Royal Society of Arts Membership Lists and Minute Books
There are 72,873 entries in this new set covering 1754 to 1856.

Every record has a transcript of the vital details and a copy of the original image. Transcription will include a combination of the following:

Name
Role – Member or Sponsor
Event date – this could be the date of the meeting or date or entry date
Declined date
Residence
Member’s name
Sponsor’s name
Archive and reference.

Each member had a sponsor so that you could compile a sponsor pedigree.

John Derby Allcroft< Stephen J Aldrich< C  (E?) Brewster< Henry Cole< E Speer<?

Were they relatives, neighbours, business associates?

Britain, In Memoriam Notices
An additional 1,258 British In Memoriam notices appear this week, from 1783 to 1995.

Newspapers
The Educational Times and the Woman Teacher are profiled in the newspaper collection, which has 258,481 new pages this week.