Open History

The magazines and offprints mentioned below are available from the Editor, Open History, 77 Marford Crescent, Sale, Cheshire M33 4DN. Cheques payable to The Open University History Society. Also available via NWAS's webpages on GenFair (www.genfair.com) or Parish Chest (www.parishchest.com). Payment on these websites via credit card.

Back Copies

Please note: Postage and packing on the first back copy is £1.00; second and subsequent 50p each

Open History 67, June 1998
A4, £1.50
Llanfor; Life and Death in the Workhouse; What did Women in France and Italy Gain from the Liberation and Reconstruction, 1945-1954?; Offcuts (snippets of information on the activities of the Fenians in America); Losing Catraeth - The Gododdin of Aneirin: History or Literature?; Some Early Local Tanners in Gomshall; Citizenship and State Control in Nineteenth Century Europe

Open History 68, September 1998
A4, £1.50
New Course - Modern Scottish History: 1707 to the Present; From Angel in the House to Home Technician: Middle class domesticity between 1850-1950; South Shields AFC and the Death of the old North Eastern League; Bethnal Green, London 1871-1891; New Mills and its Early Cotton Mills; The Cruise of the W.T. Robb

Open History 73, December 1999
A4, £1.50
The Importance of Labour Supply and Technological Innovation in the Industrialisation of Britain and the United States; Castlefield, Manchester: The Regeneration and Sustainable Development of an Historic Industrial Site; Swinton Industrial School; The Etymon of the Fourth Reich; Thomas Hughes - Christian Socialist: A short biographical note; Why is the Author Not Named?

Open History 77, December 2000
A4, £1.50
Nineteenth Century Tourist Guides to the High Peak and their References to the New Mills District; Does the 'Heritage Industry' Represent 'History From Above' or 'History From Below?; "A Bill With Every Disadvantage": The Battle Over the Abolition of Resale Price Maintenance 1963-1964; The Role of Agriculture in Economic Development in Britain and America up to 1860; Unemployment 1886

Open History 78, March 2001
A4, £2.00
Women Social Investigators (1850-1914); 'New Wave' and Mainstream British Cinema of the 1950s; The "Flavour" of Life in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Lincolnshire: The Contribution of Oral and Cultural Sources; The Impact of Hydraulic-Lift Power on Late Victorian London: A little-known source of distributed power; Recalling The 1948 Truman Show: An Antidote to the Present Bush-Gore Bore

Open History 79, June 2001
A4, £2.00
Holocaust Denial is a Crime Against Humanity; Peter Dewint, Walter Christaller and the Carrier's Cart; Women with the Peninsular Army; Wartime Legacy?: Some of the significant changes to people's lives brought about by The Second World War

Open History 80, September 2001
A4, £2.00
The Life of Mary Shelley; Queen Victoria's Funeral: Two Young Victorians and the New Century; Continuity and Innovation in the Development of Social Investigation?; Four Family Wills: The Howards of Eaton Bray and the Woodbridges of Beaconsfield; The Economic Architecture of Victory: The Macmillan Government 1957-1961

Open History 81, December 2001
A4, £2.00
Our History, My Heritage: Joint project by the History Channel and English Heritage; Focus on Germany: A Personal View; Red Jim McDermott; The Contribution of Women to Social Inquiry 1850-1914; What if the Railways had not been Invented?; Droving and the Cattle Plague 1865-66; Jonathan Dewhurst: The Lancashire Tragedian

Open History 82, March 2002
A4, £2.00
Charles Booth Just Described Things as They Were: An adequate assessment of his methods and their results?; The Early Cotton Industry of New Mills; The Poll Tax of 1380 for Shere and Gomshall; The Battle of Inkerman; The Battle at Bloody Corner

Open History 83, June 2002
A4, £2.00
Questions of Gender in the Interpretation of Victorian Religion; A Comparison of Science in Eighteenth-Century Sweden and Russia; The Classification and Causes of Rural Crime; The Impact of Socialism on Working-Class Politics in Britain and America; Heroes of the Nation? The Celebration of Scientists on the Postage Stamps of Great Britain, France and West Germany

Open History 84, September 2002
A4, £2.00
The Effects of the First World War on the Social Classes; Was the Outbreak of the First World War Accident or Design?; Appeasement in 1938 was the Right Policy for Preventing War; Retreat From La Coruna

Open History 85, December 2002
A4, £2.00
The Lines of Torres Vedras; Industrial Gases by Dr Harold Cecil Greenwood; U-571 and Enigma; The Village of Telscombe, East Sussex in the Seventeenth Century; Against the Odds: The Foundation and Early Years of the Hollies FCJ Convent School, Manchester

Open History 86, March 2003
A4, £3.00
The Bombing of Britain During World War II; The Growth of Settlement and Communications in the Marple Area: A study in applied geology and geomorphology; Thomas Benson: Eighteenth Century Sleaze Merchant; The Impact of Inter-war Depression on the Economies of Great Britain and the US; The Zimmerman Telegram

Open History 88, September 2003
A4, £3.00
Lowestoft and East Suffolk Maritime Society Museum; An Engine Driver's Diary: Robert Livesey Rawcliffe of Blackburn (1873-1963); The Penitentiary Act of 1779 and the Transportation of Criminals; Unemployment and the Poor Law 1919-1929: Poplar and Eastbourne; Men Only?: The expanding role of women in the armed forces; The Kestells: A Naval Family

Open History 89, December 2003
A4, £3.00
Society visit to Avoncroft 19 July 2003; Motivations for Imperialism: Britain and America in the Late Nineteenth Century; Poulton Abbey, Cheshire; Technology and the Changing Face of Renaissance Cities; Abyssinian Expedition, 1868

Open History 90, March 2004
A4, £3.00 (reduced from £4.00 because of missing p.6)
Forge Mill Needle Museum; Shamrock and Edelweiss; Play, Leisure, Accents: Childhood in 1930s Northamptonshire; Social Shaping of Ancient Roman Water Technologies; The Anglo-Saxons or the Normans: To which are the English most indebted?

Open History 91, June 2004
A4, £4.00
The Strange Case of the New Nazi Postal Order; The Lancashire Witches in 1612: How much do we really know about the case?; A Cycle Ride in the Black Forest, June 1939; Pictures from the First World War

Open History 93, December 2004 (for Open History 92 see Special Conference Editions)
A4, £4.00
What Role Did Lancaster Play in the Slave Trade?; Fighting Wilkie's Corner: Joe Louis and the 1940 Presidential Election; Politics and the Zuku War 1878/79; The Establishment of Cities in Roman Britain

Open History 94, March 2005
A4, £4.00
Mr Thurtell and Mr Weare: A Hertfordshire Murder; Equipose and the Great Exhibition of 1851: Maturity, Social Harmony and Economic Prosperity in the Mid-Victorian Era; Escape from Elba; Labour Relations and the Hollywood Movie Industry; Servants of the People? The relationship between the East Sussex Constabulary and working people, 1840 to 1880

Open History 95, June 2005
A4, £5.00.
Edward Elgar: The Closing Years; Christianity in Roman Gloucester; From March to Hiphop: A Tottenham School's Wartime Evacuation; Pettifogers or Professionals: A Study of George Hodgkinson and Son, Attorneys in Eighteenth-century Southwell; The Frustrations and Satisfaction of a Victorian Lady

Open History 96, Autumn/Winter 2005
A4, £5.00.
The Chinley Herbages in the Royal Forest of the Peak; The Habsburg Empire: Terminal case or victim of world events; The Paris Cannon and Gerald Bull; William Smith (1769-1839) and Mapping Geology; Thomas Cochrane, Admiral of the Fleet (1775-1860): Internet Sources for the Age of Nelson

Open History 97, Spring 2006
In Memory of Allan Fletcher
A4, £5.00.
Samuel Crompton; Poverty and the Lancashire Cotton Famine 1861-4; The Lines of Torres Vedras; Thomas Hughes - Christian Socialist: A short biographical note; Plas-yn-Rhiw

Open History Special Conference Editions

Open History Millennium Special Conference Edition 2000
A4, £6.00. Postage and packing £1.00
"Knock 'Em in the Old Kent Road": Music as a Social History Model; Robert Burns 25th January to 21st July 1796: Ploughman, Poet, Radical, patriot: An Appreciation; Blind Drunk to the Blind House; Sixty Years After the Outbreak of the Second World War Have its Origins Been Fully Explained?; The New Millennium Walkway and the Ancient and Modern Routes into the Torrs; Half Timer: Image and Reality; The Iliad of Homer as Astronomical Text; Has History Lost Its Way?; Rise of English Monasticism 1066 to 1150; History and Religion 2000 Years On; The Most Important Moment of the Twentieth Century; 1000 Years of Influences and Developments on British Food

Open History Special Conference Edition 2001: Making a Difference
A4, £2.50. Postage and packing £1.00.
The Effect of Steam Power on the West Midland Needle-making Industry; The Romans: Did They Make a Difference to Britain?; The Synod of Whitby AD 664; Did Militant act by the WSPU Make a Difference to 'The Cause'?; Did Operation Marita Make a Difference to Hitler's Plans for the Invasion of Russia and the Outcome of the Second World War in General?

Open History Special Conference Edition 2002: Of Cabbages and Kings
A4, £2.50. Postage and packing £1.00.
Lone Motherhood: The unwed mother in nineteenth century Ringwood (1st prize BALH award); King Zog, crossword compilers' friend or world historical figure?; Why did the Renaissance and the Reformation Fail to Take Root in Spain?; How History is Presented; The Ancient Britons: Kings and Demi Kings of the British Aristocracy

Open History Special Conference Edition 2003: Travel and Transport
A4, £2.50.
A Short History of Flight: Per Ardua ad Astra; Reluctant Travellers; London Transport; Wheels and Water

Open History Special Conference Edition 2004: The Family (also Open History 92, September 2004)
A4, £4.00
The Monastic Family; Family Communication and Migration, Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries; Two Trips to Belgium Seventy Years Apart; The Sutherlands of Longton, Staffordshire; The Wheable Family

Publications by OUHS Members

Letters in Lead: The Men and Village of Lindal-in-Furness in the Great War by Caroline Turner. Paperback, illustrations, maps, £4.95

Shere Poverty: From Parish Workhouse to Union Workhouse by Ann Noyes. Paperback, illustrations, map, £3.00. Shere is a parish in Surrey.

Engaged in War: the Letters of Stanley Goodland 1914-1919 edited by Ann Noyes and David Goodland. Paperback, illustrations, maps, £9.50.

Shere, A Surrey Village in Maps: A Record of Its Growth and Development by Shere, Gomshall and Peaslake Local History Society Spiral, maps, £6.00.

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