Jackie Depelle
@jackiedepelle.bsky.social
Family and Local History enthusiast, ex-WEA. Member Family History Societies, British Association for Local History, MC Guild One Name Studies, Society for One Place Studies etc! Based in Yorkshire, God's Own County.
www.yourfairladies.co.uk
www.yourfairladies.co.uk
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December 6, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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How about @ihgs.bsky.social #Heraldry students?
And can anyone name another family which has a tortoise on its coat of arms?
December 5, 2025 at 11:50 PM
How about @ihgs.bsky.social #Heraldry students?
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The latest post on my blog concerns a Devon family, whose fortune was made by a 17th century physician and mysteriously evaporated in the 19th century: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/12/619-...
December 5, 2025 at 11:41 AM
The latest post on my blog concerns a Devon family, whose fortune was made by a 17th century physician and mysteriously evaporated in the 19th century: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/12/619-...
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🚨NEXT WEEK!🚨
Railway Work, Life & Death project co-lead Mike is privileged to give the 2025 @balhnews.bsky.social Dymond Lecture!
‘Heads – you lose!’ Working for the railways in Britain before 1939
Thursday 11 December 2025, 7pm, online
#LocalHistory #Railway200
www.balh.org.uk/dymond2025
Railway Work, Life & Death project co-lead Mike is privileged to give the 2025 @balhnews.bsky.social Dymond Lecture!
‘Heads – you lose!’ Working for the railways in Britain before 1939
Thursday 11 December 2025, 7pm, online
#LocalHistory #Railway200
www.balh.org.uk/dymond2025
December 4, 2025 at 11:02 AM
🚨NEXT WEEK!🚨
Railway Work, Life & Death project co-lead Mike is privileged to give the 2025 @balhnews.bsky.social Dymond Lecture!
‘Heads – you lose!’ Working for the railways in Britain before 1939
Thursday 11 December 2025, 7pm, online
#LocalHistory #Railway200
www.balh.org.uk/dymond2025
Railway Work, Life & Death project co-lead Mike is privileged to give the 2025 @balhnews.bsky.social Dymond Lecture!
‘Heads – you lose!’ Working for the railways in Britain before 1939
Thursday 11 December 2025, 7pm, online
#LocalHistory #Railway200
www.balh.org.uk/dymond2025
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UK National Archives to raise fees and introduce new Request A Military Service Record service scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2025/12/uk-n... #genealogy #military #archives
UK National Archives to raise fees and introduce new Request A Military Service Record service
From Scotland, a daily news blog about genealogy, family history and personal heritage.
scottishgenes.blogspot.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
UK National Archives to raise fees and introduce new Request A Military Service Record service scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2025/12/uk-n... #genealogy #military #archives
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Thanks Jackie! Looking forward to this - it's a fun line up, should be a really interesting day.
Great to come back & update the Guild on the Railway Work, Life & Death project - lots to say, as the last time I was in was 2018!
#GuildOneName
Great to come back & update the Guild on the Railway Work, Life & Death project - lots to say, as the last time I was in was 2018!
#GuildOneName
November 30, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Thanks Jackie! Looking forward to this - it's a fun line up, should be a really interesting day.
Great to come back & update the Guild on the Railway Work, Life & Death project - lots to say, as the last time I was in was 2018!
#GuildOneName
Great to come back & update the Guild on the Railway Work, Life & Death project - lots to say, as the last time I was in was 2018!
#GuildOneName
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Just a quick mention of the fact that my blog (landedfamilies.blogspot.com) will pass a significant milestone in the next day or two: 5 million page-views. From my first post early in 2013 it has been quite a journey!
Landed families of Britain and Ireland
This site, which was short-listed for the Society of Architectural Historians (GB) Colvin Prize in 2019, presents my research into the landowning families of the British Isles and the country houses w...
landedfamilies.blogspot.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Just a quick mention of the fact that my blog (landedfamilies.blogspot.com) will pass a significant milestone in the next day or two: 5 million page-views. From my first post early in 2013 it has been quite a journey!
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My latest blog post also tells the intriguing story of Westcombe Park, Greenwich,where the 9th Earl of Pembroke and Roger Morris built a pretty villa in 1727-30 which was later greatly extended: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/11/618-...
November 26, 2025 at 9:57 AM
My latest blog post also tells the intriguing story of Westcombe Park, Greenwich,where the 9th Earl of Pembroke and Roger Morris built a pretty villa in 1727-30 which was later greatly extended: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/11/618-...
Booking open for #GuildOneName February 2026 Waterways to Railways in #Peterborough one-name.org/seminar-even... Good speakers include Mike Esbester @rwldproject.bsky.social #GuildOccupations @balhnews.bsky.social @federationfhs.bsky.social @oneplacestudies.bsky.social
Seminar events
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November 26, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Booking open for #GuildOneName February 2026 Waterways to Railways in #Peterborough one-name.org/seminar-even... Good speakers include Mike Esbester @rwldproject.bsky.social #GuildOccupations @balhnews.bsky.social @federationfhs.bsky.social @oneplacestudies.bsky.social
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Members @huddsfhs.bsky.social may find interesting #Huddersfield
A recording of a recent YVBSG talk by Philip Sands on the history of Woodsome Hall near Huddersfield can now be viewed at youtu.be/2PGeqLuA0jg?.... Philip takes us on a virtual tour of the building which has a complicated and fascinating history and has been dendro-dated to 1462.
November 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Members @huddsfhs.bsky.social may find interesting #Huddersfield
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Special *2-4-1* sale!
One place in two different eras (2 maps), including historical notes & other period details!
25 locations, including: #Bristol, #Edinburgh, #Wakefield, #Glasgow, #London, #GreatYarmouth, #Peterborough, #Birmingham!
£3.50 + postage - www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/acatalog/Bar...
One place in two different eras (2 maps), including historical notes & other period details!
25 locations, including: #Bristol, #Edinburgh, #Wakefield, #Glasgow, #London, #GreatYarmouth, #Peterborough, #Birmingham!
£3.50 + postage - www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/acatalog/Bar...
2 for 1 Bargains
www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Special *2-4-1* sale!
One place in two different eras (2 maps), including historical notes & other period details!
25 locations, including: #Bristol, #Edinburgh, #Wakefield, #Glasgow, #London, #GreatYarmouth, #Peterborough, #Birmingham!
£3.50 + postage - www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/acatalog/Bar...
One place in two different eras (2 maps), including historical notes & other period details!
25 locations, including: #Bristol, #Edinburgh, #Wakefield, #Glasgow, #London, #GreatYarmouth, #Peterborough, #Birmingham!
£3.50 + postage - www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/acatalog/Bar...
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Festive Bargains!
2 – 4 – 1 Sale!
25 UK places, decades apart, £3.50 +post!
Subscriptions!
LIVE - #Exeter (starting Jan) & #Cambridge (starting Dec) - £33!
SOON - A new batch of #London Large Scale maps!
Check out our web-shop - www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/acatalog/hom...
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2 – 4 – 1 Sale!
25 UK places, decades apart, £3.50 +post!
Subscriptions!
LIVE - #Exeter (starting Jan) & #Cambridge (starting Dec) - £33!
SOON - A new batch of #London Large Scale maps!
Check out our web-shop - www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/acatalog/hom...
Please *Like* & *Retweet*
November 18, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Festive Bargains!
2 – 4 – 1 Sale!
25 UK places, decades apart, £3.50 +post!
Subscriptions!
LIVE - #Exeter (starting Jan) & #Cambridge (starting Dec) - £33!
SOON - A new batch of #London Large Scale maps!
Check out our web-shop - www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/acatalog/hom...
Please *Like* & *Retweet*
2 – 4 – 1 Sale!
25 UK places, decades apart, £3.50 +post!
Subscriptions!
LIVE - #Exeter (starting Jan) & #Cambridge (starting Dec) - £33!
SOON - A new batch of #London Large Scale maps!
Check out our web-shop - www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/acatalog/hom...
Please *Like* & *Retweet*
Excellent as always #Yorkshire buildings and much more ...
Our November Newsletter is hot off the press! Catch up with all our latest news, including plans for next year - www.yvbsg.org.uk/newsheet.html.
November 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Excellent as always #Yorkshire buildings and much more ...
Moving #WWI medal return- presentation in #Leeds West #Yorkshire @westernfrontww1.bsky.social @cwgc.bsky.social @leedscivictrust.bsky.social @ancestralenq.bsky.social www.google.com/amp/s/www.bb...
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November 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Moving #WWI medal return- presentation in #Leeds West #Yorkshire @westernfrontww1.bsky.social @cwgc.bsky.social @leedscivictrust.bsky.social @ancestralenq.bsky.social www.google.com/amp/s/www.bb...
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This looks great! Just the sort of collaboration our project likes to see - well done all involved 👏
V jealous of whoever gets them - wish this had been available after my PhD!
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V jealous of whoever gets them - wish this had been available after my PhD!
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🎉We are pleased to announce new Applied History Fellowships in partnership with @royalhistsoc.org & @findmypast.bsky.social.
Join us on the 19 November at our launch event to find out more about the Fellowships and how to apply:
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Join us on the 19 November at our launch event to find out more about the Fellowships and how to apply:
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
November 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
This looks great! Just the sort of collaboration our project likes to see - well done all involved 👏
V jealous of whoever gets them - wish this had been available after my PhD!
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V jealous of whoever gets them - wish this had been available after my PhD!
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Gathered in #Leeds with West #Yorkshire #Archives at The Leeds Library www.theleedslibrary.org.uk to hear Steve Burt talk about the treasures of the Thoresby Society
The Leeds Library
Founded in 1768 as a proprietary subscription library and is now the oldest surviving example of this sort of library in the British Isles.
www.theleedslibrary.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Gathered in #Leeds with West #Yorkshire #Archives at The Leeds Library www.theleedslibrary.org.uk to hear Steve Burt talk about the treasures of the Thoresby Society
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🚨ONE MONTH'S TIME!🚨
Railway Work, Life & Death project co-lead Mike is privileged to give the 2025 @balhnews.bsky.social Dymond Lecture!
‘Heads – you lose!’ Working for the railways in Britain before 1939
Thursday 11 December 2025, 7pm, online
#LocalHistory #Railway200
www.balh.org.uk/dymond2025
Railway Work, Life & Death project co-lead Mike is privileged to give the 2025 @balhnews.bsky.social Dymond Lecture!
‘Heads – you lose!’ Working for the railways in Britain before 1939
Thursday 11 December 2025, 7pm, online
#LocalHistory #Railway200
www.balh.org.uk/dymond2025
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
🚨ONE MONTH'S TIME!🚨
Railway Work, Life & Death project co-lead Mike is privileged to give the 2025 @balhnews.bsky.social Dymond Lecture!
‘Heads – you lose!’ Working for the railways in Britain before 1939
Thursday 11 December 2025, 7pm, online
#LocalHistory #Railway200
www.balh.org.uk/dymond2025
Railway Work, Life & Death project co-lead Mike is privileged to give the 2025 @balhnews.bsky.social Dymond Lecture!
‘Heads – you lose!’ Working for the railways in Britain before 1939
Thursday 11 December 2025, 7pm, online
#LocalHistory #Railway200
www.balh.org.uk/dymond2025
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#MapMonday new map repost!
Another beautiful #London map today (Forest Gate, 1867-93), and one that might be a handy accompaniment to the modern resident or visitor, as it details incredible local developments over the last decades of the 19th century. I will turn over the next few posts to the opening words of Tony Kirby…
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November 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
#MapMonday new map repost!
Thanks Chris, good to refresh the history of #Ruhleben and share with new audiences #WWI @devonfhs.bsky.social
Big thanks to Devon FHS tonight for their warm welcome when I gave my talk on British civilian POWs at Ruhleben in the First World War. #genealogy
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Thanks Chris, good to refresh the history of #Ruhleben and share with new audiences #WWI @devonfhs.bsky.social
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We don’t usually have a webinar in November as that’s the month of our AGM and annual conference. This November however we have our AGM and conference *plus* a webinar! @janeroberts.bsky.social Jane Roberts will be giving a presentation on her #OnePlaceStudy of Batley St Mary’s on November 11th.
October 22, 2025 at 7:58 PM
We don’t usually have a webinar in November as that’s the month of our AGM and annual conference. This November however we have our AGM and conference *plus* a webinar! @janeroberts.bsky.social Jane Roberts will be giving a presentation on her #OnePlaceStudy of Batley St Mary’s on November 11th.
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Suffolk Goal Records now on Ancestry www.ancestry.co.uk/s...
Records from houses of correction in Suffolk 1791-1878. Includes receiving books that document an inmate’s admission into a jail. Also lists of inmates confined at gaols Haven't started looking yet, can't wait
Records from houses of correction in Suffolk 1791-1878. Includes receiving books that document an inmate’s admission into a jail. Also lists of inmates confined at gaols Haven't started looking yet, can't wait
November 9, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Suffolk Goal Records now on Ancestry www.ancestry.co.uk/s...
Records from houses of correction in Suffolk 1791-1878. Includes receiving books that document an inmate’s admission into a jail. Also lists of inmates confined at gaols Haven't started looking yet, can't wait
Records from houses of correction in Suffolk 1791-1878. Includes receiving books that document an inmate’s admission into a jail. Also lists of inmates confined at gaols Haven't started looking yet, can't wait
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Free access to military records at Findmypast – an opportunity, if you are not a subscriber, to find records for your #FamilyHistory, #LocalHistory and #OnePlaceStudy research.
Pledge to Remember: Search your family’s military story for free today 🎖️
Search for your parent, grandparent, great-grandparent, or your family name. Each search is a pledge to ensure their service & sacrifice are never forgotten.
Free access until 13th November. T&Cs apply https://bit.ly/3LmtWa3
Search for your parent, grandparent, great-grandparent, or your family name. Each search is a pledge to ensure their service & sacrifice are never forgotten.
Free access until 13th November. T&Cs apply https://bit.ly/3LmtWa3
November 7, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Free access to military records at Findmypast – an opportunity, if you are not a subscriber, to find records for your #FamilyHistory, #LocalHistory and #OnePlaceStudy research.
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Free access to FindmyPast military records from 7-13 November scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2025/11/free... #genealogy
Free access to FindmyPast military records from 7-13 November
From Scotland, a daily news blog about genealogy, family history and personal heritage.
scottishgenes.blogspot.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Free access to FindmyPast military records from 7-13 November scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2025/11/free... #genealogy
My goodness that's disappointing news @federationfhs.bsky.social @oneplacestudies.bsky.social @balhnews.bsky.social @huddsfhs.bsky.social @yorkfhs.bsky.social #GuildOneName
It has just been announced that there will be an increase in fees for Principal Probate wills from 17 November 2025.
The fee for a copy of the will rises from £1.50 to £16 per document. Over a 1000% rise.
Any wills you have been thinking of getting copies of now is the time!
The fee for a copy of the will rises from £1.50 to £16 per document. Over a 1000% rise.
Any wills you have been thinking of getting copies of now is the time!
November 4, 2025 at 9:14 AM
My goodness that's disappointing news @federationfhs.bsky.social @oneplacestudies.bsky.social @balhnews.bsky.social @huddsfhs.bsky.social @yorkfhs.bsky.social #GuildOneName