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Contents 1 More or less directly relating to Chester 2 Chronicles 3 Other pre-modern texts 4 Religious History 5 Travel books where the author passed through Chester 6 Indirectly or partly relating to Chester 7 Other useful lists of history links 8 Books about Chester (not available online)

[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)
• Charles Hiatt: The cathedral church of Chester : a description of the fabric and a brief history of the episcopal see (1905)
• John Derby (1898) Chester cathedral;
• Father Rudolph: The Monks of Old Chester (1907) : not a very useful source, but included for historical interest;
• Rupert Morris: Chester (1895);
• Elizabeth Baldwin: dramatic records of the city of Chester and the county of Cheshire, England up to and including 1642;
• Elizabeth Baldwin: dramatic records of the city of Chester and the county of Cheshire, 1642-5;
• Edward Harrison (1916) Watercolours - including several of the cathedral;
• Howson & Rimmer (1872): Chester as it was;
• The Chester Plays (1892);
• A Guide to Chester Dialect;
• Early Methodism in and around Chester, 1749-1812 (1903);
• Chester in the Plantagenet and Tudor Reigns. (1893) Rupert Morris;
• Sermons in Timber and Stone: Historic Legends of the City of Chester (1892) George Longrigg;
• George Cooke's Topographical and statistical description of the county of Chester (1806):
• A "Handy Guide Book" from the 19th cent.
• "Cheshire, its traditions and history, including a record of the rise and progress of freemasonry in this ancient province" Alfred Ingham (1920).
• Lucian The Monk (at last!)

The Journals of the "Chester and North Wales Architectural, Archaeological and Historical Society";

• search listing

The journals of the Chester Archaeological Society are available as on-line texts:

• search listing

The Cheshire Sheaf is available on CD. Although parts can be found here.

"The Illustrated History Of Chester" Phillip Jones ISBN:13 978 1 85983 648 2 (This is a list of FREE books available online so please add a link)

[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.
• Howson and Rimmer The river Dee : its aspect and history (1889);
• Morris Merionethshire;
• William Ayrton The adventures of a salmon in the river Dee (1853);
• Marie Trevelyan Folk-lore and Folk-stories of Wales;
• George Bolam Wildlife in Wales;
• Anna Seward Llangollen vale, with other poems: (1796);
• W. T. Simpson History of Llangollen and its vicinity: (1835);
• Samuel Lewis A topographical dictionary of Wales: (1845);
• Richard Willett "Memoir of Hawarden parish, Flintshire";
• George Clarke "Hawarden Castle";

[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

[edit] Books about Chester (not available online)

• To Hold By The Sword - a history of Chester's Norman Earls by Phil Jones
• Building Chester