Lesley Plant

'My Churchley Family' - From 1300 – 2019: A typical West Midlands Family A talk by Richard Churchley Richard Churchley is an experienced local historian, specialising in areas of Worcestershire, Warwickshire and North Gloucestershire. He has researched the history of his own family and that of other families, specialising in the use of records from 1550 to 1914, mainly in the west midlands region, but also undertaking research elsewhere in England and also in Ireland and Wales.

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. ABM & 'The Blind Postmaster General and the Suffragist' This meeting will be preceded by the ABM which should take no time at all. This will be followed with a talk by Alan Godfrey FRPSL. The story of the lives of Henry Fawcett…

Looking for Answers... A family quest A talk by John Berkeley OBE

Summer Social This evening will be accompanied by our usual summer refreshments of strawberries and cream with drinkies.

A talk by John Frearson Wimereux 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 and military history - and something of a wider view of WWI Hospitals, and with additional illustration from some of the 150 postcards that he sent home.

Heir Hunting: A Family Historian turned Professional Probate Researcher tells us more A talk by Helen Ball BA MCLIP FPAR  

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 I could focus on Kenilworth families if you like and perhaps share some of the sources I use. I also like to bring women to the fore and show how they were central to creating these family networks (as with the Dugdale paper) so I can emphasise…