Gillian Waters is an experienced historical researcher and is happy to help you with your local or family research.
Whether you are researching your family history, or a locality, a teacher creating a Local History programme of study, or a museum, archive, gallery or heritage site wishing to develop materials rooted in local contexts we can help.
We can create frameworks for research or teaching, research relevant source materials, create resources, or design and deliver local history courses.
We can:
- Start you off on your family or local history journey with hints and suggestions as to where to look
- Look up and search for specific entries in named records
- Verify, or add to, existing research
- Reconstruct local historical communities
- Research the background local history of an area, making links to national events
- Research an historic event, topic or object to make links to the National Curriculum, and/or to accredited museum or archive collections
- Research and place a house’s history within its local context
- Compile family, house or local histories Transcribe original documents from 1500 onwards