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Occasional Paper 47: Air Raid Precautions in Altrincham, 1936 to 1942 by David Eastwood
This Occasional Paper is based on forty boxes papers recently found in the cellars of the Stamford Estate Office in Altrincham. These papers, which have now been conserved, were concerned with the organisation of Air Raid Precautions in Altrincham. Both Roger, 10th Earl of Stamford, and his agent Mr Robert Rosbotham were very much involved with the organisation of ARP Wardens in Altrincham. It is ...
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Occasional Paper 55 - Portrait of a Georgian Marriage
The life and times of Henrietta Cavendish Bentinck, 5th Countess of Stamford and Warrington, and her family by Ann Nosowska and Kath Rigby ...
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Occasional Paper 56 - A Pauper Lunatic in Macclesfield Asylum: The Terrifying Experience of Alice Petschler by Joanna M Williams
This is the story of an articulate Victorian businesswoman, Alice Petschler of Altrincham and Manchester, and her family, and her frightening experience of Parkside Asylum, Macclesfield in the 1870s. Her story was made public by her friends and led to a campaign to change the law of lunacy. In 1873 the Lunacy Commission issued a damning report on the actions of Altrincham Board of Guardians. There...
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Occasional Paper 64 - Memorable Altrincham Shops
By David Miller. Memories and histories of Altrincham shops from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Do you remember buying cakes from Ankers or the latest records from White and Swales?...
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Old Occupations and Descriptions
McLaughlin Guides...
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ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY YEARS OF HEALTH CARE: The Story of Altrincham General Hospital. Part 2: From the Beginning of the National Health Service in 1948 to 2015
By David Eastwood (with additional material by Jill Groves)...
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Open History 122 Special WW1 edition
Prelude to War: A portrayal of the Liberal Government’s Cabinet manoeuvrings in the twelve day to 4 August 1914; Joseph Evans (an Irish soldier in WW1); The Irish in World War 1; Dear Father... (letters from a soldier to his father); Folkestone and Why History is Important (how Folkestone copied in WW1); Paper Chains from the Western Front: Postcards 1914-1918; Unfinished Business (a convicted m...
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Open History 125, Summer 2013
Newhaven, Sussex, 1837-1887; Hertfordshire's Medical 'Guinea Pigs'; A Yorkshire teacher-training college in the Swinging 60s; What the Open University degree can do for you; report on conference at Farncombe Estate, Worcestershire; Visit to the Gladstone Pottery 16 March 2013...
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Open History 154
Life for Female Prisoners in Brixton Prison 1858-1869: Part 1; The Rise, Fall and Subsequent Resurgence of Cinemas as a Form of Entertainment; The RUR Cup: What’s in a Name?; Was the Period 1945-1989 Really the Age of Protest? Defending Liberty: Anti-Socialist groups in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain; The Shifting and Accommodating Nature of Magic and Superstition Before and After Christ...
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Open History magazine, Autumn/Winter 2005, No.96
Grazing in the High Peak; Habsburg Empire; The Paris Cannon; Thomas Cochrane, Admiral of the Fleet...
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Open History magazine, December 2003, No.89
Visit to Avoncroft; Motivations for Imperialism; Poulton Abbey, Cheshire; Technology and Renaissance Cities; Abyssinian Expedition, 1868...
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Open History magazine, December 2004, No.93
Lancaster and the Slave Trade; Politics and the Zulu War 1878/79...
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Open History magazine, June 2004, No.91
The Lancashire Witches in 1612; A Cycle Ride in the Black Forest, June 1939...
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Open History magazine, June 2005, No.95
Elgar; Christianity in Roman Gloucester; A Tottenham School's Wartime Evacuation; Attorneys in 18th century Southwell...
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Open History magazine, March 2003, No.86
Bombing of Britain WWII; Marple, Cheshire: 18th century sleaze merchant; Inter-war Depression in Great Britain and US; Zimmerman Telegram...
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Open History magazine, March 2004, No.90
Childhood in 1930s Northamptonshire; Social Shaping of Ancient Roman Water Technologies...
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Open History magazine, March 2005, No.94
A Hertfordshire Murder; Great Exhibition of 1851; Escape from Elba; East Sussex Police 1840-1880...
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Open History magazine, September 2003, No.88
An Engine Driver's Diary (1873-1963); Transportation of Criminals; Umployment Poplar and Eastbourne 1919-1929; Women in Armed Forces; A Naval Family...
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Open History magazine, Spring 2006, No.97
In memory of President Allan Fletcher: reprints of articles by Allan Fletcher and two new articles on Samuel Crompton and Plas Rhiew...
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Open History Special Conference Edition 2004 (also No.92)
The Family: The Monastic Family; Family Communication and Migration, sixteenth to twentieth centuries; The Wheable Family...
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Open History Special Conference Edition, 2000
Music as Social History Model; Robert Burns; Blind Drunk to the Blind House; Origins of WWII; New Millennium Walkway and the Ancient and Modern Routes to the Torrs, New Mills, Derbyshire; half Timer: Image and Reality; Has History Lost its Way?; Rise of English Monasticism 1066-1150; History and Religion 2000 Years On; The Most Important Moment of the Twentieth Century; 1000 Years of British Food...
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Open History Special Conference Edition, 2002
Lone Motherhood: The unwed mother in nineteenth century Ringwood (won 1st prize BALH Award 2002); King Zog of Albania; Why Did the Renaissance and the Reformation Fail to Take Root in Spain?; How History is Presented; The Ancient Britons: Kings and Demi Kings of the British Aristocracy...
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Open History Special Conference Edition, 2003
Travel and Transport - A Short History of Flight: Per Ardua and Astra; Reluctant Travellers; London Transport; Wheels and Water...
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Parish Registers
McLaughlin Guide: Eve McLaughlin...
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