What’s On at Midland Ancestors –
Birmingham: The Staffordshire Enclosure Award Maps Project
Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West MidlandsNote Change of Date due to Rail Strike The Staffordshire Enclosure Award Maps Project Presenter - Richard Totty Richard is Chairman Friends of Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Archives (FoSSA) which successfully applied for a grant from the Midland Ancestors’ Kemp Legacy Fund. Their proposal was to prepare digital images of Staffordshire Enclosure (or Inclosure) […]
Group AGM followed by : Midland Ancestors – The first 60 years
Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West MidlandsMidland Ancestors – The First 60 Years Presenter - Mike Sharpe For our diamond anniversary lecture, Trustee and Professional Genealogist, Mike Sharpe looks back on the Society’s first sixty years. He tracks the Society’s growth from its formation on a wintery night in 1963, through the boom years of the 1970s and ‘80s; to the […]
Birmingham: How We Lived Then
Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West MidlandsHow We Lived Then Presenter - Mary Bodfish This talk is based on probate inventories with Mary making particular use of the inventory of a West Bromwich man who died in 1700 to give a guided tour of his house and farm; it also includes the history of probate documents with an element of family […]
Birmingham: Mobility in Your Family History
Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West MidlandsMobility in Your Family History Presenter - Dr. Mike Haynes Human beings are always restless. Throughout history we have moved in different ways. We can migrate to live in different places. But mobility is something different. It is about our journeys to work, to school, the trips to the shops, our holidays. Mobility takes us […]
National Archives Introductory Session
Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West MidlandsNational Archives Familiarisation Intended for those who have possibly wanted to visit the National Archives, found their website a little daunting and then left it at that. Also for those who have visited perhaps just once and felt they have not had the best out of it. This is a group participation live computer assessment […]
Birmingham: Heraldry in an African Context
Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West MidlandsHeraldry in an African Context - The Peplow Memorial Lecture Presenter - Andrew Cusack In this talk Andrew will explore how the European system of heraldry has developed in Africa, particularly by exploring the arms of the Dutch colonial administrator Jan van Riebeeck and how the elements of his coat of arms have been reinterpreted and […]
Birmingham: The Wednesbury Workhouse and the Parish Poor
Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West MidlandsThe Wednesbury Workhouse and the Parish Poor: 1750-1900 Presenter - Keith Robinson The talk will tell the stories of people whose voices are often unheard. It will reveal the lives of those who were in the Wednesbury Workhouse and in that of neighbouring West Bromwich. It will look at the children who were indentured as […]
Birmingham: West Midlands Police Museum
Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West MidlandsThe West Midlands Police Museum: history and archives Presenter - Corrine Brazier Corinne is the Heritage Manager at West Midlands Police Museum, now located at the former Central Custody Block, the Lock-Up, in Steelhouse Lane, Birmingham. Re-opening on 9 April 2022, two years had been spent refurbishing the museum which is spread across three floors. […]
Birmingham: The Royal Warwickshire Regiment 14-18 In Books & Cartoons
Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West MidlandsThe Royal Warwickshire Regiment 1914-1918 Books and Cartoons Presenter - Paul Jacques and David Vaux Men from the RWR played a major role on the Western Front in WWI. The regiment lost 11,610 men; six were awarded the Victoria Cross for outstanding bravery. Paul and David’s presentation and display will raise our awareness of […]
