Forthcoming Talks

‘History matters because it is our collective memory, which is the best weapon against tyranny.’

 

9 May 2024 The Ill, the Impoverished, the Illegitimate and the Insane: researching our marginalised ancestors London, Westminster and Middlesex Family History Society online

11 May 2024 The Family History Revolution Family History Federation 50th Anniversary AGM

13 May 2024 Elusive Ancestors: migration within the British Isles start of a 4 week online course for Pharos Tutors

14 May 2024 Remember Then: memories of 1946-1949 and how to write your own Bude WI

16 May 2024 Madness, Mania and Melancholia: tracing your ancestors with the asylum walls Society of Genealogists online

18 May 2024 Would you have Survived in C16th Sampford Courtenay Devon Family History Society

18 May 2024 Coming Here: records of immigrants and immigration into Britain The Family and Community History Research Society Conference

4 June 2024 Besoms, Battledores, Bedsteads and Bum Rolls: the role of women in the seventeenth century  West Surrey Family History Society online

10 June 2024 Ancestors on the Margins Oxfordshire Family History Society online

19 June 2024 The Burning Time: witchcraft in the seventeenth century Monkokehampton Ladies

24 June 2024 First Steps to a One-place Study start of a 5 week online course for Pharos Tutors

28 June 2024 Remember Then: memories of 1946-1969 and how to write your own Ilfracombe U3A

29 June 2024 Family History: the next generation Society of Genealogists online

6 July 2024 Tulips, Topiary, Tradescanth & Thyme: seventeenth century gardens Hampshire Genealogical Society

10 July 2024 Barefoot on the Cobbles Shebbear WI

10 July 2024 Fremington WI Topic TBA

11 July 2024 How to Trace your Family History Westdown WI 

11 July 2024 Coffers, Clysters, Comfrey and Coifs: the lives of our seventeenth century ancestors Awliscombe Ladies

19 August 2024 Are you Sitting Comfortably: writing and telling your family history start of a 5 week online course for Pharos Tutors

31 August 2024 Women’s Lives on the Farm online part of the Society of Genealogists ‘Was your Ancestor and Agricultural Labourer? Day

3 September 2024 Coffers, Clysters, Comfrey and Coifs: the lives of our seventeenth century ancestors Braunton U3A

27 September 2024 Publishing your Family History Research FIBIS Conference

28 September 2024 Ancestors on the Margins Northamptonshire Family History Society One Day Conference

7 October 2024 Discovering your British Family and the Local Community in the early C20th start of a 5 week online course for Pharos Tutors

12 October 2024 Forgotten Women: researching the marginalised women on your family tree Genealogical Society of Queensland online 

18 October 2024 Creating Frameworks and Timelines part of the Writing Your Family History Course for Society of Genealogists

21 October 2024 The Smith Family of London: a case study part of the London Ancestors Course for Society of Genealogists

22 October 2024 The Burning Time: witchcraft in the seventeenth century ABC Family History Association online

1 November 2024 Report Writing and Referencing part of the Writing Your Family History Course for Society of Genealogists

11 November 2024 In Sickness and in Death: researching the ill-health and death of your ancestors start of a 5 week online course for Pharos Tutors

21 November 2024 Airedale and Wharfdale Family History Society Topic TBA online

30 November 2024 Writing and Publishing your Family History part of the Society of Genealogists Stage 3 Skills course online

3 December 2024 Sins as Red as Scarlet: a Devon town in turmoil East Exe Probus Club

3 December 2024 Doxies, Dolly-mops and Dressmakers: the history of prostitution 1780-1930 Chesterfield and District Family History Society Hybrid meeting

9 December 2024 Besoms, Battledores, Bedsteads and Bum Rolls: the role of women in the seventeenth century Abbotskerswell History Group

18 December 2024 Ancestors on the Margins Family History Society of Cheshire online

9 January 2025 Tulips, Topiary, Tradescanth & Thyme: seventeenth century gardens Uplowman WI

11 January 2025 Lincolnshire Family History Society (Lincoln branch) online Topic TBC

14 January 2025 Are you Sitting Comfortably: writing your family history North of Ireland Family History Society (Lisburn branch) online

21 January 2025 Uproar and Disorder: the impact of the Bible Christians on parishes in North Devon Exbourne Local History Group

31 January 2025 Bude History Group Topic TBA

2025 date TBC Sons of the Soil: tracing agricultural labouring ancestors start of an online course for Pharos Tutors

11 February 2025 Ancestors on the Margins Waltham Forest Family History Society online

13 February 2025 Doxies, Dolly-mops and Dressmakers: the history of prostitution 1780-1930 Hampshire Genealogical Society Andover Branch online

24 February 2025 Okehampton Ladies Probus Topic TBC

25 February 2025 Remember Then: memories of 1946-1949 and how to write your own Barnstaple Group

8 March 2025 The Alfred Gillett Trust, Street Topic TBC

10 March 2025 Misfortunate Women: the stories of Devon women on the margins Crediton Area History and Museum Society

9 June 2025 Occupational Hazards: the working lives of our ancestors? Bishop’s Nympton Local History Society

Talks and Presentations

Selected Previous Talks

Some Testimonials

Handouts

‘History paints the human heart’ Napoleon I