Dr Nick Barratt is an author, broadcaster and historian best known for his work on BBC’s Who Do You Think You Are. He is the Executive Director of Student Journey at Royal Holloway, University of London, a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a teaching fellow at the University of Dundee and a visiting fellow at the Open University. Nick is the President of the Hampshire Genealogical Society, and a past President of the Family History Federation.

This talk examines the key sources that you'd use to trace industrial labourers and a variety of professions linked to coal mining, factory workers and transportation networks, and find out more about their ways of life.

This event is for members only and registration opens on 1st January, when the ‘Register [Individual]’ button will show on the bottom left of the Event details on the FHSC website for you to click and then process your registration, you will receive an email confirmation. Registration will close on 19th January

The zoom links/meeting protocol will be forwarded the day before the talk.  If you run into any difficulties with this, then please contact us on the dedicated seminar email address – . The Seminar series is co-ordinated by Margaret Spate, Jean Laidlaw and Margaret Roberts and ALL correspondence, queries etc should be sent to the dedicated email address.