TALKS AND TOURS

Donors and Depositors
Research Service
Education and Learning
Archive Services to
   North Somerset
Conservation
Reprographics
Staff are happy to provide talks on the work of the Archives and Local Studies Service and the records it holds.  We can either visit you in your usual venue, or you are welcome to come to the Somerset Heritage Centre.   Talks cost £40, whether they are held in or out of the office, and include images of documents from the archives. 
 

Subjects include:

·         Introduction to the Somerset Heritage Centre

·         Crime and Punishment

·         The Poor Law

·         Somerset Women

·         Taunton Sanitary Conditions and Public Health

·         Agricultural Education in Somerset

·         The Hyltons of Ammerdown

·         Rural Somerset 1865-1914

·         Army Records and the Somerset Light Infantry

·         How to Research the History of your House

·         Researching your Somerset Family

·         Sources for Somerset Transport History

·         Music in Somerset

·         Archaeology from Archives

To find out more, please see our talk leaflet: talks leaflet - PDF version (new window) or talks leaflet - Microsoft Word version (new window)

We also offer behind-the-scene tours of the Somerset Heritage Centre for small groups (maximum of 15 people per member of staff), for £25.00.

For more information about either of these, or to book, please contact Bev Duddridge:
Tel: 01823 278805
E-mail: archives@somerset.gov.uk.