Oral History - How to record your family's voice.

Pat Selby, one of our members and a trained oral historian, will introduce us to this approach.   It's probably too late for recording our ancestors' lives but we should be considering recording our own lives for future generations.

Pounds Shillings and Poverty

Worthing Meeting Centre

Our Speaker, David Williams, is a City of London Guide and Lecturer who will give us an insight into the 19th Century as an age of invention, mechanisation, railway building, a vast empire and dramatic urbanisation.  Fortunes were made and lost whilst squalid living conditions added to the misery of those who struggled, but there were also peope devoting their lives to improving working and social conditions.

Victorian Railway Clerks

Victorian Railway Clerks

In this talk we explore the recruitment, working conditions, promotion and the good, bad and humorous experiences of clerical workers on Victorian Railways.

 

David Turner is a  Lecturer and Programme Director of the University of York’s online Masters in Railway Studies

I am currently Lecturer and Programme Director of the University of York’s online Masters in Railway Studies, which examines the social, political, cultural, economic and business history of Britain’s railways between c.1825 and 2010.

I completed my PhD in Railway Studies with the University of York’s Institute or Railway Studies in 2013.