Summer events Cheshire Archives & Local Studies Saturday 20 June Remembering the Fallen of Cheshire: WW1 memorials of Cheshire Why are some men commemorated on more than one memorial? Why do some places have several memorials and others none at all? Who paid for them? This talk by our Local Studies Advisor will answer these questions with examples from around the county. Cheshire Record Office 5-6 pm June May Wednesday27 May Horrible Handwriting for Historians Adult Learners’ Week event A practical workshop led by archivists. Learn to interpret and understand writing in old documents. Booking Essential! Cheshire Record Office 10.30am-12.30pm Wednesday 24 June What’s brewing in the archives? Beer! A crawl through eight centuries of brewing history with an archivist and an amateur brewer. Cheshire Record Office 5-6pm Saturday 27 June All Steamed Up! Explore our Foden collection with records and photographs from the golden age of steam wagons. See us at the Kelsall Steam Rally! July Wednesday 29 July A Decade of Change The Magna Carta of Cheshire: What and When 1910-1920: Life in Cheshire East through Photographs Guest Speaker: Professor Graeme White Exhibition This year Cheshire is celebrating the 800th anniversary of the sealing of Magna Carta by looking at its own charter by Ranulf de Blundeville, Earl of Chester. Find out more about this little known document, its survival and meaning. Cheshire Record Office 5-6pm at Macclesfield Library 22 June - 3 July Special event Tuesday 30 June Exhibition at Nantwich Library 6 July - 17 July Special event Tuesday 14 July All events are free to attend - book Record Office events ... Online: www.cheshirearchivesandlocalstudies.eventbrite.co.uk or Telephone: 01244 972559 www.archives.cheshire.gov.uk