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This is the website for the OPEN THE DOOR & HERE ARE THE PEOPLE conference. Over the forthcoming months the site will be frequently updated to bring you the latest information about this major event in the 2009 calendar. Learn about the lectures, workshops and other events. Meet the speakers, foremost in their fields, who will be involved. Read the blogs and join us in the build-up to this great event.

About Open the Door

The Halsted Trust is hosting this major Family & Local History Conference. This 5-star event will transcend the traditional and include a wide spectrum of subjects of interest to the family, local and social historian: as diverse as buildings to immigration and the military to industrial Britain.

 

Whether you are a family, local or social historian, a novice or an experienced researcher, OPEN THE DOOR ... will match your needs with extraordinary flair and value.

The Conference is being generously supported by:
28-31 August 2009 East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham
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The full Conference Programme is now on the website. OPEN THE DOOR ...  will be bring you the most exciting and prestigious programme ever assembled for family and local historians. It will make this the conference you cannot afford to miss.
And Sunday will be Ireland Day featuring three speakers from Ireland’s renown research and publishing company Eneclann - Brian Donovan, Elizabeth Cuddy and Rachel Murphy - plus Audrey Collins from TNA. They will cover subjects from basic Irish research and Irish land and property records, to records for Irish research held at The National Archives, Kew.