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  • Stourbridge Group – “Titanic – The Midlands Connections”

    Stourbridge St. Peter's Church Hall, Pedmore, West Midlands, United Kingdom
    Stourbridge Meetings

    "Titanic - The Midlands Connections" The Speaker - Andrew Lound Andrew has been presenting public lectures and staging exhibitions for nearly 50 years and has participated in thousands of events. […]

  • Wolverhampton: John Wilkinson – part one

    Wolverhampton The Terry Harding Room, Perton Civic Centre, Church Road, Perton,, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, United Kingdom
    Wolverhampton Meetings

    John "Iron-Mad" Wilkinson was an English industrialist who pioneered the manufacture of cast iron and the use of cast-iron goods during the Industrial Revolution. John Wilkinson started life inauspiciously in […]

  • Talk about Etruria Bone Mill

    St. John’s Centre St. John’s Centre, 122 Newcastle Rd. Trent Vale, Stoke on Trent, United Kingdom
    North Staffs Meetings

    Many people living or working in the Stoke on Trent Area will be aware of the Etruria Bone Mill. Now an industrial Museum. Bernard Lovatt is going to tell us […]

  • Kenilworth: Researching & Writing the Mourning Brooch Trilogy

    Kenilworth Centre, Abbey End, Kenilworth, CV8 1QJ Abbey End, Kenilworth, United Kingdom
    Kenilworth Meetings

    Speaker - Jean Renwick Jean Renwick’s talk reveals years of research behind her family saga, The Mourning Brooch, based upon the lives of real Yorkshire people who lived in the second […]

  • London: “British Newspapers as Historical Resources”

    London Family History Centre 64-68 Princes Gate, Exhibition Road, London, United Kingdom
    London Meetings

    “British Newspapers as Historical Resources” A talk by Denise Bates. Themed around family history (though the main principles can be applied to other topics) this talk covers locating newspapers with […]

  • Stourbridge Group – The Rise and Fall of Worcestershire’s Witley Court

    Stourbridge St. Peter's Church Hall, Pedmore, West Midlands, United Kingdom
    Stourbridge Meetings

    Talk - The Rise and Fall of Worcestershire's Witley Court A Royal Palace created by the Earls of Dudley before its untimely demise. Witley Court was once one of the […]

  • Wolverhampton: The Story of Carribee Island

    Wolverhampton The Terry Harding Room, Perton Civic Centre, Church Road, Perton,, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, United Kingdom
    Wolverhampton Meetings

    In 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 […]