This talk stems from Ian's hobby of building scale models of horse drawn vehicles, and looks at the horse drawn transport age from the mail coaching networks to transport on the estate or farm and how they influenced the lives of our ancestors.
A huge variety of carriages, omnibuses, trade vehicles, carts and wagons existed and we look at the regional differences, the types of transport and the horses which pulled them.
Ian is a retired professional genealogist with considerable experience in English research. He currently serves as the vice chairman and education officer of the Family History Federation. He is a Fellow of AGRA (The Association of Genealogists and Researchers in Archives) the body which represents professional genealogists throughout England and Wales and was a former Chairman.
Ian is also a Fellow of the Society of Genealogists and previously served as a trustee and chairman of the Society Education Committee. He has authored several books in the Society’s My Ancestor series and has also written Family History Research Challenges and how to solve them, Introducing Nonconformist Records and Introducing Manorial Records published by Family History Books.
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