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Birmingham: How We Got Here – the story of back to back housing in Birmingham
Birmingham: How We Got Here – the story of back to back housing in Birmingham
How We Got Here – the story of back to back housing in Birmingham. Presenters - David and Pam Humphries This talk by husband and wife team David and Pam tells the story of back to back housing in Birmingham. Find out what was happening in the Town of Birmingham in the 18th & 19th […]
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Talk about Etruria Bone Mill
Talk about Etruria Bone Mill
Many people living or working in the Stoke on Trent Area will be aware of the Etruria Bone Mill. Now an industrial Museum. Bernard Lovatt is going to tell us all about it. Members free we welcome visitors but ask for a donation of £1.50
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Kenilworth: Researching & Writing the Mourning Brooch Trilogy
Kenilworth: Researching & Writing the Mourning Brooch Trilogy
Speaker - Jean Renwick Jean Renwick’s talk reveals years of research behind her family saga, The Mourning Brooch, based upon the lives of real Yorkshire people who lived in the second half of the 19th and first half of the 20th century. After inheriting a mourning brooch, Jean was intrigued to know who was Elizabeth Addy, commemorated in […]
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London: “British Newspapers as Historical Resources”
London: “British Newspapers as Historical Resources”
“British Newspapers as Historical Resources” A talk by Denise Bates. Themed around family history (though the main principles can be applied to other topics) this talk covers locating newspapers with potentially relevant information, searching effectively, identifying an ancestor and using the varied content of newspapers to understand something about the world in which they lived. […]
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Stourbridge Group – The Rise and Fall of Worcestershire’s Witley Court
Stourbridge Group – The Rise and Fall of Worcestershire’s Witley Court
Talk - The Rise and Fall of Worcestershire's Witley Court A Royal Palace created by the Earls of Dudley before its untimely demise. Witley Court was once one of the great country houses of England. An impressive early 17th-century mansion here was transformed in three remodellings: twice by the Foley family in the 18th century […]
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Wolverhampton: The Story of Carribee Island
Wolverhampton: The Story of Carribee Island
In Victorian times Carribee Island was a notorious part of Wolverhampton, home to the city's Irish migrants. The neighbourhood was stigmatized as a problem space using public health language that was shot through with racial and social stereotypes. In fact, it was home to ordinary people doing ordinary things. Once the myths that were layered […]