The Beatty Family

As the Great War went on, several articles about the Beatty family found their way into local newspapers. The Beatty family came to be regarded as an example of the type of patriotism displayed by the ordinary people of Chester.

The Irish in Boughton

Between the middle of the 19th and early part of the 20th century, the Irish came to England in droves, mostly  because of the potato famine and lack of work in their homeland.

Radio Merseyside

Last week on 11th November, the University of Chester’s Dr. Hannah Ewence and Ann Marie Curtis of the St. Werburgh’s Great War Study Group, visited BBC Radio Merseyside to talk about the Belgian refugees and soldiers who lived, recovered, and died in Cheshire during the First World War.