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?

Lots of support available, please get in touch if you would like to get involved or start something new.

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
  • 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)
• Black Heritage Records in England
  • Team Leader: Corinne Morris
• Bob's Durham Bantams
  • Team Leader: Jutta Beer
• English Brass Bands and their known members
  • Team Leader: Stephen Davies
• Canals and Waterways
  • Team Leader: Geoff Rice
  • Team Members: Susie MacLeod, Amy Utting, Carol Gilbert, Anon Cormack, Gill Whitehouse
• English Classical Music Composers
  • Team Leader: Michael Bissell-Benefiel
• English Companies and Their Founders
  • Team Leader: currently vacant
• Harry Potter on WikiTree - lists of actors in the film series
  • Team Leader: Ros Haywood
• History of Nonconformists in London, England and surrounding counties
  • Team Leader: Trevor Pickup
• Influences in English Genealogy
  • Team Leader: Michael Christmas
• King Arthur Legends
  • Team Leader: Jack Day
  • Team Members: Laura Bozzay, Ros Haywood
• Livery Companies in the City of London and England
  • Team Leaders: Susie Officer
  • Team Members: Rachel Bulmer, Oscar Evans, Lizzie Griffiths, Madelaine Kirke, Rob Pavey, Elizabeth Viney, Gill Whitehouse
• The Metropolitan Police Force
  • Team Leader: Olivia McCabe
• English Mining Disasters
  • Team Leader: Fran Weidman
  • Team Members: Joan Whitaker, Pip Sheppard, Lizzie Griffiths, Steve Maxted, Neil Perry
• English Naturalists
  • Team Leaders: Neil Stewart, Marjorie (Humphrey) Gibbon
• The Peasants' Revolt of 1381
  • Team Leader: currently vacant
• English Pirates 1516-1770
  • Team Leader: Ros Haywood
• 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
• The Queen Victoria's Rifles Project
  • Team Leader: David Smith
• Regicides of King Charles I
  • Team Leader: Lois Tilton
• Suffragettes/Suffragists
  • Team Leader: TBD
• Terra Nova Expedition (British Antarctic Expedition)
  • Team Leader: Ros Haywood
• Weavers in the East End
  • Team Leader: Amelia Utting

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.
• 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.
• Westbridge Cottages. Built in 1850 to house mining families in Tavistock, Devon. This page looks at the first residents of these distinctive buildings.