‘History matters because it is our collective memory, which is the best weapon against tyranny.’ 

 

1 September 2026 Preserving the Past for the Future Chesterfield and District Family History Society online 

2 September 2026 First Steps to a One-place Study start of a 5 week online course for Pharos Tutors

5 September 2026 Coming Here: Records of Immigrants and Immigration to England C13th-20th centuries Genealogical Society of Queensland online

7 September 2026 A Plague upon all your Houses: epidemic disease and our ancestors Pharos Tutors Anniversary Conference online

7 September 2026 Biography Club for Society of Genealogists online

5 October 2026 Biography Club for Society of Genealogists online

6 October 2026 Remember Then: memories of 1946-1969 and how to write your own Kent Family History Society online

12 October 2026 In Sickness and in Death; researching the ill health and death of your ancestors start of a 5 week online course for Pharos Tutors

4 November 2026 Coffers, Clysters, Comfrey and Coifs: the lives of our seventeenth century ancestors Lifton History Group

7 November 2026 Marginalised Devon Women for the Devonshire Association‘s Proper Maids: More Remarkable Women of Devon Conference 

7 November 2026 Timelines Workshop Devon Family History Society online. Book here.

11 November 2026 Sins as Red as Scarlet: a Devon town in turmoil Raleigh Probus, Budleigh Salterton

12 November 2026 Toleration or Turmoil: English non-conformity and our ancestors Harrogate and Ripon U3A Family History Group online

13 November 2026 Family History Research in Devon online

16 November 2026 Alde Valley Family History Group hybrid Topic TBA

16 November 2026 Discovering your British Family and Local Community in the early C20th start of a 5 week online course for Pharos Tutors

17 November 2026 Exbourne History Society Topic TBC

18 November 2026 Would you have survived the C17th?  Buckland Brewer History Group

23 November 2026 Are you Sitting Comfortably: writing and telling your family history Northamptonshire Family History Society online

24 November 2026 Writing and Publishing your Research for the Society of Genealogists‘ Family History Skills stage 3 course online

26 November 2026 Putting your Ancestors in their Place: ten steps to a one-place study Society of Australian Genealogists online

8 December 2026 Waltham Forest Family History Society Topic TBA

10 December 2026 Christmas Crackers: Christmas traditions and our ancestors London, Westminster and Middlesex Family History Society online

17 December 2026  Occupational Hazards: the working lives of our ancestors Farnham U3A online

6 January 2027 Tulips, Topiary, Tradescanth and Thyme: seventeenth century gardens Bude Gardening Club

7 January 2027 Remember Then: memories of 1946-1969 and how to write your own Northam WI

10 January 2027 Discovering more about your Agricultural Labouring Ancestors start of a 5 week online course for Pharos Tutors

18 January 2027 The Ill, the Impoverished, the Illegitimate and the Insane: researching our marginalised ancestors Sheffield Family History Society online

25 January 2027 A Genealogist’s Nightmare: the Smith family of London Romsey Archway U3A Family & Social History Group online 

2 February 2027 Coffers, Clysters, Comfrey and Coifs: the lives of our seventeenth century ancestors Huddersfield and District Family History Society

22 March 2027 Elusive Ancestors: migration within the British Isles start of a 4 week online course for Pharos Tutors

10 April 2027 Timelines Workshop

13 April 2027 A Plague upon all your Houses: epidemic disease and our ancestors Society for One-Place Studies online

16 April 2027 Remember Then: memories of 1946-1969 and how to write your own Warrington U3A online

10 May 2027 Putting your Female Ancestors into Context start of a 5 week online course for Pharos Tutors 

1 June 2027 Coming Here: Records of Immigrants and Immigration to England C13th-20th centuries Society of Genealogists‘ Family History Skills stage 2 course online

22 June 2027 Doxies, Dolly-mops and Dressmakers: the history of prostitution 1780-1930 Pharos Tutors webinar online

28 June 2027 Are you Sitting Comfortably: writing and telling your family history start of a 5 week online course for Pharos Tutors

September 2027 Women’s Lives on Farms

9 October 2026 Agricultural Labourers Workshop Society of Genealogists online

11 October 2027 First Steps to a One-place Study start of a 5 week online course for Pharos Tutors

17 November 2027 The People who Families Forgot: stories of asylum inmates Rydale Family History Group online

23 November 2027 Writing and Publishing your Research for the Society of Genealogists‘ Family History Skills stage 3 course online

9 December 2027 Coffers, Clysters, Comfrey and Coifs: the lives of our seventeenth century ancestors Exeter Local History Group

 

 

 

Talks and Presentations

Selected Previous Talks

Some Testimonials

Handouts

‘History paints the human heart’ Napoleon I