Happy New Year, everyone! and Happy Birthday to Liverpool! :-) Hope these events are of interest to you. For more events, please see the ENG-GEN-EVENTS list (http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/ENG/ENG-GEN-EVENTS.html) Lynne ============ January =========== 1 January LIVERPOOL's 800th birthday celebration starts, culminating in the official birthday celebrations on 28 August 2007. http://www.liverpool08.com/Events/ThemedYears/2007/ 9 January 7:30 pm - HORWICH HERITAGE SOCIETY, "York Minster to Victoria Hall - Part 2," Horwich Resource Centre, Beaumont Road (off Longworth Road), Horwich. http://www.horwichheritage.co.uk/meetings.htm 14 January 8:00 pm - JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND, Manchester Branch, “Ruthless Elites; Germany, The Armenian Genocide and the Shoah," Manchester Jewish Museum, 190 Cheetham Hill Road, Manchester M8 8LW. http://www.jhse.org/html/about_us.html 16 January 7:30 pm - NORTH CHESHIRE FHS Hazel Grove Branch, "Website and Software Updates", The Civic Hall, London Road, Hazel Grove. http://www.ncfhs.org.uk/ 18 January JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY of GB, Manchester Group meeting, visit to the Archive Department at the Manchester Central Library. Contact Lorna Kay, manchester@jgsgb.org.uk <mailto:manchester@jgsgb.org.uk> 24 January 10:30 am - MANCHESTER & LANCASHIRE FHS, The Parish and its Records, Clayton House, 59 Piccadilly, Manchester M1 2AQ. http://mlfhs.org.uk/Meetings.htm ============ February ============ 16 February 2:00 pm to 2:30 pm - PEOPLE'S HISTORY MUSEUM, Living History - Bronterre O’Brien, Victorian editor of the Poor Man’s Guardian, reveals the truth behind the Peterloo Massacre, child workers and cotton mills. People's History Museum, Left Bank, Bridge Street, Manchester, M3 3ER. http://82.71.77.169/index.html 24 February 10:00 am to 4:00 pm - CHESHIRE FAMILY HISTORY FAIR, Northwich Memorial Hall,Northwich, Cheshire. http://www.fhsc.org.uk/fhsc/notice.htm 25 February 2:30 pm - WESLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, North Lancashire District Branch, "Sister Dorothy Hincksman Farrar (1899 - 1987) and the evolution of women's ministry in Methodism." Lytham Methodist Church, Park Street, Lytham. http://web.ukonline.co.uk/whsnl/