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Early 20th. Century Family and Social History Research Presenter - Stephen Dyer The 1920s & 1930s was an era of defining events that would change the course of many families for decades to come, leading up to the 1921 Census which was released in January 2022. Stephens talk looks at the effect on the family […]
Speaker - Laurence Ince Laurence is from Solihull, a member of Solihull Local History Circle, and has been working for many years on family history, particularly of his wife’s family, the Holbeches of Alvechurch.
Join us for this, the second part of a presentation from March 2025, about John “Iron-Mad” Wilkinson by Richard Sells The adult Wilkinson was involved from the start in the ‘new’ iron industry, eventually operating nine ironworks including the New Willey Ironworks near Broseley, which was established in 1757. He was a man of huge […]
Country house libraries and a case study of the library at Linley Wood. Presenter - JJ Heath-Caldwell In the 1700s and 1800s many of the old English gentry families amassed considerable collections of books in their country house libraries. These collections were a vast range of books passed down from ancestors, relatives, and friends of […]