William Axon, a Manchester antiquary, gleans the byways of Lancashire history in a series of short pieces: the so-called Lancashire Plot, De Quincey’s highwayman, local centenarians, the first book printed in Manchester, a Liverpool Quaker worthy, Kufic coins dug up in the county, newspapers of 1738 and the reading tastes revealed by an eighteenth-century circulating library.
A pleasant miscellany for browsers of local history and lovers of the North West. Download the free EPUB.