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By Louise Taylor, Oxford Brookes University I was invited to contribute an essay to the publication Inheriting the Family: Objects, Identities and Emotions. The book was published in February 2026, and I followed up with a visual component in the form of an art exhibition that was held at a mental health conference in Oxford, […]
The Inheriting Family team have been busy! Check out the results of our work. Katie Barclay, Ashley Barnwell, Joanne Begiato, Tanya Evans, and Laura King, eds, Inheriting the Family: Objects, Identities and Emotions (London: Bloomsbury, 2025). Available Open Access! Katie Barclay, Ashley Barnwell, Joanne Begiato, Tanya Evans, and Laura King, eds, Special Issue: Inheriting the […]
Margaret Tucker was born in Selby in Yorkshire and she emigrated to Australia in the 1960s, first to the steel milling town of Whyalla, in the desert of northern South Australia, then to the much milder capital city of Adelaide. She brought with her a nursing footstool that had belonged to her grandmother, Sarah Fowler, […]
By Michael Heim Adelaide, South Australia My parents were sort of proto-hippies. They were a generation too early to be real hippies, but when the movement happened in the mid 1960s, they recognised it immediately, and embraced it. My mother Jane was born in 1927 and by the 1950’s she was a species of hipster […]
Sharon Burnell and Ros Phillips have provided a photograph of some members of the Wood family, with some information as to who they might be. Sharon thinks the follow photo is of five brothers, either the sons of her great-great parents John and Rosannah Wood, or the sons of her great uncle Isaiah Wood and […]
By Michael Heim If you like detective games, then trying to work out your family history based on the clues and objects and stories you inherit from your family is something you are going to enjoy. There is a lot of information rolling around the place, in people’s memories, in family stories that get handed […]
Lesley Smith’s Family Photographs Lesley Smith inherited two leather photograph albums from her family that contain several snaps. She brought eight photographs from the album to our History Harvest on family photographs in 2019 to showcase some of her favourites, including one of her grandfather and his three brothers (Figure 1). Her grandfather posed, standing […]
Our Inheriting the Family Research Network has been pretty quiet for a while and so we thought we’d explain why! Our AHRC funded Research network led by Katie Barclay and Joanne Begiato was awarded funding late in 2019 for a two-year project. Our plans were to deliver four international workshops, two History Harvests in which we would […]
On the 14 October 2019, the network held its first workshop on the theme of genealogies, genetics and family history. The one-day workshop included two panels – a first on genetics and a second on family history – and a roundtable. The panel on genetics brought together Jerome De Groot, Maria Sophia Quine, and Petra […]
