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.

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

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

Women, the home and Spanish Flu in the Great War

The Great War was won on the Home Front.

Ian Porter

Secrets & Lies

Adventures in other people’s family history

Some extraordinary and poignant stories uncovered whilst Frances was researching for clients.

Dr Frances Hurd

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

Aladdin’s Cave

Some major family and estate archives in Surrey History Centre

Mike Page

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

Public Executions

- the macabre spectacle in 19^th century Britain

Alan Essex