England Project - Topics

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Welcome to the England Topics Page

Contents 1 Goal 2 The Topics 2.1 Local Topics

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? Please get in touch if you would like to get involved or start something new.

Topics are different from a One Place Study, which is larger and ongoing. Once a Topic is completed, it only requires occasional maintenance. Here is a link to the England One Place Studies page: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:England,_Place_Studies

The Project Co-ordinators for Topics are Ros Haywood and Marjorie Gibbon. Ros has been involved in getting several of the EP topics off the ground and making them what they are, and Marjorie was inspired to make the topic A House Through Time, 5 Ravensworth Terrace after seeing the TV series set in her home town, Newcastle 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.

The Topics

Most of the topics cover themes that are widespread throughout England, or across multiple counties or cities and towns. A few of the topics are very localised covering the residents of one building or a particular group of people in a certain location and time - see below.

• English Artists
  • Topic Manager: currently vacant
  • Team Members: Stephen Trueblood
• English Authors
  • Topic Manager: Ros Haywood
  • Team Members: Alan Fann, Sally Douglas (English Poets), Chase Ashley (William Shakespeare)
• Black Heritage Records in England
  • Topic Manager: currently vacant
• English Brass Bands and their known members
  • Topic Manager: Stephen Davies
• Canals and Waterways
  • Topic Manager: Gill Whitehouse
  • Team Members: Susie MacLeod, Amy Utting, Carol Gilbert, Anon Cormack
• English Classical Music Composers
  • Topic Manager: Michael Bissell-Benefiel
• English Companies and Their Founders
  • Topic Manager: currently vacant
• Harry Potter on WikiTree - lists of actors in the film series
  • Topic Manager: Ros Haywood
• History of Nonconformists in London, England and surrounding counties
  • Topic Manager: Trevor Pickup
• Influences in English Genealogy
  • Topic Manager: Michael Christmas
• English Industrial Revolution
  • Topic Manager: Simon Daniell
  • Team Members: Stephen Heathcote
• King Arthur Legends
  • Topic Manager: Ros Haywood
  • Team Members: Laura Bozzay, Ros Haywood , Jack Day, Summer Wren
• Livery Companies in the City of London and England
  • Topic Manager: Susie Officer
  • Team Members: Rachel Bulmer, Oscar Evans, Lizzie Griffiths, Madelaine Kirke, Rob Pavey, Elizabeth Viney, Gill Whitehouse, Andrew Sansum
• English Mining Disasters
  • Topic Manager: Fran Weidman
  • Team Members: Joan Whitaker, Pip Sheppard, Lizzie Griffiths, Steve Maxted, Neil Perry
• English Naturalists
  • Topic Managers: Neil Stewart, Marjorie (Humphrey) Gibbon
• The Peasants' Revolt of 1381
  • Topic Manager: Ros Haywood
• English Pirates 1516-1770
  • Topic Manager: Ros Haywood
• English Quakers Team
  • Topic Managers: Michael Cayley, Stephen Trueblood
  • Team Members: Susan Bulla, Ross Hadley, Kelly Kersey, Chris Little, Anne Rees, Steve Ringer, Cathi Stark, James Sumrall, Jennifer Thornton, Celia Marsh
• Regicides of King Charles I
  • Topic Manager: Lois Tilton
• English Suffragists and Suffragettes
  • Topic Manager: TBD
• Terra Nova Expedition (British Antarctic Expedition)
  • Topic Manager: Ros Haywood
• "Time Team" on Wikitree
  • Topic Manager: Ros Haywood

Local Topics

• 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.
• 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.
• Bob's Durham Bantams
  • Topic Manager: Jutta Beer
• Islington Institute 1939 Part of the workhouse for the parish of St Mary's Islington. The location on St Johns Road was erected in 1869-1870. This is a list of all its residents.
• The Metropolitan Police Force
  • Topic Manager: Susie MacLeod
• The Queen Victoria's Rifles Project
  • Topic Manager: David Smith
• Weavers in the East End
  • Topic Manager: Amelia Utting
• Westbridge Cottages. Built in 1850 to house mining families in Tavistock, Devon. This page looks at the first residents of these distinctive buildings.