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Society for One-Place Studies

@oneplacestudies.bsky.social

www.one-place-studies.org – For excellence and enjoyable engagement in #OnePlaceStudies, where #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory unite. Studying and celebrating places, their people, and their shared histories. Post about your OPS on #OnePlaceWednesday!

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Pam Smith LHG@genejean.bsky.social · 17m ago

A village doctor, a mysterious skeleton, two private patients, a “fiery dragon” on the railway and a Victorian with a wonderfully dry sense of humour. Meet Dr Thomas Allanson, who spent more than 50 years watching #Rillington change on #OnePlaceWednesday 🔗 www.rillingtonhistory.com/dr-thomas-al...

Dr. Thomas Allanson - Rillington History

Some people appear only briefly in the records of a village. Others seem to be everywhere. For more than fifty years, Dr Thomas Allanson was one of the best-known figures in Rillington. He was the vil...

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Society for One-Place Studies@oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 14h ago

Act quickly if you are interested in #LocalHistory events in #Lambeth! www.lambeth.gov.uk/lambeth-heri...

LambethArchives@lambetharchives.bsky.social · 16h ago

We’re now into the second week of the Lambeth Heritage Festival 2026, with plenty more local history to discover! Check the full festival programme and remember to book your place, as many events are already fully booked:https://www.lambeth.gov.uk/lambeth-heritage-festival

Family Tree Magazine@familytreemag.bsky.social · 4d ago

🆕 Updated for 2026! MyHeritage is a leading genealogical resource rife with valuable resources. This article offers tips for navigating MyHeritage for free: 🔗 https://familytreemagazine.com/websites/myheritage-for-free/ #Genealogy #FamilyHistory

MyHeritage for Free: 10 Tips for Using It Without a Subscription - Family Tree Magazine

MyHeritage is a leading genealogical resource rife with valuable resources. This article offers tips for navigating MyHeritage for free.

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Janet Few@janetfew.bsky.social · 2d ago

If you missed it and want to learn about the ill health of your ancestors my 5 week online Pharos course starts next month

Kelly Cornwell@whoamiftr.bsky.social · 2d ago

And we’re off! The @pharostutors.bsky.social webinar team are warming up ready to welcome you to the first webinar of the week, starting at 10am. The wonderful @janetfew.bsky.social is presenting “A Plague upon all your Houses: epidemic disease and our ancestors” www.pharostutors.com/webinars

History and Heritage Yorkshire@handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 2d ago

These wooden pirns are small but significant reminders of Yorkshire’s textile history. Used in weaving to hold the weft yarn, they would have been familiar sights in the county’s mills, where workers turned thread into cloth. Now worn smooth they each carry a little piece of our industrial past.

A top-down view of a woven wicker basket filled to the brim with dozens of antique wooden textile mill pirns. The wooden items vary in shape, from long, slender rods to tapered cones, and display weathered, natural wood tones with metal tips, grooved details, and faded painted accents in blue and green. Image: Tim Green CC BY-SA 2.0
History and Heritage Yorkshire@handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 3d ago

🧵Those weathered doors seem to hold a thousand untold stories. Who once stepped through them each morning? Who worked behind them, laughed there, argued, dreamed, or even loved. Worn surfaces, closed doors and the faint suggestion of lives that have long since moved on but where memories remain.

Lost to time. 🏚️ There is something hauntingly beautiful about the textures of urban decay. This exposed party wall tells the story of an entire building that used to stand right here, leaving behind doors that now open into thin air.
Weird Bristol@weirdbristol.bsky.social · 2d ago

When the breathtaking Everard building was unveiled in 1901, it was such a sensation that people travelled from miles away and flooded Broad Street to see it. Fights broke out as people jostled for a better view and the police had to regulate the street for two days.

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