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Wolverhampton: The Story of Carribee Island
Wolverhampton The Terry Harding Room, Perton Civic Centre, Church Road, Perton,, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, United KingdomIn Victorian times Carribee Island was a notorious part of Wolverhampton, home to the city's Irish migrants. The neighbourhood was stigmatized as a problem space using public health language that […]
Birmingham: Society Conference and AGM
Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United KingdomFamily History Day incorporating Annual General Meeting An All day event with Speakers Sharon Hintze and Beverley Walker. Programme Timings – 09.30 – Doors Open & Registration 10:00 – Welcome […]
North Staffs Group Research / help evening
St. John’s Centre St. John’s Centre, 122 Newcastle Rd. Trent Vale, Stoke on Trent, United KingdomAGM and Informal help or research evening. Committee Members have access to numerous items in our digital library and to subscription websites. Members free but we welcome visitors but ask […]
Kenilworth: Child Migration – Not one of our better decisions!
Kenilworth Centre, Abbey End, Kenilworth, Cv8 1QJ Abbey End, Kenilworth, United KingdomSpeaker - Stephen Dyer This talk looks at the long history of British child emgration schemes up to 1967 when some 150,000 children were sent overseas to settle and grow […]
Stourbridge Group – The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Stourbridge St. Peter's Church Hall, Pedmore, West Midlands, United KingdomThe Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark, record and […]
North Staffs Group Research / help evening
St. John’s Centre St. John’s Centre, 122 Newcastle Rd. Trent Vale, Stoke on Trent, United KingdomInformal help or research evening. Committee Members have access to numerous items in our digital library and to subscription websites. Members free but we welcome visitors but ask for a […]
Birmingham: Early 20th. Century Family and Social History Research
Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United KingdomEarly 20th. Century Family and Social History Research Presenter - Stephen Dyer The 1920s & 1930s was an era of defining events that would change the course of many families […]
Kenilworth: Charles Dickens, Warwickshire & the Great Jennens Case
Kenilworth Centre, Abbey End, Kenilworth, Cv8 1QJ Abbey End, Kenilworth, United KingdomSpeaker - Laurence Ince Laurence is from Solihull, a member of Solihull Local History Circle, and has been working for many years on family history, particularly of his wife’s family, […]
Wolverhampton: John Wilkinson – part two
Wolverhampton The Terry Harding Room, Perton Civic Centre, Church Road, Perton,, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, United KingdomJoin us for this, the second part of a presentation from March 2025, about John “Iron-Mad” Wilkinson by Richard Sells The adult Wilkinson was involved from the start in the […]
Birmingham: Country House Libraries
Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United KingdomCountry house libraries and a case study of the library at Linley Wood. Presenter - JJ Heath-Caldwell In the 1700s and 1800s many of the old English gentry families amassed […]
