A talk by Bob Thomas concentrating on what the Civil War meant for the common man.

Our Christmas party for 1916 when Tom Hughes of Norton Priory Museum and Gardens will be providing a musical Yuletide extravaganza.  Tickets are £8.00 which must be  purchased at a prior meeting of the History Society.

We will initially be meeting Samuel Oldknow (in authentic costume) who will be telling us about Mellor Mill.  This will be followed by a short talk given by Bob Humphrey-Taylor on the work of the Mellor Archaeological Trust.

Michael Crumplin, who is the Curator of the Hunterian Museum based in London's Royal College of Surgeons, is returning to give us what is sure to be a fascinating talk on combat medicine from Azincourt to Helmand.

After our usual short Annual General Meeting, Dr Simon la Frenais will be giving us a talk covering Darwin's early life, the voyage of the Beagle and what happened when he came back.  

This month Elizabeth Royles from the Grosvenor Museum in Chester will be telling us about pre-Roman Cheshire.

Pauline Lloyd will be telling us about healthcare in Manchester from Georgian times, Manchester's first infirmary being founded in 1752, to the present day.  Discover the medic with the mummy, the maternity home in a pub, a nursing heroine, the doctor who penned a thesaurus and John Dalton's opinion of…

Dr Diana Leitch MBE telling us all about the chemical industry in Runcorn and Widnes with additional references to Northwich.

Vanessa Oakden, the Portable Antiquities Scheme Finds Liaison Office for Cheshire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside will be telling us about the Knutsford Hoard.

Colin Edmondson, an amateur historian, researcher and writer, will be taking a look at the effect of salt mining at Marston and Northwich.