Our scheduled speaker, Richard Churchley, would prefer to give his talk live, rather than via Zoom. We will therefore be postponing his talk, ''My Churchley Family' - From 1300 – 2019: A typical West Midlands Family' to another date. Instead, we are very pleased to announce a returning speaker: Marriage law and practice in the […]

Parliament Square's first monument to a woman, Millicent Fawcett, and also its first sculpture by a woman, Gillian Wearing, marks 100 years since some women won the right to vote and was unveiled on 24 April 2018. 'The Blind Postmaster General and the Suffragist' A talk by Alan Godfrey FRPSL. The story of the lives […]

Our scheduled speaker, John Berkeley OBE, would prefer to give his talk live, rather than via Zoom. We will therefore be postponing his talk, 'Looking for Answers... a family quest' to another date. Instead, we are very pleased to announce: My Criminal Past A talk by Paul Millington of the Malvern Family History Society. The […]

A talk by John Frearson Maundy Rodgers: A doctor abroad Wimeraux and Amara during WWI Maundy was an Assistant Surgeon 4th Class from India, and with his hospital served in France in the seaside town of Wimereux  in WWI from 1914 and later went Mesopotamia.  He was mentioned in Dispatches.  The talk gives a family […]

A talk by Vanessa Morgan NOTE: Our scheduled speaker, Helen Ball, who was going to talk to us about Heir-hunting, would prefer to give her talk in-person, so according to the new talk schedule, this will be postponed until the Spring/Summer 2022 (date TBC). Instead, Vanessa Morgan has agreed to do a talk for us, […]

WITH APOLOGIES, THIS MEETING HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO BEREAVEMENT Re-scheduled for 2022 - further details will be available in due course Family Networks in Elizabethan England A talk by Cathryn Enis, Honorary Research Fellow at the College of Arts and Law, University of Birmingham Cathryn writes, "I tend to specialise in family networks so […]

A talk by Mary Bodfish. Mary hails from Smethwick, West Midlands, and has been researching her family history - and more! - for many years, and giving talks for over 20 years. Our forebears revelled in bull-baitings, cockfighting, boxing matches and abominable drunkenness; especially in the Black Country. The boozy, bloody amusements of the working […]

A talk by David Fry, a researcher and author from Coventry, who has been giving talks for over 25 years. David describes this talk: "Twenty years ago a few glass plates turned up at a car boot sale in Warwickshire. This led to the discovery of many more that had been found in the attic […]