Lingfield 22^nd Jan	The First Railway Workers c.1825-c.1870 The prior occupations, working environment and lives of early railway workers, and some of the first strike actions by them.	David Turner
Croydon 10^th February	Lavender Mitcham and beyond	Alison Cousins from The Wandle Museum
Lingfield 26^thFebruary	Adoption & Fostering 1850-1930 From informal arrangements to legal adoption. Individuals, local authorities, charities and courts all played a role in the fostering or adoption of children.	Louise Taylor
Croydon 9^th March	Archbishops of Canterbury & Old Palace	David Morgan
Richmond 14^th March
Lingfield 25^thMarch	Delinquents – and those who tried to change them How to find out about child criminals and also discover the people who tried to reform them in the early days of the Probation Service.	Kathy Chater
Lingfield 22^ndApril	Women, the home and Spanish Flu in the Great War The Great War was won on the Home Front.	Ian Porter
Richmond 9^th May	Members Meeting
Croydon 11^th May	'Into adventure and sunshine: behind the lines of the Second World War' Ian’s great uncle’s war adventures	Ian Packham Adventurer, writer & speaker
Lingfield 27^thMay	Secrets & Lies Adventures in other people’s family history Some extraordinary and poignant stories uncovered whilst Frances was researching for clients.	Dr Frances Hurd
Croydon 8^th June	DNA	Donna Rutherford One of the leading speakers & researchers in the DNA and family history field
Lingfield 24^thJune	Netherne Mental Hospital Netherne was opened in 1909 and closed in 1994. The surviving archives explore all aspects of the hospital's life, and provide a rare glimpse of daily life inside a Surrey psychiatric hospital.	Julian Pooley Of Surrey History Centre
Richmond 11^th July
Croydon 13^th July	Jewish Family History	Jeanette Rosenberg from the Jewish Family History Society
Lingfield 22^ndJuly	Aladdin’s Cave Some major family and estate archives in Surrey History Centre	Mike Page
Richmond 12^th September
Croydon 14^th September	1939 Register One of the most important contemporary documents available. How can you use this effectively in your research?	Robert Parker Qualified and experienced genealogist
Lingfield 23^rdSeptember	Irish family history resources on the internet Introducing the most useful of the wide range of online record indexes and other resources, many free, for those with Irish ancestry.	Peter Christian
Croydon 12^th October	Commonwealth War Graves CWG Commission honours the 1.7 million me & women who died in the 2 world was & ensures they will never be forgotten	Fiona Smith Previously worked at the Commission
Lingfield 28^thOctober	Creating a Family History Website	John Hanson
Croydon 9^th November	Gondolas and Growlers Growth of the London hansom cab	Ian Waller Retired genealogist and frequent speaker at our society
Richmond 14^th November
Lingfield 25^thNovember	Public Executions - the macabre spectacle in 19^th century Britain	Alan Essex