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The website War Memorials Online brings together for the first time information on the UK’s war memorials held by the leading experts, providing a snapshot of war memorials across the country. It will also provide an unprecedented opportunity for the public to upload images of war memorials and log concerns for the conservation of these important community and historical sources for future generations.

2013 GROUP MEETINGS

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BURIALS INDEX

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Buckinghamshire Family History Society Open Day

Saturday 27th July 2013, 10am to 4pm

The Grange School, Wendover Way, Aylesbury, HP21 7NH.
Research facilities will include our names database, and Parish Register, People, and Places libraries. Sales of Parish Register transcripts and other research aids. Expert advice; guest societies and local heritage groups; suppliers of data CDs, maps, software, archival materials and more.
Admission free, with free parking at the venue.
Further information, including a full list of those attending, can be found at www.bucksfhs.org.uk

COULD YOU POSSIBLY HELP ?

I’m putting together a book for Pen & Sword on Leicester in the Great War. I’ve got a lot of photos of soldiers, but I need photos of women who were munitions workers, pictures relating to Leicester industry in WW1, fund raising events and that kind of thing.

Matthew Richardson Matthew.Richardson@gov.im

BELGRAVE CEMETERY

FORTHCOMING EVENTS – 2013

SATURDAY 25 MAY “MORN CHORUS” WALK

BELGRAVE CEMETERY 10.00 AM

BRING BINOCULARS AND WEAR SUITABLE CLOTHING.

FREE TO THE PUBLIC (NO NEED TO PRE-BOOK).

GREENACRES WILL PUT TEA AND COFFEE ON AFTERWARDS.

Saturday 8 June. Belgrave Cemetery Summer Open Day

10.00 am - 3.00 pm

There will be the FOBCG record information available together with cake, book, plant and bric-a-brac stalls, plus refreshments.

Sandra Moore will take two Cemetery

Walks/Talks at 11.00 am and 2.00 pm. - Dressed in Victorian costume

Coming Soon....

New Members Only Area

TO CELEBRATE THE 40TH ANNIVERSARIES OF THE FEDERATION OF FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETIES & THE LRFHS IN 2014

WE ARE JOINING TOGETHER TO COMMEMORATE THE 100TH

ANNIVERSARY OF THE START OF

WORLD WAR 1

19th To 23rd MAY 2014

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NATIONAL ARCHIVES COACH TRIPS

WITH LRFHS & WOODS COACHES

FULL DETAILS CLICK HERE

YOU CAN NOW BOOK BY E-MAIL kewtrips@lrfhs.org.uk

NEXT TRIP SATURDAY 1ST JUNE 2013

WE CAN ALSO DROP OFF AT KEW GARDENS

NEW SERVICE - BOOK BY PAYPAL

NEW PUBLICATION NOW AVAILABLE

“CHAMPION OF THE PEOPLE”

THE BIOGRAPHY OF ORSON WRIGHT

BUILDER OF SOUTH WIGSTON & MUCH MORE

FULL DETAILS CLICK HERE

THE "ORSON WRIGHT TRAIL"

TO COMMEMORATE THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY

OF THE DEATH OF ORSON WRIGHT

SATURDAY 15TH JUNE 2013

STARTING POINT AT THE METHODIST CHURCH, BLABY ROAD, SOUTH WIGSTON

10.00AM ASSEMBLE FOR 10.15AM START

A GUIDED WALK THROUGH THE TOWN

WITH AN EXPLANATION OF HOW SOUTH WIGSTON CAME TO BE BUILT BY ONE MAN

THE WALK STARTS AND FINISHES AT THE CHURCH

APPROXIMATELY 1 HOUR DURATION

AT THE END OF THE WALK RETURN TO THE CHURCH

FOR LIGHT REFRESHMENTS(Served At A Modest Charge)

FOLLOWED WITH A TALK BY PETER COUSINS

ON THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF ORSON WRIGHT AFTER THE BUILDING OF SOUTH WIGSTON

PRICE £2.00WHICH INCLUDES THE WALK, A LEAFLET/MAP AND A TALK BY PETER COUSINS

THE EVENT WILL FINISH BY 12.00 NOON

TO BOOK TELEPHONE ANN COUSINS 0116 288 4638

THE 2013 EAST MIDLANDS ORAL HISTORY DAY

IS ON THE SUBJECT OF ‘PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE’ AND WILL BE HELD AT EMOHA, 1 SALISBURY RD, LEICESTER ON WEDNESDAY 26TH JUNE 2013.

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Leicester Oral History Archive starting the formal recording of oral histories in the city.

As we look back on the achievements of the last 30 years we can also take stock of what we are doing at the moment and look forward to what might happen in the future. As usual, we have a variety of interesting speakers including:

Wendy Freer on using digital sound in small museums

Dr Simon Dixon on the ‘digital humanities’

Roger Kitchen on the work of the ‘Living Archive’

in Milton Keynes.

A full timetable will be distributed closer to the day but

the times will be approx. 10am to 4pm.

While drinks will be available, lunch will not be provided and it should be noted that there is no disabled access to the room

we will be using.

To cover costs there will be an admission charge of £5

(£3 for students, retired, unwaged).

For further information or to book a place

contact Colin Hyde at emoha@le.ac.uk or tel: 0116 2525065.

This event is a partnership between the East Midlands Oral History Archive and the Oral History Society.