What's On

10 June 2025 To be or not to be?  The West of England Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb - a second OPS? an online talk by Helen Shields for the Society for One Place Studies​

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11 June 2025 The West of England Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb an online talk by Helen Shields for Devon Family History Society 

 

​​12 June 2025 Milkmaids, Munitions Workers, Milliners and Match Girls: women at work an online talk by Janet Few for Ashland Library 

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16 June 2025 Women's Lives on the Farm an online talk by Janet Few for Alde Valley Family History Group

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3 July 2025 Bonnets, Bobbins, Beading and Buttony an online talk by Janet Few for Society of Genealogists 

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4 July 2025 A Few Forgotten Women a talk by Janice Brinley Codd for U3A History Group

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8 July 2025 Besoms, Battledores, Bedsteads and Bum Rolls: the role of women in the seventeenth century an online talk by Janet Few for Nuneaton and North Warwickshire Family History Society

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11 July Forgotten Women Friday Women of 1819

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19-21 September 2025 Secrets and Lies Conference includes Oh Dear, What can the matter be? Auntie Jo’s lost in the Family Tree from Margaret Robert and Doxies, Dolly-mops and Dressmakers: the history of prostitution 1780-1930 and Fallen Women or Vulnerable Girls? from Janet Few

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22 September 2025 Putting your Female Ancestors into Context start of a 5 week online course led by Janet Few for Pharos Tutors 

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10 October 2025 Educating the Deaf from 1826 - a collaborative research project an online talk by Helen Shields for Rydale Family History Group

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11 October 2025 International Day of the Girl

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13 October 2025 Bonnets, Bobbins, Beading and Buttony an online talk by Janet Few for  Oxfordshire Family History Society 

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14 October 2025 The Ill, the Impoverished, the Illegitimate and the Insane: researching our marginalised ancestors an online talk by Janet Few for Buckinghamshire Family History Society 

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16 October 2025 Forgotten Women: tracing the marginalised women on your family tree an online talk by Janet Few for Hillingdon Family History Society 

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17 October 2025 Forgotten Women Friday Women working in the Northern Irish Linen Industry

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5 November 2025 A Few Forgotten Women a talk by Janice Brinley Codd for U3A Local History Group

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25 November 2025 Milkmaids, Munitions Workers, Milliners and Match Girls: women at work an online talk by Janet Few for Wiltshire Family History Society

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27 November 2025 Bonnets, Bobbins, Beading and Buttony: English women’s work in the home industries an online talk by Janet Few for Devon Family History Society 

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17 December 2025 The Ill, the Impoverished, the Illegitimate and the Insane: researching our marginalised ancestors an online talk by Janet Few for Nottinghamshire Family History Society

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4 July 2026 Researching Women a workshop by Margaret Roberts for Devon Family History Society 

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9-11 October 2026 Devon Family History Society 50th Birthday Residential Conference. The Sunday, which is International Day of the Girl, will be devoted to presentation with a female focus, including those from Helen Shields and Margaret Roberts