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

 

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 Ancestors on the Margins Airedale and Wharfdale Family History Society online

1 June 2026 Biography Club for Society of Genealogists online

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

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

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 Remember Then: memories of 1946-1969 and how to write your own Okehampton Ladies Probus

15 June 2026 The Ill, the Impoverished, the Illegitimate and the Insane: researching our marginalised ancestors Park District U3A Family History Network online

24 June 2026 Occupational Hazards: the working lives of our ancestors  Norfolk Family History Society online

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

21 July 2026 Preserving the Past for the Future Family Historian Zoom Group 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

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 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

18 November 2027 Would you have survived the C17th?  Buckland Brewer History Group

19 November 2026 Putting your Ancestors in their Place: ten steps to a one-place study Farnham U3A

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

8 December 2026 Waltham Forest Family History Society Topic TBA

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

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 

2027 Date TBA  Are you Sitting Comfortably: writing and telling your family history 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

September 2027 Women’s Lives on Farms

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

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