Transactions Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire最新文献

{"title":"Council and Officers for 2020","authors":"","doi":"10.3828/transactions.170.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/transactions.170.15","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35557,"journal":{"name":"Transactions Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91172442","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":"A Wirral Location for the Battle of Brunanburh","authors":"Clare Downham","doi":"10.3828/transactions.170.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/transactions.170.5","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000There has been significant local publicity in the North-West relating to the search for the site of the Battle of Brunanburh.1 The purpose of this article is not to review recent metal detector findings, but to explore why the Wirral would have made strategic sense as the location for the conflict.2 To contextualise the discussion, brief consideration is given to the historical events surrounding the battle, the development of narratives about the conflict (including the claim that it took place near the River Humber), and the place-name evidence. It should be noted that many different locations have been put forward for the battle site, and no doubt arguments for alternative locations will continue. However, consideration of geographical factors as well as linguistic and historical evidence make a strong case that this conflict took place in the Wirral and in the vicinity of present-day Bromborough.","PeriodicalId":35557,"journal":{"name":"Transactions Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire","volume":"187 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90276508","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":"Researching War-time Evacuation with Belmont Primary School Children","authors":"G. Skinner, Judith Peel","doi":"10.3828/transactions.170.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/transactions.170.3","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The Lancashire village of Belmont was created at the start of the nineteenth century to house workers for the bleaching and dyeing works built by industrialist Thomas Ryecroft and landowner Rev. Charles Wright. By the 1930s it had been incorporated into Turton Urban District and although very much rural still functioned as an industrial village. The 1939 National Register records that the majority of the population was working in the local bleach works or paper mill with just 10% farmers or workers on the land. It had a tiny school with just 75 pupils, which was more than doubled in size by the arrival of 80 infants from Temple School, Manchester in September 1939. This was Belmont’s quota of Turton’s allocation of 1,600 evacuees. Today the village is technically part of Blackburn with Darwen, and the parish consists of around 300 homes. It has a lively primary school with a good reputation for supporting pupils with disabilities and high-quality work in the Arts.","PeriodicalId":35557,"journal":{"name":"Transactions Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire","volume":"471 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77495997","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":"The Preston Cock, Adultery, Homophobia and the First Petition for Female Suffrage","authors":"J. Belchem","doi":"10.3828/transactions.170.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/transactions.170.7","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Originally spurred by determination to bring the Manchester authorities to justice in the aftermath of the Peterloo massacre, Henry Hunt persisted in seeking to gain election for the popular constituency of Preston. Eventually successful in 1830, he entered parliament pledged to present every petition sent to him, including that from Mary Smith calling for female suffrage. Having provided a rational vindication of the rights of women, her petition descended into a diatribe against married men who indulged in homosexual acts to the despair of their suicidal wives. This was a thinly veiled reference to alleged goings on in the household of the radical journalist William Cobbett. This article seeks to place in context the allegations and subsequent heated controversy by examining the long-term relationship between Hunt and Cobbett, dating back to the early nineteenth century and their mutual conversion from loyalism to radicalism. Already strained by the longstanding animus of Cobbett’s wife towards Hunt on account of his adulterous domestic circumstances, the radical allies were increasingly at odds in the years after Peterloo, divided over political and personal issues in a bewildering and increasingly unrestrained manner. Jealous of Hunt’s electoral success at Preston and furious with his radical condemnation of the Reform Bill, Cobbett inveighed against the ‘Preston Cock’. Hunt responded in kind, repeating allegations soon taken up in Mary Smith’s petition. Historians have simply noted how the petition was greeted with derision, but as this article shows, it merits deeper study. An early milestone on the long journey to secure votes for women, Mary Smith’s petition reveals political, personal and sexual divisions in early nineteenth-century radicalism - over feminism, homosexuality and adultery - attitudes and prejudices which inhibited any decisive pre-Victorian advance beyond manhood suffrage. The article concludes with a postscript noting Hunt’s fall from favour as the Reform Bill was passed, losing his Preston seat in the first election under the new propertied franchise. He died shortly thereafter but was rehabilitated and revered a few years later by the Chartists. His presentation of the first petition for female suffrage has seemingly been lost from history.","PeriodicalId":35557,"journal":{"name":"Transactions Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76259306","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":"Community, Class, and Identity: An Analysis of The Harle Syke Strike, 1915","authors":"J. Southern","doi":"10.3828/transactions.170.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/transactions.170.11","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article analyses the Harle Syke strike, 1915. Although the incident was understood to be significant by contemporary observers, the strike has been overlooked when examining tensions between trade unionism, class, and local autonomy in Lancashire at the time of the Great War. Using a combination of cotton industry records and newspaper archives, the article examines the relationship between Harle Syke and the rest of Lancashire, with specific focus on the local rivalry between the village and its closest neighbour, Burnley. It provides a narrative of the strike, as well as analysis of the dynamics of the relationship between trade unionism and the village. It also examines local community input into industry, local protectionism, and responses to county-wide standardisation and centralisation.","PeriodicalId":35557,"journal":{"name":"Transactions Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74027303","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":"Anglican Nuns Come to Liverpool","authors":"J. Hollinshead, P. Starkey","doi":"10.3828/transactions.170.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/transactions.170.10","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Incorporated into Liverpool as part of the town’s southward expansion during the second half of the nineteenth century, the corner of Upper Parliament Street and Princes Road in Toxteth boasts three places of worship built to cater to the religious needs of those expected to populate the area.1 The sesquicentenary of one of these, St Margaret’s Church, provided an opportunity to examine documents relating to an associated church school and to the rediscovery of an almost-forgotten Church of England sisterhood which managed a local orphanage. Further enquiries uncovered the activities of other sisters working elsewhere in the town.2 This article will trace the arrival and activity of these communities between 1864 and 1900, ask why local historians have shown little interest in them and consider ways in which their foundation was a function of the development of Anglo-Catholicism in the city and intersected with the growth of opportunities for women.","PeriodicalId":35557,"journal":{"name":"Transactions Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire","volume":"335 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78590052","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":"The Memoir of Florence Garstang (1870-1941): Honour, Injustice, and Gendered Sacrifice in an Upwardly Mobile Blackburn Family","authors":"Penny Bayer","doi":"10.3828/transactions.170.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/transactions.170.9","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article introduces the previously unexamined Blackburn memoir of Florence Garstang (1870-1941). It contributes to women’s history by providing her response to injustices in the Blackburn cotton riots and to a gendered injustice that marked her own life. It reveals a creative, precariously upwardly-mobile Blackburn family, whose sons had unusually successful careers, whilst Florence became women’s editor on the Blackburn Standard. It shows her close relationship with her father, Dr Walter Garstang (1832-1899), rooted in values of self- and mutual improvement, continual learning, pride in local traditions and pleasure in books and the local newspaper culture. The article builds on Andrew Hobbs’ work by providing a previously unknown case study of a female participant in Blackburn newspaper culture. Dr Garstang’s work as a Blackburn Poor Law medical officer and in private practice is discussed as the context in which he asked Florence to sacrifice her Oxford dream.","PeriodicalId":35557,"journal":{"name":"Transactions Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire","volume":"74 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90564910","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":"Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire: Volume 170, Issue 1","authors":"Cjtitas AT Wilderspool","doi":"10.3828/transactions.2021.issue-170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/transactions.2021.issue-170","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35557,"journal":{"name":"Transactions Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42083060","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 and the New Liberalism: A Half-century Retrospective","authors":"Marc Collinson","doi":"10.3828/transactions.170.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/transactions.170.4","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article reflects on the significance of P.F. Clarke’s seminal Lancashire and the New Liberalism. It considers the book’s influence on academic debates over the ‘franchise factor’ in Labour’s displacement of the Liberal party, its influence on how we perceive Lancashire as an historical case study, and how it shaped subsequent interpretations of British political history. This short article is hopefully the first in a new subcategory of retrospective essays for Transactions. These will reflect on a significant text affecting the historical study of Lancashire and Cheshire. Authors will draw out the key themes of the individual work and discuss their significance on subsequent historiographical debate and methodological practice.1","PeriodicalId":35557,"journal":{"name":"Transactions Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire","volume":"2012 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86363941","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 first Labour MP’: The Untold Story of the Edge Hill By-election of March 1923","authors":"P. Nuttall","doi":"10.3828/transactions.170.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/transactions.170.12","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000A by-election of notable significance took place in Liverpool’s Edge Hill Division in March 1923. The election is of historical importance because it marked the moment when the Labour Party won its first parliamentary seat in Liverpool. It is surprising therefore that the event has not received more assessment, especially as Liverpool now is considered to be a Labour stronghold. The by-election came about in peculiar circumstances, with the sitting Conservative MP being effectively retired by the Prime Minister, Andrew Bonar Law. Subsequently, a candidate, who had no links to Liverpool, was foisted on a reluctant divisional party. By comparison, the Labour Party was more organised, but they were certainly not confident about winning the seat, especially as the Conservatives had a majority of over four-thousand. Although the Labour Party was still relatively weak in the city, the Conservative Party was not the well-oiled election winning machine of yesteryear. The by-election was therefore by no means a forgone conclusion. The by-election campaign, which was fought over a fortnight, was therefore an intense affair. With the Government’s proposed abolition of rent controls, housing was the principal issue, which allowed the Labour Party to capitalise on the fears of the Edge Hill residents. This article is the first an extensive analysis of this historical by-election. It examines the selection of the candidates, and both their qualities and inadequacies. It also analyses the campaign and the aftermath, whilst placing the result in the wider context of both local and national politics.","PeriodicalId":35557,"journal":{"name":"Transactions Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89876515","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}