England Project - Topics

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Welcome to the England Topics Page

Contents 1 Goal 2 National Topics 2.1 Existing 2.2 Under Development 3 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?

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.