Posts by Dr Kathleen Chater AudioWriter of the month: Researching untold historiesTuesday 5 November 2013Dr Kathleen Chater discusses her book Researching Untold Histories: Black people in England and...AudioAt the Instigation of the Devil: suicide and its recordsMonday 12 August 2013Even today suicide is surrounded by guilt and silence. How did our ancestors regard...AudioTracing Huguenot ancestorsFriday 14 December 2012Between the 16th and 18th centuries, many thousands of refugees fled from religious persecution...AudioCoroners’ InquestsThursday 16 August 2012Coroners’ inquests produce a wealth of information for family historians. Ancestors might have been involved...AudioUntold histories: black Britons during the period of the British slave trade, c1660-1807Monday 12 December 2011What was life like for the ‘average’ black person in England before the 20th...