Audleyfhs Talks

TALKS

updated 11 May 2022

There will be a programme of talks in 2022

Talks take place on the first Friday evening of every alternate month. (Feb, Apr, Jun, Aug, Oct, Dec.)

They are held at the The Methodist Church Hall , starting at 7.30pm prompt and finishing about 9.00pm

These talks are free to members.Non-members are welcome on payment of £1. If you would like to join please visit the Joining Us page.

Please contact Mrs Christine Huxley for additional information.

Programme for 2022

*Date*	*Speaker*	*Title*
4th February 2022	Mervyn Edwards	Cranks, Characters and Queer Fish of North Staffordshire www.merver.co.uk
1st April 2022	Stuart Haywood (of the Welsh Society of North Staffordshire) The speaker, Stuart Haywood, has been promoting his recent book (The Welsh in North Staffordshire) on various English & Welsh facebook pages. What he didn’t expect was for a lady in Australia to contact him regarding an ancestor that had migrated from Anglesey to Hanley, Elias Hughes. She is a direct descendent of a cousin of Elias who was also from Anglesey. She carried out an Object Biography as part of a genealogy course and the object chosen was a moustache cup which links the two cousins. This presentation compares the lives of the two cousins and is based on the joint research by Stuart and his Australian contact.	The Story of a Moustache Cup
27th May 2022	Haydn Thomas Crewe and Nantwich Metal Detecting Society	"Raising Money for Good Causes in the Community - An Introduction to Crewe & Nantwich Metal Detecting Society" poster
5th August 2022	Michael Eardley	Eve and the Audleys
7th October 2022	Philip Morgan Philip Morgan lives in Audley, and for over 35 years taught medieval history and local history at Keele University’	"A Saint and a Sinner from Medieval Audley". Two lives compared – one the subject of a Wordsworth sonnet the other haunted by his role in a murder.
25th Novenber 2022	Philip Leese	TBA

Old Talks

*Date*	*Speaker*	*Title*

3rd February 2017	Andrew Dobraszczyc	A Social History of Apedale Hall Gardens
7th April 2017	Paul Anderton	Local responses to Napoleon’s plans 1803-14: opening a new source for family and local historians.
2nd June 2017	Andy Fear	Blood and Sand:Gladiators in the Roman Empire
4th August 2017	Philip R. Leese	Miners Lives; Social Life of Mining Villages in the 19th & 20th Centuries
6th October 2017	Tim Coltman	The Story of Two Crosses - a presentation on the life of William Coltman VC as told by his great grandson.
1st December 2017	Philip Astley	Staffordshire University Project "Philip Astley"
2nd February 2018	Dr Robin Stud	Potters and the Abolition of the Slave Trade
6th April 2018	Julie Bagnall	What to Do with 323 Post Cards ?
1st June 2018	Mervyn Edwards	Potteries Parks
3rd August 2018	J Eardley	Letter from Poitou - The Remarkable Story of a Medieval Audley Woman
5th October 2018	Steve Booth	The Lost Treasure of Stone - the Mystery of the Unique Privy Seal
7th December 2018	Dr Chris Harrison	A Baronial Household in The Age of Elizabeth
1st February 2019	Philip Leese	"Local People are History or Local Places in History ? Which Side are You On ?"
5th April 2019	Mervyn Edwards	The North Staffordshire Miner www.merver.co.uk
7th June 2019	Peter Lead	Early 18th CenturyAudley Entrepreneurs and The Spread of The Newcomen Steam Engine
2nd August 2019	Tony Bostock	Place Names and Field Names: A source for local history. www.tonybostock.com (Names of towns and villages, and those of fields, hold clues to interpreting the past. In this talk the meanings of local names will be discussed and how they can assist in the understanding the local history of an area)
4th October 2019	Andrew Hunt - (Silverdale Country Park Ranger)	Abandoned Colliery to Wildlife Haven www.silverdalecountrypark.org.uk
29th November 2019 note change of date	Graham Dodd	A Crewe Factory Girl – the life of Ada Nield Chew (The story of Ada Nield who came to prominence locally when she fought for improved conditions for those working in local clothing factories at the turn of the nineteenth century. She campaigned on behalf of the Labour movement, trades unions and for women’s suffrage before running her own business).
7thFebruary 2020	Steve Booth	The Golden Age of Stagecoaching
3rd April 2020 CANCELLED	Barbara Andrew	Fanny Deakin: The Silverdale campaigner. Feminist, Communist, councillor and Alderman who was a the champion of the local working class for 50 years
5th June 2020 CANCELLED	Jim Worgan and Lloyd Boardman	Coal Mining in North Staffordshire at the time of the Diglake Disaster 1895
7th August 2020 CANCELLED	Mervyn Edwards	Cranks, Characters and Queer Fish of North Staffordshire www.merver.co.uk
2nd October 2020 CANCELLED	Tony Bostock	My Genealogical Journey. An account of Tony’s researches into the Bostock name conducted over many decades. The talk covers the methods used along with the problems encountered. This is an interesting and amusing talk from which family historians might gather some ideas for themselves.