achieved recognition in the capital, with their paintings hanging in the same galleries as the work of their more celebrated French counterparts Corot, Degas and Boudin. While the Manchester School was short-lived, some of its painters continued to experiment with Impressionist techniques and influenced regional art well into the twentieth century. Their techniques were taken up by Adolphe Valette and the style of their urban subject matter was later replicated in the work of both Valette and L.S. Lowry.","PeriodicalId":35557,"journal":{"name":"Transactions Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49430084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"City of the Plague: Victorian Liverpool’s Response to Epidemic","authors":"M. Riley","doi":"10.3828/transactions.171.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/transactions.171.8","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Conscious of its reputation as Britain’s unhealthiest town, the Corporation of Liverpool, in the mid-nineteenth century, developed a long-term strategy to combat the factors that allowed disease to flourish. Typhus, which periodically reached epidemic proportions, had been an underlying factor behind much public health reform, yet by the 1860s, it tended to be viewed with some degree of inevitability. The re-emergence of cholera in 1866 after a gap of twelve years triggered more urgent and immediate interventions. Perceived as a potentially catastrophic ‘alien’ invader, its outbreak in Liverpool was traceable to European emigrants in transit. Just as Irish immigrants had been scapegoated for importing typhus, the ‘Germans’ were identified as a source of dirt, degradation and disease. Despite the alarm generated by cholera, its sporadic incidence was a disincentive to the building of a permanent infrastructure with sufficient capacity to cope. Isolation hospitals, quarantine facilities, and nursing care needed to be constructed, commandeered, or conjured up on an ad hoc basis, bringing into focus the practical role of parochial authorities in the health of the town.","PeriodicalId":35557,"journal":{"name":"Transactions Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45852326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decolonisation, Diversification, and Decline: Liverpool Shipping and the End of Empire","authors":"N. White","doi":"10.3828/transactions.171.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/transactions.171.9","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The publishing and curating career of Mike Stammers demonstrated Liverpool’s multifarious colonial connections. The port city’s overseas trade remained heavily oriented towards markets in the Global South into the era of decolonisation after the Second World War. The non-European trade bias was reflected in the cluster of world-renowned imperial shipping lines which continued to be based on Merseyside. Drawing upon the rich archive collections of the Merseyside Maritime Museum, as well as company histories often written by ex-employees or authors with privileged access to business records, this article explores Liverpool’s experience of decolonisation. It analyses how Liverpool’s maritime cluster was affected by the ending of the European empires, how Liverpool shipowners reacted to decolonisation through diversification, and how the combination of decolonisation and diversification led to the decline of Merseyside’s overseas shipping sector by the late-twentieth century.","PeriodicalId":35557,"journal":{"name":"Transactions Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46414726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Administration of Justice in Victorian Cheshire, 1840-1890: A Quantitative Survey","authors":"John Walliss","doi":"10.3828/transactions.171.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/transactions.171.5","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article presents a quantitative survey of the administration of justice in Cheshire between 1840 and 1890. Drawing on a sample of 33,000 cases from assizes and quarter sessions across the county, it explores broad patterns in committals, prosecutions, and sentencing over the fifty-year period. To this end, the article is structured to follow defendants’ route through the criminal justice process; from committal through prosecution to sentencing. The final section of the article thereafter explores the differing patterns of each as it pertained to the sex of the accused.","PeriodicalId":35557,"journal":{"name":"Transactions Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47035632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Liverpool’s Renewed Liberalism: Britain’s Third Party in Post-war Merseyside Politics","authors":"Marc Collinson","doi":"10.3828/transactions.171.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/transactions.171.4","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article disseminates the initial findings of a project examining political change and party politics in post-war Liverpool. Based on a scoping study funded by a HSLC Research Grant, it explores the exceptionalism of the post-war revival of Liberal party support in Liverpool following 1945, Liverpool, before outlining the initial evidence gleaned from a survey of extant party records in regional and institutional repositories. Finally, it advances an initial conclusion of the project, suggesting an alternative interpretation building on scholarship associated with so-called ‘new political history’. This encourages a more pluralist understanding of Merseyside political history, avoiding assumptions of a pre-1945 Conservative bastion or a post-war Labour city.","PeriodicalId":35557,"journal":{"name":"Transactions Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43252204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Attitudes to Male Homosexuality in Late Victorian England: Charles Freston, a Case Study","authors":"A. Tibbles","doi":"10.3828/transactions.171.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/transactions.171.6","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Victorian attitudes to sex were complex and often contradictory, and this is particularly true of sexual activities between men. As such encounters were regarded as immoral and were illegal, they were almost always clandestine and secretive and have left relatively little historical record. It is, therefore, difficult to judge the extent of such activities or to gauge their impact, particularly on a personal level. Prosecutions were, in fact, rare and both official records and newspaper reports generally provide minimal detail, often only a name and outcome, sometimes the defendant’s age and occupation but little that allows examination of the wider consequences and impact.\u0000This article examines the case of Charles Freston, a butler from Speke, Lancashire, who was tried and convicted of buggery in 1884. Unusually, by using a combination of sources, it is possible to establish comprehensive biographical details for those involved in, or affected by, the incident and to follow through the consequences for them all. It allows us to see beyond the sterile official record and come to a fuller understanding of the wider implications and nature of same sex activities in the late nineteenth century.","PeriodicalId":35557,"journal":{"name":"Transactions Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41604352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Retrospective Thirty-five Years On: John K. Walton, Lancashire: A Social History 1558-1939 (Manchester University Press, 1987)","authors":"A. Crosby","doi":"10.3828/transactions.171.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/transactions.171.3","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000John Walton’s book on the social history of Lancashire from the accession of Elizabeth I to the outbreak of the Second World War appeared 35 years ago. It was a remarkable but not entirely uncontroversial achievement, large in scope and scale, and very personal in its character and approach. Curiously, it was not reviewed in this journal. Now, three and half decades later, this paper offers a retrospective assessment of a volume which was described by one reviewer at the time as ‘the best history of Lancashire to be written so far’.","PeriodicalId":35557,"journal":{"name":"Transactions Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44656870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}