Publications

Articles in published journals are shown within quotation marks.  For a list of E-books use the link at the bottom of the page.

The Chivalry of Cheshire, 1981 (This account of the military activities of the Cheshire Gentry 1346-1400 has been  completely revised as an E-book and soft-back in 2017 and is available from Amazon Kindle)

‘Vale Royal Estate, 1616’, Cheshire History, vol. 30,1992 and vol. 31, 1993.

‘The Heraldic Screens of Middlewich’, Cheshire History, vol.34, 1994.

‘The Origins of Over and Darnhall’, Cheshire History. vol. 37, 1997.

‘The Origins of Over and Darnhall’, Winsford Record, New Series, 1, 1997.

‘The Over Cotton Mill Fire’, Winsford Record, New Series, 2, 1997.

‘Knights Grange - six centuries of history’, Winsford Record, New Series, 3, 1998.

‘The Revolt of the Darnhall Peasants’, Winsford Record, New Series, 4, 1998.

‘17th Century Over’, Winsford Record, New Series, 5, 1998.

‘Darnhall School’, Winsford Record, New Series, 6, 1998, (editor).

Vale Royal Abbey and the Cistercians 1277-1542, Northwich Heritage Soc. Publication, 1998.

‘Wharton and Winsford in 1841’ Winsford Record, New Series, 7, 1999.

‘A Question of Identity: Cheadle Church’s Medieval Effigies’, Cheshire History, vol. 40, 2000.

‘Owners, Occupiers and Others: Seventeenth Century Northwich’, Cheshire History, vol. 41, 2001.

‘A Way Through the Woods’, Cheshire History, vol. 43, 2003.

‘Oulton’s Historic Park and Garden’, Cheshire History, vol. 44, 2004.

Owners, Occupiers and Others: Seventeenth Century Northwich, 2004: a study of a Cheshire salt town. Published by Leonie Press. £11.99

‘Mapping the Past: Tithes and their value in mapping the past’, Cheshire History, vol. 47, 2007.

A Hidden Place of Worship: a history of St Chad’s church and parish, Over, Winsford. 2007.

St. Chad’s Church, Over: a history and guidebook. 2007

‘Sir Oliver Starkey, a Knight of Malta’, Cheshire Historyvol. 49 , 2009

Bostock: A History of a Village and its People.  2010.   Published by Amazon Books UK.   Available as a Kindle e-book

‘An Ancient Mariner and Tudor Hero: Sir George Beeston of Beeston’, Cheshire History,  vol 51, 2011.

‘Sir Thomas Holcroft of Vale Royal’ , Cheshire History, vol. 54,  2014.

Winsford: a History of a Cheshire Town and its People (2015) Published by Leonie Press £10.00.    Also available as a Kindle e-book

‘Cheshire’s Seat of Learning’, Cheshire History, vol. 55,  2016.

‘The Heraldic Screens of Middlewich, Cheshire’, The Coat of Arms, series 4, vol. 1, 2018.

‘”Learned & Langwaged”: William Smith (1546-1618), Rouge Dragon Pursuivant of Arms’,  Cheshire History, vol. 57, 2018.

'Five Medieval Cheshire Knights', Cheshire History, vol. 58, 2019.

'The Bramall Pew', The Heraldry Gazette, December 2019.

'The Bramhall Hall Elizabethan Heraldic Carpet', The Coat of Arms, series 4, vol. 3, 2020.

A Damnable and Sinister Regime; Vale Royal Abbey, 1260-1538 (2020). Published by Amazon Books UK. Available as a Kindle e-book.

Cheshire's Charms: Ancient Villages & Hamlets. (2020). Published by Amazon Books UK. Available as a Kindle e-book.

'Mary Fitton: The Life and Loves of an Elizabethan Maid of Honour', Cheshire History, vol. 61, 2021

 The Norman Earls of Chester and their Barons (2021). Published by Amazon Books UK.

The Three 'Wiches': Early Salt making in Cheshire (2023). Published by Amazon Books UK.

'The Brereton Roll: a sixteenth century heraldic pedigree', The Coat of Arms, series 4, vol. 6, 2023.

Cheshire' Monumentsto the Past (2023). Published by Amazon Books UK. First published in 2016 in two volumes.

'A Disputed Will: The Case of Charles Whittingham of Over', Cheshire History, vol 63, 2023.