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Are you fascinated by a particular aspect of history and drawn to make or improve profiles for a particular type of person? Suffragettes? Early residents of the street you live in? Quakers? The people involved in the peasants' revolt of 1381? One of the topics might be the place for you - or perhaps you would like to start your own topic?
Lots of support available, please get in touch if you would like to get involved or start something new.
The Project Co-ordinator for Topics is Marjorie Gibbon, who was inspired to make the topic A House Through Time, 5 Ravensworth Terrace after seeing the TV series set in her home town, Newastle upon Tyne.
Goal
Topics are ways to bring together and curate English profiles under a common theme.
For the National Topics we want to create flagship profiles that will be a lasting legacy for future generations. We do this in conjunction with the Managed Profiles team which works on the profiles managed and protected by England as well as the Profile Improvements team.
National Topics
These are topics which cover England-wide themes
Existing
- English Artists
- Team Leader: currently vacant
- Team Members: Stephen Trueblood
- English Authors
- Team Leader: Ros Haywood
- Team Members: Alan Fann, Sally Douglas (English Poets), Chase Ashley (William Shakespeare)
- Canals and Waterways
- Team Leader: Geoff Rice
- Team Members: Susie MacLeod, Amy Utting, Carol Gilbert, Anon Cormack
- Influences in English Genealogy
- Team Leader: Michael Christmas
- King Arthur Legends
- Team Leader: Jack Day
- Team Members: Laura Bozzay, Ros Haywood
- English Mining Disasters
- Team Leader: Fran Weidman
- Team Members: Joan Whitaker, Pip Sheppard, Lizzie Griffiths, Steve Maxted, Neil Perry
- The Peasants' Revolt of 1381
- Team Leader: currently vacant
- English Quakers Team
- Team Leaders: Michael Cayley, Stephen Trueblood
- Team Members: Susan Bulla, Ross Hadley, Kelly Kersey, Chris Little, Anne Rees, Steve Ringer, Cathi Stark, James Sumrall, Jennifer Thornton
Under Development
- English Classical Music Composers
- Team Leader: Michael Bissell-Benefiel
- The Metropolitan Police Force
- Team Leader: Olivia McCabe
- Regicides of King Charles I
- Team Leader: Lois Tilton
- English Brass Bands and their known members
- Team Leader: Stephen Davies
- Suffragettes/Suffragists
- Team Leader: currently vacant
Local Topics
These are topics which cover smaller themes often at a local level. These may be a particular event, a particular building or a particular group of people.
- Westbridge Cottages. Built in 1850 to house mining families in Tavistock, Devon. This page looks at the first residents of these distinctive buildings.
- Beckingham Quakers. A page detailing the early Quakers in the Beckingham area of Lincolnshire and Barnby in the Willows in Nottinghamshire either side of the River Witham during the first decade of the group: 1654-1664.
- A House Through Time: 5 Ravensworth Terrace. The house at 5, Ravensworth Terrace, Newcastle upon Tyne, featured in the second series of 'A House Through Time' on BBC2 in April 2019. This page traces the lives of some of the occupants.
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I was in touch a few months ago - I've been working on a page for the 'A House Through Time' series set in Newcastle (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:A_House_Through_Time_-_5%2C_Ravensworth_Terrace.), and am wondering what to do next. It's not quite finished, needs a few edits and a few more profiles to make, but getting there. I see that the other two local topics in the England Project work in different ways - the Westbridge Cottages work as a category and the Beckingham Quakers have a link to the page in the text of their profile, not a category. Grateful for advice on how to proceed from here - I know that I will have to go back and edit each of the profiles to link them to the page, but would it be better as a category or as a link in the text? Thanks, Marjorie