Cheshire
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OXFORD COUNTY HISTORIESCHESHIRE BY CHARLES E. KELSEY, M.A.WITH TEN MAPS AND FORTY-NINE ILLUSTRATIONSPREFACEThe aim of the present volume in the Oxford Series of County Histories for Schools is to assist the study of the progress of the English people by an examination of local antiquities, visits to ancient sites and buildings, and suggestions of big national movements from local incident. An attempt is made to foster the powers of observation in children by showing them how to connect various styles of architecture, for instance, with successive stages in the story of their county, and to con...
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- OXFORD COUNTY HISTORIES CHESHIRE
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I POSITION AND NATURAL FEATURES OF CHESHIRE
- CHAPTER II THE MAKING OF CHESHIRE. I The Newer Rocks
- CHAPTER III THE MAKING OF CHESHIRE (cont.). II The Older Rocks
- CHAPTER IV EARLY INHABITANTS OF CHESHIRE
- CHAPTER V THE ROMANS IN CHESHIRE. I
- CHAPTER VI THE ROMANS IN CHESHIRE. II
- CHAPTER VII SAXONS AND ANGLES COME TO CHESHIRE
- CHAPTER VIII THE CROSS IN CHESHIRE
- CHAPTER IX THE COMING OF THE NORTHMEN
- CHAPTER X THE NORMANS COME TO CHESHIRE
- CHAPTER XI THE NORMAN ABBEYS AND CHURCHES OF CHESHIRE
- CHAPTER XII THE EARLS OF THE COUNTY PALATINE
- CHAPTER XIII THE CHURCHES OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY
- CHAPTER XIV GROWTH OF TOWNS IN CHESHIRE
- CHAPTER XV EDWARD THE FIRST AND CHESHIRE
- CHAPTER XVI THE COMING OF THE FRIARS
- CHAPTER XVII A DEPOSED KING
- CHAPTER XVIII THE RIVAL ROSES
- CHAPTER XIX CHURCHES OF THE MIDDLE AGES
- CHAPTER XX THE REFORMATION AND THE GREAT AWAKENING
- CHAPTER XXI ELIZABETHAN CHESHIRE. I
- CHAPTER XXII ELIZABETHAN CHESHIRE. II
- CHAPTER XXIII THE RULE OF THE STUARTS
- CHAPTER XXIV CIVIL WAR IN CHESHIRE. I The Battles of Middlewich and Nantwich
- CHAPTER XXV CIVIL WAR IN CHESHIRE. II A Memorable Siege
- CHAPTER XXVI CIVIL WAR IN CHESHIRE. III The Protectorate and the Restoration
- CHAPTER XXVII THE FALL OF THE STUARTS
- CHAPTER XXVIII THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. I
- CHAPTER XXIX THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. II
- CHAPTER XXX THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION. I
- CHAPTER XXXI THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION. II
- CHAPTER XXXII THE RAILWAYS OF CHESHIRE
- CHAPTER XXXIII PROGRESS AND REFORM IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
- CHAPTER XXXIV THE REIGN OF A GREAT QUEEN
- CHAPTER XXXV FAMOUS MEN AND WOMEN OF CHESHIRE
- CHAPTER XXXVI CONCLUSION
- INDEX
- FOOTNOTES:
- Some Oxford Books on HISTORY
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