Forthcoming Talks

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

 

8 June 2023 Sons of the Soil: researching our agricultural labouring ancestors Wiltshire Family History Society (Swindon Group) online

10 June 2023 Coffers, Clysters, Comfrey and Coifs: the lives of our seventeenth century ancestors Thornton le Clay village event

15 June 2023 Forgotten Women West Surrey Family History Society online

27 June 2023 Family Memorabilia and a Sense of Belonging: exploring our emotional ties to the family archive  Family Archives and their Afterlives Conference Birmingham

28 June 2023 Family Heirlooms: telling their stories online workshop for Society of Genealogists

3 July 2023 The Ill, the Impoverished, the Illegitimate, the Insane: researching our marginalised ancestors Suffolk Family History Society online

6 July 2023 Toleration or Turmoil: English non-conformity and our ancestors Society of Genealogists online

12 July 2023 Coffers, Clysters, Comfrey and Coifs: the lives of our seventeenth century ancestors Torbay U3A

13 July 2023 Forgotten Women Holsworthy History Society

17 July 2023 Sons of the Soil: tracing agricultural labouring ancestors start of an online course for Pharos Tutors

19 July 2023 A to Z of Family History: an alphabetical journey through some less well-known sources Family History Society of Cheshire online

24 July 2023 First Steps to a One-place Study start of a 5 week online course for Pharos Tutors

10 August 2023 A Genealogist’s Nightmare: tracing the Smith family of London Society of Genealogists online 

5 October 2023 Coffers, Clysters, Comfrey and Coifs: the lives of our seventeenth century ancestors Taw U3A

7 October 2023 Sons of the Soil: tracing agricultural labouring ancestors Society of Genealogists‘ Agricultural Labourers Day course online

9 October 2023 Discovering your British Family and the Local Community in the early C20th start of a 5 week online course for Pharos Tutors

10 October 2023 Madness, Mania and Melancholia: tracing your ancestors with the asylum walls The Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies online

10 October 2023 The Ill, the Impoverished, the Illegitimate and the Insane: researching our marginalised ancestors Nuneaton and North Warwickshire Family History Society online

13 October 2023 Sins as Red as Scarlet: a Devon town in turmoil Sampford Peverell Society

17 October 2023 Coffers, Clysters, Comfrey and Coifs: the lives of our seventeenth century ancestors Topsham Museum

19 October 2023 Remember Then: memories of 1946-1949 and how to write your own Northam Methodist Fellowship 

30 October 2023 Epidemic Disease and our London Ancestors part of the Society of Genealogists’ Sick London course online

1 November 2023 The Burning Time: witchcraft in the seventeenth century Fremington WI

1 November 2023 The Maternal Line online workshop for Society of Genealogists

4 November 2023 Ancestors on the Margins Campbell River Genealogy Society and Qualicum Beach Family History Society online

7 November 2023 Sons of the Soil: researching our agricultural labouring ancestors Chesterfield and District Family History Society Hybrid meeting

13 November 2023 In Sickness and in Death: researching the ill-health and death of your ancestors start of a 5 week online course for Pharos Tutors

13 November 2023 The Battle of Torrington Torrington History Society

6 December Family Photographs and a Sense of Belonging online workshop for Society of Genealogists

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

9 January 2024 Hampshire Genealogical Society (Fair Oak) Topic TBA online

11 January 2024 Tulips, Topiary, Tradescanth & Thyme: seventeenth century gardens Uplowman WI

25 January 2024 Coffers, Clysters, Comfrey and Coifs: the lives of our seventeenth century ancestors Totnes U3A

26 January 2024 Bude U3A Topic TBA

27 January 2024 Putting your Ancestors in their Place: 10 steps to a one-place study Hertfordshire Family History Society online TBC

6 February 2024 The Ill, the Impoverished, the Illegitimate and the Insane Genealogical Society of Queensland online 

12 February 2024 Berkhampstead Genealogy Group online Topic TBA

13 February 2024 A Genealogist’s Nightmare: tracing the Smith family of London Waltham Forest Family History Society online

21 March 2024 Hartland Historical Society Topic TBA

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

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

Talks and Presentations

Selected Previous Talks

Some Testimonials

Handouts

‘History paints the human heart’ Napoleon I

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