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Events: May 2023
ONLINE Third Thursday Talk: Surprised by Parish Registers
by Pete Bradshaw, archivist
Thursday 18 May 2023, from 10.30am to 11.30am
£0.00
I thought I knew about parish registers. I had added records to my family tree intensely since inheriting it from my dad in 2001. Working at the time in IT, I had designed a database to hold our research. This quickly grew to encompass much more than my own ancestors. My curiosity about village life in earlier centuries led me to attempt to add records for an entire parish (1538 to 1900). I was interested to see how interconnected the resident families were, and to gain an insight into household makeup and changes through time.
Looking at the whole register, rather than searching for individuals or families, gave a very different viewpoint, and I was soon struck by a number of unexpected patterns...
This free event is hosted on Zoom.
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Events: July 2023
ONLINE Third Thursday Talk: 'A Plan so replete with advantages...' - The Building of Durham's North Road
by David Butler, archivist
Thursday 20 July 2023, from 10.30am to 11.30am
£0.00
North Road, running from Framwellgate Bridge to St. Leonard's School, is now so much an integral part of Durham's road network that it is difficult to imagine it not existing; yet it is a comparatively late addition to the city's roads, opened in 1831. Why was it built and what problems did the project face?
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Events: September 2023
ONLINE Third Thursday Talk: Country Banks and the Durham Advertiser circa 1815
by John Banham, local historian
Thursday 21 September 2023, from 10.30am to 11.30am
£0.00
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John Banham, Secretary of the Durham County Local History Society, researched early banking in North East England for his PhD thesis in the 1990s. With the advent of the online British Newspaper Archive, this talk extends that research to cover the reporting of the activities of local banks in the Durham County Advertiser in the early years of the nineteenth century.
At the time the Advertiser pronounced itself "the only newspaper between York and Newcastle" and covered the activities of country banks in County Durham and North Yorkshire, particularly during the banking crash of 1815/16.
This free event is hosted on Zoom.
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