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  • Fair at Malvern: The Family History Show

    Malvern Three Counties Showground , United Kingdom

    Three Counties Showground, Malvern on 15th March 2025 Midland Ancestors will be represented Details and alternative costs available HERE

    £8

  • Stourbridge Group – “Titanic – The Midlands Connections”

    Stourbridge St. Peter's Church Hall, Pedmore, West Midlands, United Kingdom

    "Titanic - The Midlands Connections" The Speaker - Andrew Lound Andrew has been presenting public lectures and staging exhibitions for nearly 50 years and has participated in thousands of events. He regularly tours the UK with his Odyssey Dramatic Presentations® and Lectures® being invited back time and again due to popular demand, and now presents […]

  • Wolverhampton: John Wilkinson – part one

    Wolverhampton The Terry Harding Room, Perton Civic Centre, Church Road, Perton,, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

    John "Iron-Mad" Wilkinson was an English industrialist who pioneered the manufacture of cast iron and the use of cast-iron goods during the Industrial Revolution. John Wilkinson started life inauspiciously in 1728, born in a cart as his mother was on her way to market in Workington, Cumbria. The adult Wilkinson was involved from the start […]

  • Birmingham: How We Got Here – the story of back to back housing in Birmingham

    Birmingham & Midland Institute - Kingsley Norris Room 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom

    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

    St. John’s Centre St. John’s Centre, 122 Newcastle Rd. Trent Vale, Stoke on Trent, United Kingdom

    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    

  • Kenilworth: Researching & Writing the Mourning Brooch Trilogy

    Kenilworth Centre, Abbey End, Kenilworth, Cv8 1QJ Abbey End, Kenilworth, United Kingdom

    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 […]

  • London: “British Newspapers as Historical Resources”

    London Family History Centre 64-68 Princes Gate, Exhibition Road, London, United Kingdom

    “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. […]

  • Stourbridge Group – The Rise and Fall of Worcestershire’s Witley Court

    Stourbridge St. Peter's Church Hall, Pedmore, West Midlands, United Kingdom

    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 […]