1300 – 1830

Registration Desk Open

Hotel Reception Area

1430 – 1445

Welcome to Conference

Buckingham Suite

1445 – 1545

Maggie Gaffney – Criminal intent: from Kent to the colonies

Buckingham Suite

1545 – 1615

Refreshment Break

Buckingham Suite Foyer

1615 – 1715

Paul Blake – The Visual Record – Fact or Fiction

Buckingham Suite

1730 – 1830

Stewart Stevenson – Bigamy, Adultery and Murder – Using Scotland’s Adulterine Birth Records

Buckingham Suite

1930 – 2045

Buffet dinner

Buckingham Suite Foyer

2045 – 2145

Else Churchill – “Dunce ass blockheads and bould, impudent, clamourous woman” – unlocking secrets and stories from the bawdy church courts

Buckingham Suite

0700 – 0900

Breakfast

Hotel Restaurant

0830 – 1000

Registration Desk Open

Hotel Reception Area

0830 – 1630

Exhibitors, sponsors and  local society stalls

Buckingham Suite

0930 – 1030

Maggie Gaffney – The man on the war memorial

Janet Few – Doxies, Dolly-mops and Dressmakers: the history of prostitution 1780-1930

Burghley & Thorpe Suite

Essex Suite

1030 – 1100

Refreshment Break

Buckingham Suite Foyer

1100 – 1200

Gwyneth Wilkie – Amersham Workhouse Officials

Margaret Roberts – Oh Dear, What can the matter be? Auntie Joe’s lost in the Family Tree

Burghley & Thorpe Suite

Essex Suite

1200 – 1330

Buffet lunch

Buckingham Suite Foyer

1330 – 1430

Sarah Wise – Streets coloured black and blue: Charles Booth’s notebooks and the revelation of London poverty

Alan Moorhouse – Keeping It In The Family – A Police Sergeant Should Have Known Better?

Essex Suite

Burghley & Thorpe Suite

1445 – 1545

Donna Rutherford – Secrets in Code: Unlocking a Hidden Love Story

Kate Keter – Jilted! Or what happened after the wedding was called off

Essex Suite

Burghley & Thorpe Suite

1545 – 1615

Refreshment Break

Buckingham Suite Foyer

1615 – 1715

Karen de Bruyne – Bigamist and balloonist

Sarah Wise – The Undesirables: why Britain locked away its troublesome youngsters for life

Burghley & Thorpe Suite

Essex Suite

1830 – 1900

Conference Reception

Buckingham Suite Foyer

1900 -2030

Gala Banquet

Buckingham Suite

2030 – 2130

Ian Keable – The Century of Deception: The Birth of the Hoax in the Eighteenth Century

Buckingham Suite

2130 – 2359

Boogie Nights at the Secrets & Lies Disco

Buckingham Suite

0700 – 0900

Breakfast

Hotel Restaurant

0830 – 1000

Registration Desk Open

Hotel Reception Area

0900 – 1000

Calista Williams – Shall I be Mother? The lives of ‘house parents’ in Poor Law Cottage Homes

Buckingham Suite

1015 – 1115

Janet Few – Fallen Women or Vulnerable Girls?

Buckingham Suite

1115 – 1145

Refreshment Break

Buckingham Suite Foyer

1145 –  1245

Judie McCourt – “With an Italian on the sofa” the short but scandalous life of Emma Costello

Buckingham Suite

1245 – 1430

Buffet lunch

Buckingham Suite Foyer

1430 – 1530

Debbie Kennett – Mother’s baby, father’s maybe: how DNA testing revealed a 100-year-old family secret

Buckingham Suite

1530

Close of conference and afternoon tea

Buckingham Suite Foyer