Here is a bonus episode for the Genealogists with Too Much Time on Their Hands.  In this episode of the Talk Genealogy podcast, medievalist Malcolm Noble talks about how to get the support of your Member of Parliament for issues related to...

A discussion about the records likely to be found in the archive of a Diocese. How to find them and how to use them, along with a few comments about transcribed copies,  This episode opens a return to our regular monthly podcasts

This week's supplement to Malcolm Noble's Talk Genealogy podcast discusses the roles roles of husbands and wives in a rural Tudor setting, drawing on commentaries made at the time

This weekly supplement of the Talk Genealogy Podcast looks at walking those places on a family tree. We talk about how we can draw a continuous history of home and workplaces, generation by generation, back through the centuries.  The epis...

A brief weekly supplement to the Talk Genealogy posdcast looks at Taking Sanctuary in Church. How can we tell if your ancestors did it? And what do the different words and terms mean?

If you are a genealogist with too much on your hands, listen to this episode about compulsory marriages in Olde England.  Stick with it to the end and there's a bit on an add-on!

This weekly supplement to the Talk Genealogy Podcast presents a magazine of updates, news of things to come. Witches in America and Skeletons in Manure!

The  History of the English Pig nicely aligns with your family's history.  See how the pigs says much about your family's social standing, its right and obligations and the day to day life of a medieval husbandsman.

This episode provides a special quiz for Christmas !  Have fun

Episode 72 looks at how we interpreted a graveyard inscription, and came up with answers we didn't expect.  The episode is one of a series of short weekly supplements leading up to the publlication of my book  A Practical Introduction...

The week's supplement looks at identifying a source and its proximity to events, along with some problems with corroboration. 

This week's weekly supplement looks at the Victorian Shipway Scandal, which exposed deceitful genealogical goings-on and enahnced the reputation of W Phillimore.

The Bayeux Inquest shows how oral evidence became history and feudal terms and concepts in action. The story has much to do with Bishop Odo, the Conqueror's half-brother, and the interpretation of the Red Book by Horace Round.