Discover more about your family tree at council-run courses
Two short courses will be held at Ludlow Museum Resource Centre at the beginning of March 2012.
Social history interpreter, Janet Bradley, will return to the collections centre to help keen family history enthusiasts branch out their family tree.
This relaxed and informal six-week course will give participants the tools to extend their research and help them put more of their family history into context. Included in the course is a private visit to Shropshire Archives for a special behind the scenes look at the wealth of original documents available for research.
The course starts on Friday 2 March at 2pm at Ludlow Museum Resource Centre and costs £54 which includes refreshments and the private session at Shropshire Archives. Janet has run many family history courses that have inspired participants to begin a fascinating and often compulsive study of the past lives of their ancestors. And the courses are always great fun too, with lots of surprises and laughter while students delve into the extraordinary history that can lie forgotten in the records of the past.
Meanwhile, for those whose thoughts are turning to spring and the garden, Polly Bolton returns to talk about Garden History and Two Hundred Years of Change in Britain, from 1650 to 1850.
Polly is the author of “The Cottage Garden” and for 16 years ran a beautiful nursery garden at Clee St Margaret before concentrating on her singing career and running courses.
The three-week course will trace the effect of enclosure, industrialisation and the landscape garden movement on the lives of both rich and poor, looking at the way village life changed from self-sufficient units to being centred round the big country estates of the wealthy landed gentry.
Each week will look at gardens, some in the Shropshire and Welsh Marches area, illustrated by presentations and books.
The course will run on Wednesdays 14, 21 and 28 March 2012 from 2pm to 4pm and costs £24 to include refreshments.
If you would like to book a place on either course, please phone Ludlow Museum Resource Centre on 01584 813665 or email: avril.lines@shropshire.gov.uk
