THE EXTRAORDINARY LOCAL HISTORIES OF CHESHIRE, DERBYSHIRE AND STAFFORDSHIRE

Selected reading list and key sources for research…

Bygone Derbyshire (William Andrews 1892)

The History and Gazetteer of the County of Derby (Thomas Nobel 1833)

The Natural History of Staffordshire (Robert Plot 1686)

The Borough of Stoke on Trent (John Ward, 1843)

Memorials of the Civil War In Cheshire and the Adjacent Counties (Thomas Malborn, 1889)

East Cheshire Past and Present (J.P Earwalker, 1877) 

The History of Cheshire Containing King’s Vale-Royal Entire (John Pool, 1778)

The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester (George Ormerod, 1819)

The Ledger-book of Vale Royal Abbey (Manchester Record Society, 1914)

Domesday Book (Williams and Martin, 2003) 

Polychronicon (Oxford Library, 2000)

Magic in the Cloister (Sophie Page, 2013)

Nixon’s Original Cheshire Prophecy (John Oldmixon, 1838)

A Natural History of Ghosts (Roger Clarke, 2012)

History of the Ancient Parish of Leek (John Sleigh, 1862) 

Collections For A History of Staffordshire (Various, 1893) 

History and Antiquities of Staffordshire (Reverend Stebbing Shaw 1802)

H.G. Wells In The Potteries (David Haden 2017)

Cloven Country (Jeremy Harte, Reaktion Books, 2022)

A large variety of online resources are also used including British History Online, Historic England, various genealogy databases and county records, folklore collections and much more. Most sources are clearly referenced in the text of the feature itself. For specific enquiries please contact Eli directly here.