About: Clare O'Grady
Recent Posts by Clare O'Grady
Meet the Speakers- Professor Heather Shore
Professor Heather Shore of Manchester Metropolitan University is one of our key note speakers alongside Professor Helen Johnston FrHistS FHEA of the University of Hull on Researching your criminal ancestors We spoke to Heather about the inspiration behind her fascinating work.. “My interest in crime history is long-standing, even as an undergraduate I wrote essays on historical criminals and popular disorder. This led to […]
New RQG Member – Karin Lowen
Karin has an MSc from the University of Strathclyde in Genealogical, Paleographic and Heraldic Studies (2019-21) and a BA from Oxford University in Experimental Psychology (1983-86). Based in Kingston upon Thames, London, Karin’s particular interests are in travel and migration records. She has specific experience using French and French colonial records; paleography and writing genealogy […]
New RQG member – Claire Esker
Claire holds an MSc with merit in Genealogic, Palaeographic, and Heraldic Studies from the University of Strathclyde and graduated in 2020. Based in Highwood, Illinois, USA, Claire is especially interested in Polish and Polish American genealogy. She volunteers with the Polish Genealogical Society of America as a volunteer researcher and is working on starting up […]
Opening up the Body: The Post Mortem Case Books of St George’s Hospital
By Natasha Shillingford History of St George’s Hospital St George’s Hospital opened in 1733 at Lanesborough House, Hyde Park Corner in London, in what was then a countryside location. The hospital was founded by four men, Henry Hoare, William Wogan, Robert Witham and the Reverend Patrick Cockburn, who collectively founded the Westminster Public Infirmary in […]