... with Summer Refreshments Natural Daughters and Deserted Children: Jane Austen, Maria Edgeworth and Eighteenth-Century Illegitimacy Speaker: Dr Kate Croft Jane Austen and Maria Edgeworth were among the most popular authors of the early 1800s. Today, Austen is widely remembered for her witty, romantic novels, while Edgeworth has faded from mainstream readership. Yet both writers […]

How DNA Broke Down a Brick Wall Speaker: Jan Daniells Jan has been hunting her family for a while now; and she has successfully used DNA to break though a brick wall on one line. She is a retired school teacher, based in Shropshire, with family in Kenilworth, so maybe there are more connections to […]

A Private War: The Diaries of Frederick George Draper 1939-1945 Speaker: Carol Draper Carol's father kept a journal throughout his WW2 service, a first-hand account of a young man's experiences of war. He was conscripted as a Private in the Royal Leicestershire Regiment and travelled through Egypt, Trans Jordan, Libya, Ceylon, India and finally as […]