A Barnsley Historian's View

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Thursday, 28 October 2021

News about the 1921 census and how it might impact my academic plans

Some of the historians I follow on Twitter are complaining about the recently revealed starting prices for the Find My Past (FMP) release of...

Saturday, 16 October 2021

Happy Birthday Blog! How have things changed in the last nine years?

It's my blog's birthday today. I wrote my first post on 16 October 2012 . Happy 9th birthday blog! I just had a look at the original...

Monday, 23 August 2021

Why is Herbert Bethell, lost at Jutland in 1916, not on a War Memorial in Cudworth or Barnsley?

I have several reasons for writing this post: Herbert Bethell was born in Cudworth, which is not only in Barnsley, but also the village (?t...

Thursday, 12 August 2021

Child and Female Pallbearers in England: A Barnsley example following Jane White's mysterious death in 1870, with a deviation into the history of Cudworth

A year ago I wrote about the funeral of a seven year old girl , whose ten bearers were described in the newspaper as girl friends of the dec...

Tuesday, 20 July 2021

Public Engagement - Reactions to First World War Local History Posts on Facebook

Today I was very happy when a couple of posts I made on Facebook produced information useful for my research. As part of the research for m...

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About Me

BarnsleyHistorian: I'm a mature perpetual student. I studied with the Open University from 1998 to 2014, history mostly. I used to enjoy volunteering at the local Archives transcribing old documents. I've been researching Family History for over thirty years, and I've been a Campaign for Real Ale member longer than that. I was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease just over fifteen years ago and had to finish work twelve years ago. I reinvented myself as a Local History speaker, specialising in WW1 Soldiers and War Memorials, but had to give that up due to ill health. I was an Official Remote Volunteer for the IWM's War Memorials Register and Lives of the First World War (2013-2019). Between October 2017 and February 2020 I studied for an MA in the History of Britain and the First World War at Wolverhampton University. I achieved a Pass with Merit. In March 2020 I was offered a place at Wolverhampton to study for a PhD. My topic will be, of course, war memorials! In July 2021 I became a Grandma when my daughter and her husband had little baby Ffion.

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