📅 Upcoming Events
Confessions of a Taphophile: From Curious Visitor to Compulsive Researcher
Date: Thursday, 18 June 2026
Speaker: AWFHS Committee Member
Location: Zoom
Speaker Steve Miller: It always begins innocently enough — a quiet wander through a cemetery, a quick look at a headstone, maybe a photograph or two. Before you know it, you are decoding inscriptions, comparing burial registers, and wondering where...
From log cabin to the Palace of Westminster and other stories
Date: Thursday, 17 September 2026
Speaker: Helen Baggott
Location: Zoom
Messages written before WW1 reveal stories from both sides of the Atlantic. And finally, a sobering story of how quickly disasters become old news....
Family History and the Media: Behind the Scenes of Who Do You Think You Are?
Date: Monday, 5 October 2026
Speaker: Nick Barratt
Location: Zoom
Exploring the impact of WDYTYA on how we research our family stories with an explanation on how the show was conceived and produced....
Progressing your Family HIstory
Date: Thursday, 15 October 2026
Speaker: Debbie Bradley
Location: Zoom
Following on from the Beginning your Family History this talk concentrates what records are available to view beyond Civil Registration and Census. Where do you go from here? Where can you find these records? The talk looks at these records and wh...
The Cost of War - The History and Role of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Date: Monday, 2 November 2026
Speaker: Brian Joyce
Location: Zoom
The talk on the history and role of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) will illustrate how the CWGC ensures that the 1.7 million men and women of the Commonwealth that died in the world wars are commemorated across 23,000 sites in over 150...