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Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire The RSLC publishes the texts of historic documents relating to Lancashire and Cheshire

RSLC volume 159 - The Jacobite Prisoners of the Fifteen, edited by Jonathan Oates - is now available! This volume provid...
12/05/2024

RSLC volume 159 - The Jacobite Prisoners of the Fifteen, edited by Jonathan Oates - is now available! This volume provides important new information about the fate of those participants of the Jacobite uprising of 1715 who were taken prisoner after the battle of Preston, and about the make-up of the Jacobite army. It also contains two little-known contemporary Jacobite accounts of the campaign, which shed fresh light on the battle of Preston, and various legal depositions and letters relating to the prisoners.

This volume can be purchased for £35 + p&p: please email Dr Fiona Pogson ([email protected]) to make your order. If you'd like to consider joining the Society, and receiving our annual volumes for a yearly subscription of £20, please see our website www.rslc.org.uk for information

The latest RSLC volume has arrived.
03/05/2024

The latest RSLC volume has arrived.

Here is an extract from a letter written by Ada McGuire while on holiday on the Isle of Man on 23 July 1916:"The news fr...
31/03/2024

Here is an extract from a letter written by Ada McGuire while on holiday on the Isle of Man on 23 July 1916:

"The news from the front continues good but the price to pay is high. Poor Ralph Merry has been killed (did I tell you). Also Mr and Mrs Lees only son. It makes me very anxious. They are waiting for me to go out so I will say goodbye. My teachers gave me a lovely silver tray for my dressing table when I left.
Dearest love
from Ada"

Ralph Merry was one of two brothers from the Merry Family of 63 Manor Road, Liscard. He died whilst fighting with the Liverpool Pals on 1 July 1916, aged 22 (not 20, as Ada claimed). The McGuires had lived on Manor Road, but by this time were living on Cliff Road Wallasey. Ralph's older Brother, Alfred Frithjof Merry (his middle name was Norwegian and came from his mother's family), fought with 6/King's (Liverpool Regiment) and was awarded the Military Cross three times, which, as anyone who knows how hard it was to win that medal will know, is an astonishing achievement. There were hundreds and thousands of such incredibly brave young men from Merseyside during the Great War and, contrary to popular myths, the officers were highly dedicated and led from the front, hence their high casualty rates. This is one of the many insights to be had from the McGuire Family's wartime letters which I am editing for the Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire.

I am editing a volume for the Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - letters written by the McGuire Family of Walla...
31/03/2024

I am editing a volume for the Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - letters written by the McGuire Family of Wallasey during the Great War. Here is an extract from a letter written by Rhoda McGuire on 7 February 1916:

'Bess was telling us about a funny little girl she knows. This child is quite a caution – dances to the flowers in the garden, then makes them a bow and says “You liked it, flowers, didn’t you?” Not long ago her father lost a cheque and had the whole household searching for it. I suppose he was making a nice shindy about it – anyway they heard the child in her room praying that it might be found. It was found just as the little girl was coming downstairs. The father called out the news. They heard the child say “Oh! it is all right God. He’s found it.”'

The collection contains many little stories like this, as well as reflections on the war, its effects on local people and descriptions of the many local families who lost loved ones.

25/03/2024

There's still time to register for our public lecture on Wednesday (27 March): Martin Heale, 'Robin Hood in the Medieval and Early Modern North West', starting at 2pm, in Liverpool Central Library (Meeting Rooms 1-2).

ALL ARE WELCOME! The lecture will also be livestreamed via Zoom, for those who wish to join us online. To register, please contact Diana Dunn ([email protected]) in advance of the meeting, confirming whether you would like to attend in person or online.
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27/02/2024

The following events, organised by our friends at the Historic Society of Lancashire & Cheshire, may be of interest.

Guest lecture (on-line) 21 February 2024
Dr Caroline Pudney, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Chester
‘In Search of Roman Rural Settlement’

The lecture was recorded and will soon be available via a link on the Historic Society’s website: hslc.org.uk

Lecture (on-line for non-members) Liverpool Atheneum, 20 March 2024.
Depending on the length of the AGM the lecture should start around 3pm.
Dr Paul Salveson, Visiting Professor, Universities of Bolton and Huddersfield
‘Lancastrians: Mills, Mines and Minarets: A landmark new history’

We will post a Zoom link for this lecture when it’s available

Mike Stammers Memorial Lecture – in person event - Maritime Museum, Royal
Albert Dock, Liverpool, 1 May 2024, 5.30pm
Tony Tibbles, author and Emeritus Keeper of Slavery History at National Museums, Liverpool
‘Liverpool’s Ship Portrait Artists’

RSLC Public Lecture - all welcome!At 2pm on Wednesday 27 March, in Liverpool Central Library (Meeting Rooms 1-2), we'll ...
15/02/2024

RSLC Public Lecture - all welcome!

At 2pm on Wednesday 27 March, in Liverpool Central Library (Meeting Rooms 1-2), we'll be holding our annual Colin Phillips Memorial Lecture. Professor Martin Heale will be speaking on 'Robin Hood in the Medieval and Early Modern North West'.

Martin Heale is Professor of Late Medieval and Reformation History at the University of Liverpool, and President of the Society. He has published widely on church and society in late medieval and sixteenth-century England. His recent work includes a chapter on piety and anticlericalism in the medieval Robin Hood stories, to be published later this year in a volume entitled _Historians on Robin Hood_, edited by Stephen H. Rigby.

ALL ARE WELCOME! The lecture will also be livestreamed via Zoom, for those who wish to join us online. To register, please contact Diana Dunn ([email protected]) in advance of the meeting, confirming whether you would like to attend in person or online.

Please feel free to share this post with anyone you think might be interested!

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