The Hampshire Family Historian | Vol.49 No.1 | June 2022

Local Group Programmes

by some who are nothing mor than “self indulgent navel gazers” which illustrates how difficult it is to be taken seriously. NIck compared the passion & enthusiasm in rummaging around where celebrities enjoy a bit of scandal in their history. He firmly believes that you must look at the history of the locations & go to where things happened to get the feel of the real history. You need to dig deep to form a picture as a lot of the archive can be airbrushed out but viewers would prefer to see the reality of the research and to understand the horror or truth of the history. At the start of the programmes, the idea was to have ten subjects who fitted the back stories. They needed people who didn’t know a lot of their back story. The subjects were asked to provide a family member who could help but no contact could be had between the subject and the family member until the programme was finally aired. They can’t also see the script as it would destroy the surprise element of the episode. The reveal has to be genuine - surprise! Forthcoming Meetings:

Quarantining and Social Distancing in the Tudor Times

June 16th

Cheryl Butler Colin Moretti

Parish Registers

July 21st

Members' Meeting - Experienced helping the inexperienced

August 18th

Mike Esbester - via Zoom

Railway Work: Life and Death

September 15th

Contact: Organisers: Fiona Ranger and Kay Lovell Email: international@hgs-online.org.uk

All meetings are via Zoom and at various UK times to allow overseas members to join in, International Group

(April) An armed incident at Barton on Sea – Nick Saunders This talk reveals what happened on the beach at Naish, Barton on Sea in 1825 when smugglers and Revenue men came into conflict. It gives an overview of smuggling on the Hampshire coast at that time. It looks at some of the men involved in the incident and what happened to them. It ends in Winchester Assizes where the details of the incident were reported in the newspapers of the time. Forthcoming Meetings:

TBA

June 1st at 8:00 pm

Tying the Knot: Marriage and its Records The history of marriage in England and Wales.

August 6th

Gill Blanchard

Stuart Southampton – Mayflower, Civil War and The Great Plague Andy Skinner

October 5th

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