Events programme
Availability
Most of our events have limited availability and tickets are allocated on a first come, first served basis. If you contact us by email or telephone at the office organising the event, we will confirm availability of tickets and send you an email about secure online payment using the specific event code given in the event information below.
Alternatively, once we have confirmed availability of tickets you may send a cheque in payment.
Once payment has been made you will receive an email which will serve as a ticket. As we no longer issue paper tickets, staff on duty at the event will have a list of paid-up attendees against which they will check your name.
Refunds
We cannot make refunds unless we receive cancellation 8 working days in advance of the event.
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Free one-to-one family history help sessions
- Venue: Staffordshire Record Office
- Date: Fridays at 1:30pm.
- Admission: Sessions are free by advance booking only. Please telephone Staffordshire Record Office on 01785-278379 to reserve a session.
Archive Workshop: the private diaries of Elizabeth Hervey, 1792-1820
Explore the private diaries of Elizabeth Hervey, socialite, novelist, traveller, gardener and mother, with Dr Dianne Barre
- Venue: Staffordshire Record Office, Eastgate Street, Stafford ST16 2LZ
- Date: Saturday 16 November 2019
- Time: 10.00 a.m. - 12.00 noon
- Admission: As space is limited, admission is by tickets purchased in adavnce only. Cost £5.00. Please book by telephone: 01785-278379 or email staffordshire.record.office@staffordshire.gov.uk to reserve a ticket)
The Old Poor Law in Staffordshire and Beyond
Staffordshire Record Office offers this study day in collaboration with Keele University and the Arts and Humanities Funding Council.
- Venue: Staffordshire Record Office, Eastgate Street, Stafford ST16 2LZ
- Date: Saturday 30 November 2019
- Time: 10.00 a.m. - 3.30 p.m.
- Admission: As space is limited, admission is by tickets purchased in adavnce only. Cost £10.00. Please book by telephone: 01785-278379 or email staffordshire.record.office@staffordshire.gov.uk to reserve a ticket)
- Refreshments: Although a break for lunch is scheduled, please note that lunch is not provided. There are numerous places to eat a short walk away in the centre of town.
- Programme
- 10.00 : Dr Pete Collinge (Keele University), ‘Small Bills and Petty Finance, Co-creating the History of the Old Poor Law 1700–1834’
- 10.15 : Prof Alannah Tomkins (Keele University), ‘Introduction to the Old Poor Law’
- 10.30 : Dr Pete Collinge, ‘Women, Business and the Workhouse in Staffordshire’
- 11.15 : Prof Alannah Tomkins, ‘Assistant Overseers under the Old Poor Law’
- 12.00 - 13.30 : Lunch
- 13.30 : Hands-on session - Researching and writing biographies of people connected to the Poor Law in Staffordshire
- 14.30 : Dr Lizzie Spencer (York University), ‘Accounting for Clothing’
- 15.15 : Comments and feedback