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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! www.one-place-studies.org

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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · Feb 12

A few useful links to pages and resources on the Society for #OnePlaceStudies website:

✦ Home page
✦ About us
✦ What is a one-place study?
✦ A guide to one-place studies (PDF)
✦ Registered Studies
✦ Blogging prompts
✦ Events
✦ Join us

#OnePlaceWednesday

The cover of our e-booklet (cropped from portrait to square). The top half features a photo of houses and streets on the edge of a village, with fields and trees beyond. The bottom half features the title: The Society for One-Place Studies Presents A Guide to One-Place Studies.

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Borthwick Institute for Archives @uoyborthwick.bsky.social · 5h

Perceptions of mental health and its treatment have changed enormously over the past 250 years. This #WorldMentalHealthDay we're pleased to announce you can now view records from 3 of York's historic psychiatric hospitals online: Bootham Park, Clifton and The Retreat
discover.york.ac.uk/collections/

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Alan Godfrey Maps @alangodfreymaps.bsky.social · 5h

A 120-year-old map might not seem to have much of a connection to someone alive today, but what it portrays may still be there, in a new purpose or as a solid monument to much older times.
The lines on the page can evoke lost family or friends.

www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/yorks17411.htm
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-Andrew.

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Friends of Toowong Cemetery @fotc.au · 18h

#31DaysOfGraves Day 10 - Urn

An urn on top of James Forsyth Thallon's memorial.

Dig deeper: www.fotc.au/research/jam...

James Forsyth Thallon's memorial in Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane, Portion 11, Section 71, Grave 14.

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 1h

We're hosting a great free talk about Victorian Crime and Punishment! This talk takes place online and is a great chance to learn about the 19th century criminal justice system.

Book your space by emailing us at [email protected]

For more events, head to histfestbucks.co.uk

A 19th century illustration of the Court House in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, next to the History Festival branding. Below it is the following text:

'Victorian Crime and Punishment

Online

12/11/25, 15:00-16:00'.

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Julie Muirhead (The Lineage Finder) @thelineagefinder.bsky.social · 7h

St Mary Bourne One-Place Study

app.weare.xyz/public/st-ma...

#StMaryBourne #OnePlaceStudy #LocalHistory #Genealogy #FamilyHistory

St Mary Bourne One-Place Study

We Are [showcasing your family history like never before]

app.weare.xyz

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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 5h

#31DaysOfGraves day 10 urn. The Learmonth family grave at Osmondwall (Ousna), South Walls #Orkney. They were from the Lyness area in my #OnePlaceStudy #NorthWallsAndBrims but there was no kirkyard there until the later 1910s. (Top cut off due to focus on inscription.🤦🏻)

White painted gravestone with a draped urn on top in a grassy kirkyard with wooden gate and stone wall in the background. Inscription on gravestone reads: Erected in loving memory of Margaret Robertson wife of Henry Learmonth who died 26th March 1914 aged 68 years. Also their children William Henry who died 18th May 1878 aged 7 years, Margaret Jane who died 14th June aged 18 years, and the above Henry Learmonth who died 7th March 1921 aged 78 years.

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Allie Nickell @alliethinks.bsky.social · 5h

Have hit the limits of both sites now - if anyone knows where I might find issues of the Irish Times from 1946 and 1948-50 without buying a full newspaper subscription, please let me know. (The Internet Archive has nothing after 1945, and FmP/BNA has 1947 but nothing else in the 1940s).

Allie Nickell @alliethinks.bsky.social · 17d

Hurrah for the Internet Archive plugging some of the gaps in the BNA's / FindMyPast's run of the Irish Times. Started the day frustrated that some of the articles I was looking for weren't available on FmP, but have now found them (and more) in the Internet Archive 🎉. #IrishGenealogy

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Andrew Martin @familytreeuk.bsky.social · 5h

I'm traveling back in time 4000 years tomorrow.... including visiting Ruth Bramley (Season Two guest on @familyhistpod.bsky.social) who'll be in the Bronze Age, all via a #Cambridgeshire village!

www.arkenstallcentre.org.uk/haddenham-ou... #history #events #LocalHistory

Poster advertising 'Our Village Through Time - Haddenham' event on 11th October 2025 at Haddenham, Cambridgeshire.

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Friends of Warriston Cemetery @fowarristoncem.bsky.social · 4h

#31DaysOfGraves Day 10 - Urn: We have so many great examples at Warriston that I'm going to do a double post. Sadly, due to historic vandalism, many have been toppled to the ground. #Edinburgh #taphophile #WarristonCemetery 1/2

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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 6h

History isn’t just about who was in power, it is also about who were the people. If our focus is solely on who was at the top and what was happening in the palaces, stately homes and Houses of Parliament, we miss the stories of everyone else. And ‘everyone else’ was the majority of the population.

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Liz Craig @willsmanonename.bsky.social · 17h

The grave of my great great grandparents Charles & Annie (Raymer) Keer, in my #OnePlaceStudy of #Sudbourne
#31DaysOfGraves
Day 9: hands

A hand reaching down from the top of a gravestone, holding flowers

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SusanM @samcaligal.bsky.social · 17h

The history of a place adds significantly to stories of our ancestors. Community defined their lives in so many ways. My German Bohemian ancestry —

www.tracingsbysam.com/germboh.html

#FamilyHistory #OnePlaceStudies

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Margaret Ford🌲🏠 @maggief.bsky.social · 17h

Railway workers and managers at Spon Lane Station West Bromwich. Station next to chance Glassworks
The area of glassworks part of my One Place Study West Smethwick
#railways
#westBromwich
#Oldbury
#OnePlaceStudy

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Liz Craig @willsmanonename.bsky.social · 16h

A hand with a heart in its palm

#31DaysOfGraves
Day 9: hands

A gravestone with a hand with a heart in its palm

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 2d

Doulton’s headquarters & factory building, #Lambeth #London
Architect - R. Stark Wilkinson - 1878

High #Victorian #Gothic architecture, with decorative details of Doulton’s terracotta.

#Exeter born, Stark Wilkinson designed the Digby Hospital, #Devon in 1886.

#WallsOnWednesday
#WindowsOnWednesday

A gothic corner building with turret, many windows & terracotta details.

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Friends of Lister Lane Cemetery (KAVS) @listerlanecem.bsky.social · 1d

#31DaysOfGraves Day 9: Hand
Gravestone showing hand with finger pointing upwards and commmemorating a 'Dear mother' Mary Ann Greenwood, who died 9th June 1892, aged 44.

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Newcastle Uni Special Collections & Archives @ncllibspeccoll.bsky.social · 1d

New on CollectionsCaptured is a wonderfully illustrated set of 17 proof copies of early 17th Century maps, later included in John Speed's 'Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine'.

All 17 pages can be seen here on CollectionsCaptured: collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk/digital/coll...
[Ref. Freinds/JSM]

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Cristina @nightowlgenealogy.bsky.social · 18h

Great news for Wisconsin researchers. The Wisconsin Historical Society is migrating over to a new and more efficient site. See what they currently have here:
explore.wishistory.org
#Genealogy
#WisconsinGenealogy

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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 18h

Got some great #OnePlaceStudy records this way (Bishops Transcripts, School Log Book, Overseers Accounts, Vestry Minutes)! Some transcribed and added to my Waters Upton website, some still to be completed. Thanks again Áine! #GenHour

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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 19h

If the archives you need for your #FamilyHistory, #LocalHistory or #OnePlaceStudy research are difficult to get to, do check out what you can access remotely such as online catalogues with item descriptions/images, or virtual searchrooms! #GenHour

Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know that even if you can't get to us in person, we're still open for research? Our virtual services are free to use no matter where you're researching from.

For more info, head to buckinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-and-tourism/archives/book-a-session-in-our-virtual-searchroom/

A black and white image of a computer lab with two people working. Text has been placed over the image saying 'Access the Archive Virtually, Research Anything from Anywhere'

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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 19h

Hope all that passes and you are back on top form soon Emily. #GenHour

Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 19h

#HouseHistory resources might help. Including, if they survive, rate books, in the relevant archive. For more possibilities, check out this video. 🙂 #GenHour

House History

YouTube video by Society for One-Place Studies

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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 19h

Boosting for the evening (including #GenHour) crowd! The links in both parts of our #AATP25 blog post include @sogorg.bsky.social YouTube playlists, @projectkin.bsky.social content, and the #OnePlaceStudy videos we released for the event.

Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 23h

A look back at the second half of #AATP25, with links to videos and more, in All About That Place 2025: Days 6 to 10).

Plus, an invitation to get vlogging, as well as blogging, about your #OnePlaceStudies (members – our YouTube channel needs 👉🏻you!👈🏻).

All About That Place 2025: Days 6 to 10 - Society for One-Place Studies

Following on from All About That Place 2025: Days 1 to 5, let’s now conclude our summary of #AATP25. The second half of this year’s ‘Mini-AATP’ followed the pattern of the first, with a theme for each...

www.one-place-studies.org

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Dave Annal Lifelines Research @davelifelines.bsky.social · 19h

Looking forward to this on Tuesday 21 October…

Society of Genealogists @sogorg.bsky.social · 19h

☕ #GenHour - Lunchtime Chat on Zoom: A Stroll Around Fleet Street
Join @elsesoggenealogist.bsky.social & @davelifelines.bsky.social for a relaxed, members-only chat exploring ancestors’ lives through maps & records.
🗓️ Tue 21 Oct, 12:30–14:00 | Online | Not recorded
Book now portal.sog.org.uk/Ev...

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Weird Bristol @weirdbristol.bsky.social · 19h

In 1872, Redland Court (built in 1732) was the scene of a daylight robbery when burglars used a ladder to enter an upstairs room as homeowner George O. Edwards and his family dined downstairs.
The thieves took only a few items but the crime made headlines across the country.
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