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- 10th March 2022
We have been approached about running some skills-expanding training courses on an introduction to, and using, GIS (Geographic Information System). This is the first of the courses – An Introduction to GIS which will run Sat 26 March 10am to approximately 1:15pm. We will be covering the following topics: Overview: What is GIS? Glossary of terms, acronyms,...
- 30th May 2021
We've new online Family History workshops coming in June and July. Get help in starting or restarting family history, with tips from many years experience of helping people in the searchroom and answering question.
- 8th September 2020
Looking to bring history topics to life with a local slant? We are looking at the coming term and wanted to let you know what we have available to help you with local resources for your history lessons. With the current situation we know that things are very different. Our normal workshops are paused, and...
- 12th February 2020
We are running another of our 3 part Starting Family History workshops shortly, helping people to begin looking into their family tree. We regularly get people come to our archive desk and ask us how they can begin their family history. It may be inspired by reminiscing with family members, seeing programmes like Who Do...
- 21st January 2020
Our new events guide for 2020 is now out! Details can also be found here on website at www.explorethepast.co.uk/events along with links for bookings. We’re repeating many of our popular workshops, helping people start their research or to expand and introduce new sources. Following the success of the Reading Latin in Old Documents workshop we...
- 23rd August 2019
Our autumn events programme will be starting shortly. You can download our leaflet here. WAAS Events Autumn 2019 and we’ve images below. We’re repeating many of our popular workshops for helping you get started with family, house or local history. We’ll have another couple of tours too where you can come behind the scenes. There are...
- 13th June 2019
The last in our Exploring Archives series looks at schools records, and takes place Wed 26 June 2-4pm. People are fascinated by these, whether they relate to a school you attended, looking for your ancestors, investigating your local school or generally just delving into the archives looking for stories. We’ll have examples of the some...
- 17th May 2019
The next of our Explore Archives workshops is all about the Poor Law and Workhouses. It’s a topic that may bring to mind Oliver Twist (although certain details Dickens used were wrong) or you may remember an elderly relative. There were two times of the poor Law, old and new, and we’ll look at what...
- 10th April 2019
Our 2019 series of Exploring Archives workshops will begin with Wills on Wednesday 24th April. Wills are a fascinating but underused source in our collections, which can help with family, local or house history. They are also a great source of stories. One of our wills has the earliest mention of a fountain pen. Another...
- 8th January 2019
Happy New Year! We know this is a time when many people are looking at doing something new or picking up something they started but had to put on hold. Family and house history are amongst these things and each January we have people coming to The Hive asking us how to begin their search,...