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[edit] External Resources:

For links to more historical stuff see the history section of the "Chester Online" listings. Good places to look for more detailed information are:

  • Chester, a Virtual Stroll an excellent guide to the city which features a wealth of detail on the city Walls.
  • Phil Jones' detailed history of Chester is also well worth a look - a linked-in history of the city from the Iron Age onwards.
  • For on-line maps of Chester a really impressive map tool can be found here on the County Council site. This has both modern maps and older ones.
  • More in-depth history can be found at British History Online. This is a major academic project and has very extensive links to the original sources of much of the historical data discussed. The contents can be found here:
  • Finally, Lewis's history of Chester from his Topographical Guide can be found on-line here but may not always be "accurate".
  • There is a history of Chester on this dentists site

We have compiled a list of books at Chester Books

[edit] General materials (on Chesterwiki)

[edit] History of Chester

A brief history of our city. Read this if you are in a hurry and then look at whatever you need more on in the links below (or take the lightning tour of the walls).

[edit] The Chester Timeline

From the Triassic to the Glass Slug - Anything and everything that happened in Chester, in a particular year. Not much detail on the time-line but plenty of links to much more detail!

Image:Glassslug.jpg

[edit] Grosvenor Museum

IT'S FREE! - it's also a very eclectic and impressive collection of Chester through the ages. If there is one place in Chester in need of a website its the Grosvenor Museum

[edit] More Specific Stuff: Articles (on Chesterwiki)

[edit] Deva Victrix

The Roman city of Chester.

[edit] Amphitheatre

Before the campaign to keep the Odeon there would have been one to keep the Amphitheatre...

[edit] Roman remains

A map with pointers to Roman Remains in the city. Possibly a good start for a "Treasure Hunt" if someone wants to come up with one.

[edit] Dark Age Chester

Chester during the "Early Mediaeval" period. From the departure of the Romans and the "Ruin of Britain" to the coming of the Mercians, Vikings, Danes, Angles and Normans. With detains of battles at or near Chester in 616 (Chester), 894 (Chester), 902 (Chester), 924 (Farndon), 937 (Brunanburgh) and featuring both a cast of Kings and the Lady of Mercia.

[edit] Chester Castle

A history of fortification at Chester and other events that involved Chester Castle. Featuring everything from the disaster of the "White Ship", through turncoats and treachery in the Nineteen-Year winter, the wars with Wales, Scotland, Lancaster and York, to mints, courts and prisons, Jacobites, Fenians and the County Council.

[edit] The Earls of Chester

It seems that no other Earldom has suffered such bad luck as that of Chester. For an overview see The Earls of Chester.

For the history of the individual earls see:

[edit] Views of Chester

The have been several maps and aerial views of Chester made over the years. These include:

The Braun and Hogenberg map

[edit] Chester Cathedral

Founded by the Benedictines (who wore brown) - a detailed history and description of the buildings can be found at British History Online.

see also:

[edit] Civil War in Chester

Events and places in and around Chester during the "Wars of Three Kingdoms", fought between 1639 and 1651. The first (1642–1645) and second (1648–1649) civil wars engaged supporters of King Charles I against those of the Long Parliament, while the third war (1649–1651) had supporters of Charles II opposing those of the Rump Parliament. With a detailed timeline, a list of characters and a guide to the battle of Rowton Moor.

[edit] Canal and Boatyard

The "Industrial Revolution" arrives in Chester. Not much on this just yet. If you know more - why not contribute!

[edit] Snippets of Chester History (on Chesterwiki)

[edit] Religious History

[edit] Other places to look

  • Tacitus, "Agricola" at Wikisource
  • T. N. Brushfield, “The Roman Remains of Chester,” Journal Chester Arch. Soc. (hereafter CASJ) 3 (1885) 1-126;
  • W. T. Watkin, Roman Cheshire (1886); J. P. Earwaker, ed., Roman Remains in Chester (1886);
  • P. H. Lawson, “Schedule of the Roman Remains of Chester,” CASJ 27 (1928) 163-89 & “Addenda,” 29 (1932) 69-72 (R. Newstead);
  • J. P. Droop & R. Newstead, “Excavations in the Deanery Field, 1928,” Liverpool AAA 18 (1931) 6-18, 80-113;
  • W. S. Hanson, Agricola and Conquest of North (1987 edn.)
  • R. Newstead & J. P. Droop, “The Roman Amphitheatre at Chester,” CASJ 29 (1932) 1-40;
  • G. A. Webster, “Excavations on the legionary defences at Chester, 1949-1952,” ibid. 39 (1952) 21-28; 40 (1953) 1-23;
  • G. A. Webster, Short Guide to the Roman Inscriptions and Sculptured Stones in the Grosvenor Museum, Chester (rev. 1970)PI;
  • R. P. Wright & I. A. Richmond, Catalogue of the Roman Inscribed and Sculptured Stones in the Grosvenor Museum, Chester (1955);
  • K. Branigan, Roman Britain, 43;
  • F. H. Thompson, Deva: Roman Chester (1959)MPI;
  • D. F. Petch & id., “The Granaries of the Legionary Fortress of Deva,” CASJ 46 (1959) 33-60P;
  • D. F. Petch, “The Praetorium at Deva,” ibid. 55 (1968) 1-6P;
  • D. F. Petch, “The Legionary Fortress of Chester,” in V. E. Nash-Williams, The Roman Erontier in Wales (2d ed. by M. G. Jarrett, 1969)MP;
  • A. J. Church et al Complete Works of Tacitus. New York: Random House, Inc
  • D. F. Petch, “Excavations on the site of the Old Market Hall,” ibid., 57 (1970-71) 3-26;
  • 'Roman Chester', A History of the County of Chester: Volume 5 part 1: The City of Chester: General History and Topography (2003);
  • G. Webster, Boudica (1978 edn.);
  • R.G. Collingwood and R. P. Wright, Roman Inscriptions of Britain;
  • T. J. Strickland, '1st Cent. Deva', CASJ lxiii. 5-13;
  • Princeton Encyl. of Classical Sites
  • Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography
  • Deva Victrix on Wiki
  • Mason, David (2007) Chester AD400-1066. ISBN 978-0-7524-4100-9
  • Bede. Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, Book II, Chapter II [1]
  • Mason, David (2004). Heronbridge excavation and research project. Chester Archaeological Society.
  • Phil Jones picks up the narrative
  • PASE - Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
  • Anonymous (c.10th century). Annales Cambriae
  • Bede. Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, Book II, Chapter II
  • Annals of Tigernach(c.10th century)
  • The Welsh Triads , R. Bromwich(ed.) (1978).
  • Monmouth,(1136). The History of the Kings of Britain.
  • Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: (translated)
  • The "Northvegr" site
  • Wirral and its Viking Heritage, by Paul Cavill, Stephen E. Harding and Judith Jesch ISBN 0 904889 59 9
  • Haigh, Philip A.: The Military Campaigns of the Wars of the Roses
  • Weir, Alison: Lancaster and York
  • Kendall, Paul Murray: The Yorkist Age
  • Kendall, Paul Murray: Richard III
  • Hicks, Michael: The Wars of the Roses 1455-1485
  • Gordon Emery, Curious Chester (1999) ISBN 1-872265-94-4
  • Gordon Emery, Chester Inside Out (1998) ISBN 1-872265-92-8
  • Gordon Emery, The Chester Guide (2003) ISBN 1-872265-89-8
  • Roy Wilding, Death in Chester (2003) ISBN 1-872265-44-8
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