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

 

2 February 2026 Putting your Female Ancestors into Context start of a 5 week online course for Pharos Tutors 

6 February 2026 Besoms, Battledores, Bedsteads and Bum Rolls: the role of women in the seventeenth century Northam WI 

7 February 2026 Stage Two Family History Course Part 3 Devon Family History Society online

9 February 2026 Coffers, Clysters, Comfrey and Coifs: the lives of our seventeenth century ancestors NHS Retirement Fellowship, Barnstaple

26 February 2026 Rural Communities and their Workers workshop for Society of Genealogists online

28 February 2026 Ancestors on the Margins Aberdeen and North East Scotland Family History Society (Southern Ontario Branch) online

2 March 2026 Biography Club for Society of Genealogists online

9 March 2026 Fallen Women or Vulnerable Girls? East Surrey Family History Society online

Date TBA Would you have survived the Seventeenth Century? Stoke Gabriel WI

15 April 2026 Doxies, Dolly-mops and Dressmakers: the history of prostitution 1780-1930 Ryedale Family History Society online

20 April 2026 Are you Sitting Comfortably: writing and telling your family history start of a 5 week online course for Pharos Tutors

26 April 2026 Preserving the Past for the Future Guild of One-Name Studies conference in person. 

28 April 2026 Women in Travail: childbirth and midwifery 1600-1950 Dorset Family History Society online

29 April 2026 Sins as Red as Scarlet: a Devon town in turmoil The Lustleigh Society

5 May 2026 Barefoot on the Cobbles West Surrey Family History Society online

11 May 2026 The People who Families Forgot: stories of asylum inmates Society of Genealogists Mental Health and Family History Day online

11 May 2026 Airedale and Wharfdale Family History Society online Topic TBA

2 June 2026 Putting your Female Ancestors into Context start of a 5 week online course for Pharos Tutors 

2 June 2026 Coming Here: : Records of Immigrants and Immigration to England C13th-20th centuries Society of Genealogists‘ Family History Skills stage 2 course online

11 June 2026 Putting your Ancestors in their Place: 10 steps to a one-place study North West Kent Family History Society online

15 June 2026 Okehampton Ladies Probus Topic TBA

13 July 2026 Are you Sitting Comfortably: writing and telling your family history Suffolk Family History Society online

14 July 2026 Faith, Fish, Farm or Family: motivations for emigration from North Devon 1830-1900 Braunton U3A local history group

16 July 2026 Ancestors on the Margins

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

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 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 The Ill, the Impoverished, the Illegitimate and the Insane: researching our marginalised 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

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

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

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

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

Talks and Presentations

Selected Previous Talks

Some Testimonials

Handouts

‘History paints the human heart’ Napoleon I