What’s On at Midland Ancestors –
Kenilworth Meetings
Kenilworth Group ABM + ‘The Last Letter I Ever Received; Epistles, Emotions and the Family Archive in Eighteenth Century England’
Kenilworth Kenilworth Centre, Abbey End,, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, United KingdomThe Kenilworth ABM will take place at the beginning of this meeting, to be followed by Speaker: Dr Imogen Peck, FRHistS, FHEA - Assistant Professor in British History, Dept. of History, University of Birmingham This is an in-person meeting held at The Kenilworth Centre
Kenilworth: ‘Modelling Kinship: Are we related?’
Kenilworth Kenilworth Centre, Abbey End,, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, United KingdomSpeaker: Dr ALan C Smith This is an in-person meeting at The Kenilworth Centre
Kenilworth: ‘Unboxing the Family Archive – An Interactive Workshop ’ – SPEAKER CANCELLED
Kenilworth Kenilworth Centre, Abbey End,, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, United KingdomUPDATE (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 […]
Kenilworth: SPEAKER CANCELLED – Members’ Meeting
Kenilworth Kenilworth Centre, Abbey End,, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, United KingdomThe 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
Kenilworth: ‘The Adventurous History of Sabrina Sidney, 1757 – 1843’
Kenilworth Kenilworth Centre, Abbey End,, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, United KingdomSpeaker: Dr Kate Croft, CWMH - University of Birmingham This is an in-person meeting held at The Kenilworth Centre
Kenilworth: Christmas Social and Members’ Meeting
Kenilworth Kenilworth Centre, Abbey End,, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, United KingdomKenilworth: ‘Freedom of Information for Genealogy’ (ONLINE)
Online Event Using ZoomSpeaker: Richard Holt BA (Hons) This talk discusses the Freedom of Information Act and using FOI requests for family history research. Richard will go through how to make a request to a public authority, what to expect, what types of record might be held, and what to do if you think the public authority has […]
Kenilworth: ‘Iron, Coal and Roses: the story of a Victorian Black Country family of iron masters and their workforce’ (ONLINE)
Online Event Using ZoomSpeaker: Keith Robinson (Rescheduled from Oct 2023) This is an ONLINE meeting When: Weds Feb 14, 2024 19:30 London Click here to register in advance for this meeting After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Kenilworth: ‘Bloody Kenilworth’ (LIVE)
Kenilworth Kenilworth Centre, Abbey End,, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, United KingdomSpeaker: 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 […]
Kenilworth: Annual Business Meeting followed by ‘WWll Incident Reports for Warwickshire’ (LIVE)
Kenilworth Kenilworth Centre, Abbey End,, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, United KingdomSpeakers: 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 […]
Kenilworth: Summer Social (LIVE)
Kenilworth Kenilworth Centre, Abbey End,, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, United KingdomFurther detail to be confirmed
Kenilworth: ‘Matters of Life & Death: Letters from the men at the front in the 2nd Anglo-Boer War’ (LIVE)
Kenilworth Kenilworth Centre, Abbey End,, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, United KingdomSpeaker: 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 […]