UPDATE (12/09/2023):  Dr Imogen Peck is unable to attend this session, due to being unwell. This session will be rescheduled for 2024. Instead we will have a Members' 'Show and Tell' evening. Bring along material from your own family collections, and we will have a discussion about what your family has chosen to keep, how […]

The talk, ‘Iron, Coal and Roses: The story of a Victorian Black Country family of ironmasters and their workforce’ (Speaker: Keith Robinson) has been cancelled due to ill-health.  We will endeavour to re-book in 2024. This meeting will now be a Members' meeting This is an in-person meeting held at The Kenilworth Centre

Speaker: Dr Kate Croft, CWMH - University of Birmingham This is an in-person meeting held at The Kenilworth Centre

Speaker: Adam Wood, author, speaker and tour guide, true crime historian Join local true crime historian Adam Wood for an illustrated talk on the seedier side of Kenilworth, as he reveals misdeeds committed between 1790 and 1928. Learn how the former caretaker of the Kenilworth Baths on Abbey Fields, bristling with resentment over his dismissal, made […]

Speakers: Peter Coulls & John Willock John Willock and Peter Coulls have been working on the’Incident Reports’ held by WCRO for some time. The information within provides an insight into the development of WWII at a local level. The accuracy of the reports has proved interesting and expanded certain aspects of WWII knowledge and its […]

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Speaker: Brian Stote Brian's great great grandmother sent food parcels and gifts to men from the Yorkshire town of Otley who were stationed in South Africa during the Boer War conflict of 1899-1902. Some of them sent letters to her, which were collected into a scrapbook, relating their experiences during battles, troop movements and daily […]

Speaker: John Frearson The story of four generations of a Leicestershire Family. Great-grandfather Ashton raised cattle in Leicestershire for the London market. He had 14 children – and three brothers married three sisters. This is the story of the struggles of one branch of the family that moved to Bedfordshire in the judgemental late 19th […]

Speaker: Paul Wilkins Paul is the founder of The Family Tree Tracers,Dorector of Family History Detectives and delivers family history courses at WCRO as well as giving talks and teaching genealogy, and writing for WDYTYA? Magazine