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[edit] More or less directly relating to Chester
The following guides and other books connected to Chester are available online:
- The medieval architecture of Chester by John Henry Parker (1858)
- Thacker A. T. Early Mediaeval Chester
- History of the City of Chester Vol II by Joseph Hemingway (1831)
- History of the City of Chester Vol I by Joseph Hemingway (1831)
- Panorama of the City of Chester by Joseph Hemingway (1836)
- A Sketch of the Materials for a New and Compleat History of Cheshire by Foote Gower, Thomas Falconer (1773)
- Journal of the Architectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society for the County and the City of Chester and North Wales (1849-1855)
- Cheshire antiquities by Joseph Strutt (1838)
- British History Online Volume 3 - religious houses
- British History Online Volume 5 part 1 - The City of Chester: General History and Topography
- British History Online Volume 5 part 2 - The City of Chester: Culture, Buildings, Institutions
- The History of Cheshire by Daniel King (1778).
- The History of the Hundred of Wirral by William Williams Mortimer (1847)
[edit] Chronicles
- Annales Cestriensis - Chester Cathedral's own version of the Anglo Saxon Chronicle
- Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: (translated)
- Jocelin of Brakelond Chronicle of The Abbey of St. Edmund's (1173-1202)
[edit] Other pre-modern texts
- The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy by By Ordericus Vitalis, Guizot (François), Léopold Delisle
- Nennius, Richard of Cirencester and others
- Anonymous (c.10th century). Annales Cambriae (text)
- Vita sancti Germani Constantine of Lyon
- The Chronicle of Henry of Huntingdon Ed. Thomas Forester (1853) - also contains the "Acts of King Stephen"
- The historical works of Giraldus Cambrensis Translated by Thomas Forester, Richard Colt Hoare (1863)
- Matthew Paris's English History: From the Year 1235 to 1273 trans John Allen Giles (1853)
- William of Newburgh's History
- William Camden's Britannia
- Gildas
[edit] Religious History
- The Holy Lyfe and History of Saynt Werburge by Henry Bradshaw (edition of 1521)
- Notitia Cestriensis: Or Historical Notices of the Diocese of Chester By Francis Gastrell (1845)
- Diary of Thomas Cartwright (made Bishop of Chester in 1686) - published in 1843.
- The Chester Plays: A Collection of Mysteries by Thomas Wright (1843)
[edit] Travel books where the author passed through Chester
- An excursion from Sidmouth to Chester, in the summer of 1803 by Edmund Butcher (1805) - see pages 188ff for a description of Chester in 1805.
- The Life and Opinions of General Sir Charles James Napier, G.C.B. by Sir William Francis Patrick Napier (his brother).
- Ship and Shore: Or, Pencil Sketches on a Recent Voyage John Spence, young physician (1847) - see chapter 10 for Chester
- Parry's railway companion from Chester to Holyhead, by E. Parry (1848)
- A Visit to Europe in 1851 by Benjamin Silliman see page 33ff for Chester
- A Year Abroad: Or Sketches of Travel in Great Britain by Willard C. George (1852) see chapter I for Chester
- The English at Home by Alphonse Esquiros - a geologist's visit to Chester (see chapter five)
- Wild Wales: its people, language and scenery by George Henry Borrow (1862) see chapter III for Chester.
[edit] Indirectly or partly relating to Chester
The following are more general but mention events concerning Chester:
- Samuel Lewis's 1848 Topographical Dictionary of England
- A History of England Under the Norman Kings By Johann Martin Lappenberg (1857)
- The History of the Anglo-Saxon by Sharon Turner
- PASE - Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
- A History of England: From the First Invasion by the Romans John Lingard (1827)
- History of England Vol 1 (the Anglo Saxon Period) Francis Palgrave (1831)
- The Topographer and Genealogist by John Gough Nichols (1846)
- History of the conquest of England by the Normans By Jacques Nicolas and Augustin Thierry (1847)
- The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England by Edward Hyde Clarendon
- Town Geology by Charles Kingsley (as well as writing "The Water Babies", he also was a founder of the Grosvenor Museum)
- John Haygarth, FRS (1740-1827): A Physician of the Enlightenment by Christopher Charles Booth] -Haygarth was physician to Chester infirmary from 1767 to 1798.
[edit] Other useful lists of history links
More lists of links can be found here:
- The Vortigern Studies website a very good selection of sources.
- Sources and mpgs (audio and video) at WIRRAL AND WEST LANCASHIRE 1100th VIKING ANNIVERSARY HOME PAGE
- A useful list of sources at Britannia History
- A good collection of maps, see anglo-saxons.net
- The "Northvegr" site
- Internet Mediaeval Sourcebook
- The Camelot Project University of Rochester's "Arthurian" documents
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