Society for One-Place Studies
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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!
It's #SteepleSaturday, so let's take a final visit this week to our #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek, the Church of the Good Shepherd at Murrayfield in Edinburgh. An Arts & Crafts gem, it was designed and built by celebrated architect Robert Lorimer early in his career. (1/3)
#Genealogy #Genearosity #FamilyHistory I'm at my Affiliate Library today if any genie needs a limited-access record copy. I'll be here until about 5 pm Eastern US time. #PayItForward #SpreadTheWord
Inside the really wonderful Church of All Saints, Saltfleetby, Lincolnshire… peaceful, light, simple and beautiful 💕
The "Ancestors Lost by Suicide Commemoration project," led @genealcymru.bsky.social to insights that would help any #familyhistory writer or #genealogist learn to share stories informed by what survivors and prevention advocates. Join our free Sunday livestream: tockify.com/eventscalend...
Live "Capturing the Lives of the Stigmatised & Marginalised" with Dai Davies
“How do I best write the life story of my ancestor?” It’s a question that all family historians have to ask and the answers become more complex when our ancesto
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IGRS Top Research Tip #220: If your family history research brings you to Rosscarbery, Co. Cork, this fascinating heritage archive offers a glimpse into the lives, places, & traditions of the community through photographs, historical records & local stories: rosscarberyheritage.heritagecork.org
William Bolton of High Street will be applying for a licence to sell beer for consumption off premises at the next licencing meeting. #1876OPS #OnePlaceStudies
🧵The former Friends Meeting House at 4 & 5 Percy Street, Hull. Dating from the early 19th century it was originally 2 houses before becoming a Friends Meeting House. Painted stucco with a hipped slate roof with 2 rendered ridge stacks. It was used by the Quakers from 1919 to 2007. /1
In the latest episode of Findmypast’s brilliant A Family History Of… podcast David Olusoga joins Jen to revisit the Peterloo Massacre of 1819 – an event our ancestors may have witnessed first-hand. Listen now: https://f.mtr.cool/scufjyjlpi #ad #familyhistory #genealogy
The herringbone walls that surround the medieval church of St. Cybi's on Holy Island, Anglesey are part of a C4th Roman fort - layer upon layer of time.
'A House, a Family and an Architect’ a talk about Walter Henry Brierley by David Guyton at our September 2nd talk. Brierley was York’s leading architect and died a hundred years ago this month. @balhnews.bsky.social @federationfhs.bsky.social @yorkarchive.bsky.social @uoyborthwick.bsky.social
As promised, a blog that talks about human error, children (not) being transported and why AI can't do what historians do (because it can't think) sophiemhistory.substack.com/p/historians...
Historians and AI
Sources, methodology, and lies
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We've updated our A-Z listing of UK history societies - now with links to c.140 societies and organisations that bring historians together and provide support: bit.ly/4wodFDb. Also of value for making connections, @balhnews.bsky.social's guide to local history groups bit.ly/4gaHYHA #Skystorians
Just published - part 2 of the series on Colfe's Almshouses, the pictureseque remnant of old Lewisham that stood on the High Street, but fell into ruin and was demolished in 1958: longlazylewisham.wordpress.com/2026/08/14/c...
Colfe’s almshouses – part 2: repair, ruin and replacement
This is the second of three blog posts about Colfe’s Almshouses, which stood on the High Street near the parish church of St Mary from the 1660s until the 1950s. The previous post told the story of…
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Happy Friday!! 🎉 Popping down to your local chippy this evening? We love this photo taken in the 1920s of a delivery boy with his bicycle and basket containing fried fish from G.W. Townsend of Witney. #FishandChips #HappyFriday
Great to see so many archives featured in the Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival next week. Explore the full programme: www.glasgowdoorsopendays.org.uk
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Explore 150+ free buildings, tours, talks and performances across Glasgow, 17-20 Sept 2026. Discover what's behind the city's most fascinating doors.
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Wishing you a happy #FingerpostFriday (and #PostboxSaturday ) with a photo I took in Conistone in the #YorkshireDales 💚
#PhotoFriday today is this 1897 photograph of street hawkers in the Bull Ring, purveyors of inexpensive jewellery and toys - two of the key historic trades of the city. Ref - Bull Ring 10 #LibraryofBham #Brumpic
📜 New on the blog! Paul Sutherland explores a fascinating 1729 childbirth inquiry in the Kirk Session records, examining the testimony of local women. What is revealed about women’s knowledge, childbirth and midwifery in early 18th-century Scotland? 🔗 womenshistoryscotland.org/2026/08/08/c...
“Cannot Affirm Any Thing”: Women’s Testimony and Childbirth at Chappellhill, 1729 – Women's History Scotland
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Part of my pocketable wonky buildings series: C15th delight, known as Lavenham Priory in Lavenham, Suffolk. With a wonderful survival of floral pargetting to the facade. #throwbackthursday
The launch of @davidolusoga.bsky.social #AHouseThroughTime tonight should give a new lease of life to my mother's excellent book, The People of Calton Hill, which covers the history of the same area in Edinburgh. Published in 1993 but there will be second hand copies out there.
The first episode of the Edinburgh 'A House Through Time' has ridicuously good sources - caricatures, photographs from the 1840s, a diary and a letter. Frankly, it's just showing off 😄 #AHouseThroughTime
Wonderful to see #AHouseThroughTime on TV again! It is exactly what I do (and love!) as a house historian, but it is fabulous that other people get to see and be inspired by #househistories through the programme too 😀 @davidolusoga.bsky.social
House Historian@househistorian.bsky.social · 2d agoThis has popped up suddenly, but for all those who have asked me, When is the next series of #AHouseThroughTime? - it starts tonight!! 😀 This time, @davidolusoga.bsky.social tells the story of a fascinating house in Edinburgh! 😊 On BBCTwo at 9pm & iPlayer! #househistory www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
Society members can now watch the recording of our most recent #OnePlaceStudies webinar—and many more besides—via the Members Area of our website. Also, our Events page has been updated with the dates of our webinars (and AGM/Conference) over the next 6 months. Not a member? Join us and join in!
Society for One-Place Studies@oneplacestudies.bsky.social · last wk.Members! Our webinar this month features contributions from you, in the form of short presentations (of around 10 minutes each) on the theme of holidays and your #OnePlaceStudies. Not a member? Join us and join in! #OnePlaceWednesday
Tonight! Who will be watching #AHouseThroughTime? (And who will be inspired to start exploring the world of #OnePlaceStudies by beginning their own #HouseHistory research?)
Society for One-Place Studies@oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 3d agoThe next series of A House Through Time begins tomorrow, Thursday August 13th, at 9pm on BBC2. In Episode 1 David Olusoga looks at the earliest residents of a house in Edinburgh, from a church minister to one of the city’s finest sculptors. #HouseHistory #OnePlaceWednesday
Cork Heritage Open Day is always one of my favourite days of the year and my busiest. This year I'm giving two talks. One in St Peter's Cork at 11am and another in Nano Nagle Place at 3pm #Cork #HeritageWeek
A rare chance to peek inside Cork's historic buildings on Heritage Day
Cork Heritage Day offers a unique opportunity to see the inside of buildings that are normally not open to the public.
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My book has a new title: A History of the Census Takers and for those of you who have pre-ordered you can expect to receive it early September. Pen and Sword Books: A History of the Census Takers - Hardback share.google/zJ7mQZx8EuDW... #Genealogy #Ancestry
A History of the Census Takers
Every census entry tells a story, but beyond these invaluable records lies another. Recording the Nations takes readers behind the scenes of Britain’s census from…
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