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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
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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
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| 3rd April 2020 |
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
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| 5th June 2020 |
Jim Worgan and Lloyd Boardman |
Coal Mining in North Staffordshire at the time of the Diglake Disaster 1895
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| 7th August 2020 |
Mervyn Edwards |
Cranks, Characters and Queer Fish of North Staffordshire |
| 2nd October 2020 |
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.
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| 27th November 2020 |
Philip Morgan |
Audley Houses and Farms 1910-1945
This talk is based on Dr Morgan’s work on the 1910 Lloyd George Doomsday Survey and the 1940 Farms Survey. |
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