Some stuff about us
We know our way around archives because we've spent many years on academic history research as you can see below. We've also spent a long time researching our own family history, starting from almost square one. Have a look here to see what we've achieved in only a few years.
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This late eighteenth-century engraving refers to the East End pub near where James Peaulet was arrested prior to the trial that led to his arrival at Botany Bay in 1788. The engraving of a pub bar probably gives a good insight into James's local - the Shoulder of Mutton and Cat. James was one of two First Fleeters among Heather's ancestors. |
Heather is descended from five Botany Bay convicts, two of whom arrived here on the First Fleet, as well as free settlers that came to Australia from Scotland and England. Not only has Heather provided the original impetus for our research into Australian family history, she also provides an invaluable administrative role that ensures that all commissions are dealt with as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Mick is a historian who has worked within genealogical and academic historical research for over thirty years. He has researched extensively in many UK and Australian archives, including The National Archives, most County Records Offices, the Society of Genealogists, State Records Offices as well as many university, museum, local, and regional collections. Mick also has access to a wide range of specialist internet resources, many of which are little-known to the general public.
Our Qualifications
Mick:
BA (Hons) First Class - History (Portsmouth)
MA in History (University of Sussex)
Graduate Diploma in Information Systems (University of Portsmouth)
Heather:
BA (Hons) in Italian and French (University of London)
Our Publications
| 'The Peasantry of Nineteenth-Century England: a Neglected Class?' History Workshop Journal 18, Autumn 1984 reprinted in Conflict and Community in Southern England: Essays in the Social History of Rural and Urban Labour from Medieval to Modern Times, edited by Barry Stapleton 'Social change and social conflict in nineteenth century England: A comment', in Journal of Peasant Studies, Volume 12, Issue 1 October 1984 , pages 109 – 123 'Indoor farm service in nineteenth century Sussex: some criticisms of a critique', Sussex Archaeological Collections 123 1985 'Nineteenth-Century Rural England: A Case for "Peasant Studies"?"' Journal of Peasant Studies, xiv (1986-7), pp. 78-99 'An Edwardian Land Survey: the Finance (1909-10) Act 1910 Records' (with Brian Short) Journal of the Society of Archivists, 8(1), pp. 82-3, and 8(2), 1986, pp. 95-103 Landownership and Society in Edwardian England: The Finance (1909-10) Act 1910 Records (with Brian Short), University of Sussex 1987 'The County of Sussex in 1910: Sources for a New Analysis', (with Brian Short and Bill Caudwell), Sussex Archaeological Collections, vol. 125, 1987, pp. 199-224 'The Lord Does Combination Love: Religion and Cooperations Amongst a Peculiar People', in Stephen Yeo (ed), New Views of Cooperation, Routledge 1988 pp. 73-87 "'Gnawing it out"; a new look at economic relations in nineteenth-century rural England', Rural History, I, 1990 Class, Conflict and Protest in the English Countryside, 1700-1880, (Co-editor with Roger Wells) Frank Cass, 1990 |
