Lancashire History Websites

This page is split into four sections:

1. Websites that cover the whole of Lancashire
2. Specialist historical websites for the county
3. Regional websites (e.g. Bury, Ribble Valley, Tameside etc ) featuring local history groups and museums
4. Sites from just over the borders of the county

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Websites for the Whole of Lancashire

Lancashire Past – this site! www.lancashirepast.com

Lancashire at War www.lancashireatwar.co.uk

Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire www.hslc.org.uk

Lancashire Archaeological Society www.lancsarchaeologicalsociety.wordpress.com

Lancashire Family History & Heraldry Society www.lfhhs.org

Lancashire Local History Society www.lancashirehistory.org

Lancashire Parish Register Society www.lprs.org.uk

Regional Heritage Society Lancaster University  www.lancaster.ac.uk/users/rhc

Greater Manchester Festival blog (archaeology) diggreatermanchester.wordpress.com/

Friends of Real Lancashire www.forl.co.uk

Heritage Trust for the North West htnw.co.uk

The Chetham Society chethamsociety.org.uk

Dr Mike Nevell’s blog on Archaeology in the North West archaeologytea

North West Sound Heritage northwestsoundheritage.org

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Lancashire specialist sites

Roman Roads in Lancashire www.romanroads.org

Medieval Misericords in Lancashire  www.misericords.co.uk/northern.html

North West Catholic History nwcatholichistory.org.uk

Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal Society www.mbbcs.org.uk

The Victorian Society  www.victoriansociety.org.uk/Manchester

Steam Heritage www.steamheritage.co.uk

Lathom and Burscough Military Heritage Society lbmhs.co.uk

Pilkington’s Lancastrian Pottery Society pilkingtons-lancastrian.co.uk

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Local History &  Archaeology Websites,  Societies  and Museums

Greater Manchester – South Lancashire Regional Boroughs

Bury

Ainsworth Village History Society www.ainsworthhistorysociety.org

Bury Archaeological Group facebook page

Bury Archives and Local History www.buryculture.wordpress.com

Bury and District Local History Society  www.burylhs.org.uk

Holcombe Moor Heritage Group www.holcombemoorheritagegroup.org

Prestwich and Whitefield Heritage Society  www.prestwichheritage.co.uk

Ramsbottom Heritage Society  www.ramsbottomheritage.org.uk

Museums

Bury Art Museum     Bury Transport Museum      Fusiliers Museum

Bolton

Bolton Archaeological and Egyptology Society  www.boltonaes.co.uk

Halliwell Local History Society www.halliwell-lhs.co.uk

Horwich Heritage  www.horwichheritage.co.uk

Westhoughton History Group www.westhoughtonhistorygroup.org.uk

Hall i’th’ Wood Estate History hallithwoodestateourhistory

Museums

Bolton Museum        Bolton Steam Museum   Horwich Heritage Centre

Wigan

Wigan Archaeological Society www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk

Museums

Wigan Museum of Life      Astley Green Colliery Museum

Trencherfield Mill Steam Engine

Leigh Spinners Mill

Salford

Salford Forum of Local History Organisations salfordforum.co.uk

Salford Local History Society www.slhs.btck.co.uk

Eccles Local History Society edhs.btck.co.uk

Walkden Local History Society wa.btck.co.uk

Worsley Civic Trust worsleycivictrust.org

Swinton and Pendlebury Local History Society facebook page

Irwell Valley Mining Project imvp.org.uk

Museums

Salford Museum and Art Gallery

Working Class Movement Library

Manchester

Our Manchester manchesterhistory.net

South Manchester Archaeology Group here

Manchester Modernist Society manchestermodernists.wordpress

Manchester Region Industrial Archaeology Society mrias.co.uk

Museums

Manchester Museum (The University of Manchester)

Museum of Science and Industry   Museum of Transport   People’s History Museum

Imperial War Museum North    Emmaus Heritage Centre

Pankhurst Centre     Gallery of Costume      Greater Manchester Police Museum

Rochdale

Middleton Archaeological Society www.middletonas.com

Whitworth Historical Society and Museum  www.whitworthhistoricalsociety.org.uk

Museums

Touchstones        Rochdale Pioneers Museum   Littleborough Coach House 

Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum  Ellenroad Engine House

Oldham

Friends of Castleshaw Roman Fort castleshawarchaeology.co.uk

Chadderton Historical Society  www.chadderton-historical-society.org.uk

Museums

Gallery Oldham    Saddleworth Museum and Gallery

Tameside

Tameside Archaeological Society www.tas-archaeology.org.uk

Denton Local History Society  www.dentonlocalhistorysociety.co.uk

Museums

Portland Basin Museum   Museum of the Manchester Regiment 

Park Bridge Heritage Centre

Stockport

Stockport Heritage Trust https://stockportheritagetrust.co.uk/

Stockport Building Preservation Trust stockportbuildingpreservationtrust.co.uk/

Mellor Archaeological Trust https://www.matrust.org.uk/

Mellor Archaeological Trust old website www.mellorarchaeology-2000-2010.org.uk

Museums

Stockport Museum    Hat Works   Avro Heritage Museum

Trafford

South Trafford Archaeological Group stagarchaeologymanchester.wordpress.com/

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Lancashire Boroughs

Fylde 

Lytham Heritage Group  www.lythamheritage.co.uk

Fylde History Network www.fyldehistorynetwork.co.uk

Poulton-le-Fylde Historical and Civic Society www.poulton-le-fylde-hcs.co.uk

Fylde, Wyre and District Villages amounderness.co.uk

Museums

Lytham Heritage Centre    Farmer Parrs Museum and Heritage Centre

Lytham Windmill Museum

Wyre

Wyre Archaeology Group www.wyrearchaeology.org.uk

Garstang Historical Society www.garstanghistoricalsociety.org.uk

Museums

Fleetwood Museum

Lancaster

Lancaster and District Heritage Group lancasterheritage.org.uk

Lancaster Archaeological and Historical Society lahs.archaeologyuk.org

Mourholme Local History Society www.mourholme.co.uk

Tatham History Society www.tathamhistory.org.uk

Museums

Lancaster City Museum   Lancaster Maritime Museum    Cottage Museum    Heysham Heritage Association

Furness and Cartmel –  Lancashire North of the Sands

Barrow-in-Furness Civic and Local History Society  https://barrowhistorysociety.co.uk

Museums

The Dock Museum

Preston and South Ribble

Leyland Historical Society  www.leylandhistoricalsociety.co.uk

Longridge and District Historical Society www.ldlhs.org.uk

Preston Historical Society www.prestonhistoricalsociety.org.uk

Preston History https://prestonhistory.com/

Friends of the Old Tramroad Bridge facebook page

Museums

Harris Museum    Museum of Lancashire   South Ribble Museum

British Commercial Vehicle Museum   Lancashire Infantry Museum

Church Cottage Museum Broughton

Chorley

Chorley Historical and Archaeological Society www.chorleyhistory.co.uk

Brindle Historical Society www.brindlehistoricalsociety.org.uk

Chorley Heritage Centre www.chorleyheritagecentre.co.uk

White Coppice, Anglezarke & Rivington white-coppice.co.uk

Ribble Valley

Bowland Cave excavation www.shelteringmemory.wordpress.com

Chipping Local History Society www.chippinghistory.co.uk

Clitheroe Civic Society clitheroecivicsociety.org.uk/

Museums

 Clitheroe Castle Museum     Ribchester Roman Museum

Blackburn and Darwen

Blackburn Local History Society  www.blackburnlhs.org.uk

Cotton Town website www.cottontown.org

Darwen Days www.darwendays.co.uk

Museums

Blackburn Museum

Darwen Heritage Centre

Burnley and Hyndburn

Burnley Historical Society www.burnleyhistoricalsociety.com

The Briercliffe Society  www.briercliffesociety.co.uk

Hapton Heritage Group www.haptonheritage.co.uk

Hyndburn Local History Society www.hyndburnlhs.org.uk

Museums

Queen Street Mill Textile Museum   Hyndburn Heritage Centre Museum   Weavers Triangle

Pendle

Pendle Archaeology Group/Friends of Pendle Heritage https://www.foph.co.uk/archaeology/

Pendle Forest History Group roughlee.org.uk/pendle-forest-history-group

Museums

Pendle Heritage Centre   British in India Museum    Bancroft Mill Engine Trust

Rossendale

Rossendale Civic Trust  www.rossendalecivictrust.wordpress.com

Rossendale Family History and Heritage Society rossendale-fhhs.org.uk/

Bacup Township Heritage Initiative www.bacupthi.org.uk

Bacup Times www.bacuptimes.co.uk

Valley of Stone www.valleyofstone.org.uk

Haslingden Old and New https://haslingdens.blogspot.com/

South Pennine Archaeology Group digspag.org

Springhill History springhillhistory.org

Museums

The Whitaker

Weavers’ Cottage

West Lancashire,  Sefton and Merseyside

Liverpool History Society  www.liverpoolhistorysociety.org.uk

Merseyside Archaeological Society  www.merseysidearchsoc.weebly.com

Mere Brow Local History Society www.merebrow.com/historysociety.html

Ormskirk Historical Society  http://ormskirkhistoricalsociety.co.uk/

Lathom Park Trust www.lathomparktrust.org.uk/

Crosby Historical Society  www.crosbyhistorical.org.uk

Formby Civic Society  www.formbycivicsociety.org.uk

Knowsley Local History  www.history.knowsley.gov.uk

North Meols Family History Society www.nmfhssouthport.co.uk

Widnes  Historical Society www.widneshistoricalsociety.org.uk

Wirral and West Lancashire Viking Research Page www.nottingham.ac.uk/-sczsteve

Merseyside Tramway Preservation Society  www.mtps.co.uk

@ww2ghostsigns Twitter account on World War 2 old painted military signs

Wirral Archaeology wirralarchaeology.org

Museums

Museum of Liverpool   World Museum

Victoria Gallery and Museum                                   Merseyside Maritime Museum

Western Approaches : Liverpool War Museum    U Boat Story       The Atkinson

Port Sunlight Museum    Williamson Art Gallery and Museum

Prescott Museum   Williamson Tunnels Heritage Centre

Warrington

Warrington History Society  warringtonhistorysociety.uk

Culcheth History Society  https://www.clhg.org.uk/

Museums

Warrington Museum

St Helens

Sutton History suttonbeauty.org

Newton History newton-le-willows.com

Rainhill Trials  www.rainhilltrialls.com

Museums

North West Museum of Road Transport    World of Glass

Smithy Heritage Centre

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Further Afield

Runcorn Historical Society runcornhistsoc.org.uk

Glossop Heritage Trust glossopheritage.co.uk

Glossop and Longdale Archaeological Society www.glossopheritage.co.uk/glas.htm

Lunesdale Archaeology Society  lunesdale.wordpress.com