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All About That Place
by Natalie Pithers
Celebrate genealogy and local history with All About That Place brought to you by the Society of Genealogists. Listen to short talks from family historians, local historians and other experts as they explore places, communities, records and the stories connected to them.
Episodes
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Three Days in Court: The Story of Enoch Whitehouse with Rosie Smith
Enoch Whitehouse (1893-1954) was born aboard a canal boat, the youngest of 10 children. Being a transient family who were based on the waterways of England, the Whitehouse family proved tricky to trace through government records. However, a search of the British Newspaper Archive revealed that...
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Hidden in Plain Sight: Eating with the Ancestors with Paul McNeil
Pulpo Negro Alresford Hampshire, sophisticated award winning Spanish Restaurant today, but it hides the ghost of the past literally within its walls. A chance redecoration, and a cryptic inscription is exposed, no one knows its significance, until one day, one lunch, and one Genealogist. Become...
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The Importance of being Harriet with Margaret Roberts
When a respected educator found herself at the centre of a legal confrontation, the tidy narrative of her career became far more complicated. This talk reveals how one courtroom episode reshapes our understanding of a seemingly conventional Victorian life. Margaret is a Fellow of the Royal...
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Strikes and industrial relations in the Port of London with Fiona Keates
Join the Port and River Archivist to see how the Port of London Authority archive can be used to explore the history of strikes and industrial relations at the docks. From the first major strike of 1889 which brought the port to a standstill, to managing the closure of the up-river docks in later...
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All Change? What Happened When the Railway Came to Rillington?
When the York and Scarborough Railway reached the small village of Rillington in 1845, it transformed far more than transport. Drawing on census records, historic maps, newspapers and original archival research, this talk explores how the railway altered the landscape, economy and everyday lives…
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Keepsake Family History: Becoming British in the Himalayas
How can someone feel deeply British before ever setting foot in Britain? In this talk, Sam Savelli, co-founder of Keepsake Family History, explores the story of his grandfather Gilbert, whose childhood took him from Baghdad to India and, eventually, to England. At the heart of his story is St...
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Uncovering Hidden History with Augmented Reality Walking Tours with Daisy Abbott
The Empire Exhibition of 1938 was the last of the large, British imperial-themed exhibitions. Whilst overshadowed by WW2, the Exhibition remains significant and relevant to the study of British social, cultural, economic, industrial, and political history. Today, the 1938 Empire Exhibition…
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Show Time! Making my One-Place-Study public with Alexandra Gilbert
How some random research became refined into a more specifically targeted One-Place-Study, how I took it to the public as part of a nationally organised event, and how I survived to tell the tale! Alexandra Gilbert is a social historian and 30+ years a genealogist. Their ethos is reconfiguring...
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Elizabethan Music Printers with Patrice Connelly
This talk is centred on the title pages used by the Renaissance composer Thomas Morley when he held the music printing patent which gave him a monopoly from 1597 to his death in 1602. The title pages are interesting in themselves, as is the genealogy and the connections between the various music...
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Boom, Bust, and Commuters: The 1,000-Year Evolution of Thatcham
How does an ancient market town transform into a modern commuter hub? This short talk charts Thatcham's landscape, skipping briefly past its prehistoric roots to focus on the last millennium of evolution. Discover how it grew from a Saxon administrative centre and medieval borough, before falling...
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Walking in Marylebone and Paddington in the footsteps of my ancestors with Debbie Bradley
My journey into where may ancestors lived and worked and the things you need to think about before you begin walking in their footsteps. Debbie Bradley is a professional genealogist and speaker. She is a member of AGRA and Administrator of the Family History Federation. Her own family history...
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From Barometers to Borromeo: the legacy of Antonio Mantegani in Wisbech.
At some point in 1819/1820, Swiss national, Antonio Mantegani, arrived in Wisbech to start his career as a hawker of jewellery and trinkets. He progressed to a jewellers and fancy goods shop, at first in Hill Street and then in the High Street; establishing a family business that flourished for...
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Navigating Online Archive Catalogues with Kelly Cornwell
Online Catalogues have transformed access to historical records. Exploring these systems allows us to discover exactly what a repository holds, and how we may view material. However, finding the right document often requires more than a simple keyword search. This talk explores practical…
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Galloping Without a Horse with Margaret Roberts
Beginning with a wonderfully optimistic Victorian invention, this talk explores a contraption that promised health, vigour and fresh air, all without leaving the drawing room. Part exercise machine, part escapist fantasy, the Horse-Action Saddle offers a charming glimpse into a world where...
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Charitable Trust Deeds at The National Archives: A Veritable Treasure Trove for Local and Family Historians with Charlotte Smith
While original trust deeds are more often located in local archives, The National Archives holds an extensive collection of enrolled trust deeds. It has recently completed a project to catalogue two of the key series – C 54 and CHAR 12 – spanning the period 1735 – 1925. Drawing on examples...
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Education, Education, Education with Valerie Brenton
A brief introduction to the resources that will help you identify schools, teachers and pupils as you add more details to a one place study or family history focussing on what was work for some and the best days of their lives for others. Valerie Brenton is a professional genealogist, author and...
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1 Village, 1 Inn, 2000 Years of History with Paul McNeil
The Three Cups Inn Stockbridge Hampshire. An Inn that is a Village in its own right within a Town, a nexus that anchors human stories in a place for 2000 years. It's a history written in Ale and Conversation, Food and Sleep, Travelers and Locals. Spiced with Religious Uproar, the Boots of…
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Alone among cousins: a Comtesse's war diary from occupied Belgium with Julian Sproule
In 1914 the Comtesse Marie de Seyssel d'Aix began a diary through the German occupation of Vielsalm, her son seized as a hostage and her château overrun. Around her stretched a vast web of aristocratic cousins across Europe — on both sides of the war — yet she faced the occupation almost alone....
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On Platforms: Where We Tell Stories Affects The Stories We Tell with Barbara Tien
We hear all about how AI has transformed research, writing, transcriptions, photography, and so on. What we're missing is how these fancy tools have combined with a networked world to transform how we use stories to share and connect with each other as individuals and families. These are changes…
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Priests and merchants: how occupation could be fundamental to influence in late-medieval York with Anne-Marie Harvatt
Explore the social networks of two late-medieval York residents, the priest Sir Laurence Hall and merchant Christopher Conyers, and find out how their occupations resulted in different types of influence. Anne-Marie is a PhD student at the University of Oxford where she studies the social…
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The Dastardly Dentist of Dogpole with John Parkinson
Victorian Britain was a formative time of widespread changes in the education, registration and regulation of dentists. Many practitioners adapted to dentistry from other professions, and worked with considerable freedom. George William Gregory was a Shrewsbury based dentist, living there from...
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Behind the Bedside Curtain: Everyday Lives in St Audry’s Medical Records with Julie Kathleen Johnson
Drawing on the surviving records of St Audry’s Hospital in Suffolk, this talk explores the lives of former patients through their medical case notes and wider historical research. Moving beyond diagnoses and institutional records, it reconstructs the personal experiences, family circumstances,...
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Fleshing Out the Bones of Your Ancestors with Mark Bayley
When starting your family history, it can be tempting to simply look up the dates and places of your ancestors’ vital events, but this makes for a rather bare tree! This session explores how to go beyond names and dates to build richer, more meaningful ancestral stories. We’ll uncover the record...
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High Medieval Hayton; the medieval era as a fun way to begin with Benedict Jephcote
Welcome to Episode 2 of the AATP 2026 Podcast! The medieval era has interesting and meaningful data. Knowing where to look and what to expect can turn medieval research into a rich area of research. Medieval research into villages may not have been carried out in much detail before, so there are...
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6 steps to Finding English/Welsh Archives With Janice Tullock
Welcome to Episode 1 of the AATP 2026 Podcast! Many people exploring their family of local history limit their research to sources they can easily find online. However, only a tiny fraction of all the preserved archival sources have been digitised, so researchers are missing out on finding a huge...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Celebrate genealogy and local history with All About That Place brought to you by the Society of Genealogists. Listen to short talks from family historians, local historians and other experts as they explore places, communities, records and the stories connected to them.
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Natalie Pithers
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