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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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
✦ 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
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If you haven't spent all your money on Pevsners in the Yale 50% off sale, Boydell have a 60% off hardbacks sale running until 2 December! For example, Trevor Cooper's brilliant 'The Journal of WIlliam Dowsing' is reduced from £60 to just £24. more here: boydellandbrewer.com
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November 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
If you haven't spent all your money on Pevsners in the Yale 50% off sale, Boydell have a 60% off hardbacks sale running until 2 December! For example, Trevor Cooper's brilliant 'The Journal of WIlliam Dowsing' is reduced from £60 to just £24. more here: boydellandbrewer.com
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This week's #TithePlanTuesday comes from the parish of Ballaugh. In 1840, Ellan Rhennee and Ballakeoge belonged to James Wilks, son of Elizabeth Christian and the Reverend James Wilks (described by A.W. Moore in Manx Worthies as 'the ablest Manx clergyman of his time'). #ManxArchives #IsleOfMan
November 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
This week's #TithePlanTuesday comes from the parish of Ballaugh. In 1840, Ellan Rhennee and Ballakeoge belonged to James Wilks, son of Elizabeth Christian and the Reverend James Wilks (described by A.W. Moore in Manx Worthies as 'the ablest Manx clergyman of his time'). #ManxArchives #IsleOfMan
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A collection of new stories for you www.fewforgottenwomen.com/post/a-pot-p... #WomensHistory #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #SocialHistory
A Pot Pourri of Women's Stories
We have a real mixture of stories for you this time, as we catch up on some previous Forgotten Women Friday submissions. There are also the new stand-alone stories of Harriet Basham, Mary Ann Elizabet...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
A collection of new stories for you www.fewforgottenwomen.com/post/a-pot-p... #WomensHistory #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #SocialHistory
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Dig deeper into your Scottish roots at the Scottish Indexes Conference on 31 Jan 2026.
Free online talks on marriage, DNA, illicit distilling, church records & more. Save the date!
#Scottish #FamilyHistory #ScottishIndexes #Genealogy #Archives
Free online talks on marriage, DNA, illicit distilling, church records & more. Save the date!
#Scottish #FamilyHistory #ScottishIndexes #Genealogy #Archives
November 25, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Dig deeper into your Scottish roots at the Scottish Indexes Conference on 31 Jan 2026.
Free online talks on marriage, DNA, illicit distilling, church records & more. Save the date!
#Scottish #FamilyHistory #ScottishIndexes #Genealogy #Archives
Free online talks on marriage, DNA, illicit distilling, church records & more. Save the date!
#Scottish #FamilyHistory #ScottishIndexes #Genealogy #Archives
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For #TransportTuesday we have a rather laden cart. It is on Perth Road outside the Tay Rope Works, which ran all the way to Magdalen Yard Road.
The photograph appears to be from 1908 as a poster in the background refers to the London Olympics of that year.
Ref: GD/MUS104/6
The photograph appears to be from 1908 as a poster in the background refers to the London Olympics of that year.
Ref: GD/MUS104/6
November 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
For #TransportTuesday we have a rather laden cart. It is on Perth Road outside the Tay Rope Works, which ran all the way to Magdalen Yard Road.
The photograph appears to be from 1908 as a poster in the background refers to the London Olympics of that year.
Ref: GD/MUS104/6
The photograph appears to be from 1908 as a poster in the background refers to the London Olympics of that year.
Ref: GD/MUS104/6
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Ever wondered what your favourite spot in Oxfordshire looked like back in the day? Our online mapping platform allows you to zoom in on a specific area of the county on a historic map and then compare it side by side with a more recent map. Try it out here: heritagesearch.oxfordshire.gov.uk/mapping
November 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Ever wondered what your favourite spot in Oxfordshire looked like back in the day? Our online mapping platform allows you to zoom in on a specific area of the county on a historic map and then compare it side by side with a more recent map. Try it out here: heritagesearch.oxfordshire.gov.uk/mapping
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Looking along Inglis Street, #Inverness in the mid-1950s with the junction of Baron Taylor's Street and Academy Street on the right
[photo: Jimmy Nairn; source: Highland Photographic Archive]
[photo: Jimmy Nairn; source: Highland Photographic Archive]
November 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Looking along Inglis Street, #Inverness in the mid-1950s with the junction of Baron Taylor's Street and Academy Street on the right
[photo: Jimmy Nairn; source: Highland Photographic Archive]
[photo: Jimmy Nairn; source: Highland Photographic Archive]
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New project launched to uncover Wales’s forgotten herbal medicine traditions
nation.cymru/news/new-pro...
#History #MedicalHistory #WelshHistory
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#History #MedicalHistory #WelshHistory
New project launched to uncover Wales’s forgotten herbal medicine traditions
A major new research project will delve into Wales’s long and often overlooked history of herbal medicine, shedding light on how people treated illness and maintained their health before the arrival o...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:59 AM
New project launched to uncover Wales’s forgotten herbal medicine traditions
nation.cymru/news/new-pro...
#History #MedicalHistory #WelshHistory
nation.cymru/news/new-pro...
#History #MedicalHistory #WelshHistory
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Thanks to Heritage Council funding, digital versions of these parish registers will soon be online. And the precious records of St Luke's Douglas can move from a damp old building to a temperature-controlled archive. #Speirgorm #Ireland 🗃️
November 25, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Thanks to Heritage Council funding, digital versions of these parish registers will soon be online. And the precious records of St Luke's Douglas can move from a damp old building to a temperature-controlled archive. #Speirgorm #Ireland 🗃️
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Happening this evening. I can promise some absolutely gratuitous shots of dendrochronologists in action. Bookings will remain open until 7pmGMT.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
November 25, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Happening this evening. I can promise some absolutely gratuitous shots of dendrochronologists in action. Bookings will remain open until 7pmGMT.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
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Whoop! Exciting news – we are delighted to share that we have been awarded funding from The National Archives Research and Innovation programme for our Mapping the Past for the Future project, which will start next year.
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Whoop! Exciting news – we are delighted to share that we have been awarded funding from The National Archives Research and Innovation programme for our Mapping the Past for the Future project, which will start next year.
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Some good news - at FamilySearch Affiliated libraries, such as IHGS, you can access images of the wills from 1858-1925 AND they are included in the full text search facility. So you may find if your ancestor was mentioned in someone else's will too!
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 25, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Some good news - at FamilySearch Affiliated libraries, such as IHGS, you can access images of the wills from 1858-1925 AND they are included in the full text search facility. So you may find if your ancestor was mentioned in someone else's will too!
A gentle reminder to members that if you want to (re)watch the recording of Jane’s talk on the Irish of her Batley St Mary’s #OnePlaceStudy, it is only available for a few more days.
Missed this month’s #OnePlaceStudies webinar, or want to watch it again? There’s a link to the recording—available until 27 November—in the Members’ Area of our website.
Recordings of many past webinars & conference presentations are among the many benefits of Society membership, a bargain at £10!
Recordings of many past webinars & conference presentations are among the many benefits of Society membership, a bargain at £10!
November 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
A gentle reminder to members that if you want to (re)watch the recording of Jane’s talk on the Irish of her Batley St Mary’s #OnePlaceStudy, it is only available for a few more days.
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Currently available in the Black Friday Sale - this course is always fun to lead
Discovering More About Your Agricultural Labouring Ancestors. This course helps to set Ag. Labs. in a broader context and suggests sources that will reveal more about the lives of those rural ancestors. www.pharostutors.com/discovering-...
November 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Currently available in the Black Friday Sale - this course is always fun to lead
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Today's blog looks at Birmingham born, Jane Bunford (1895 - 1922) who was the UK's tallest woman, estimated to be around 7 feet 9 inches: theironroom.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/j...
Photo Ref - WK/B6/163 #LibraryofBham
Photo Ref - WK/B6/163 #LibraryofBham
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Today's blog looks at Birmingham born, Jane Bunford (1895 - 1922) who was the UK's tallest woman, estimated to be around 7 feet 9 inches: theironroom.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/j...
Photo Ref - WK/B6/163 #LibraryofBham
Photo Ref - WK/B6/163 #LibraryofBham
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📣 Do you live in the SOUTH WEST? We need your nominations for our Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2026! Email us about your local threatened, dilapidated and neglected Victorian and Edwardian buildings. 🧵
Read more here: bit.ly/4hybqrc
📷 Morgan Ellis Leah
Read more here: bit.ly/4hybqrc
📷 Morgan Ellis Leah
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
📣 Do you live in the SOUTH WEST? We need your nominations for our Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2026! Email us about your local threatened, dilapidated and neglected Victorian and Edwardian buildings. 🧵
Read more here: bit.ly/4hybqrc
📷 Morgan Ellis Leah
Read more here: bit.ly/4hybqrc
📷 Morgan Ellis Leah
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Amazing maps indeed! The survey was carried out from around 1958 to 1974; coverage for England and Wales looks to be complete but coverage of Scotland much less so. I'm already checking what the maps show for my local #OnePlaceStudy to compare land use there now, with what this survey recorded.
This #MapMonday we celebrate an amazing crowd-sourced project, the Second Land Utilisation Survey of Great Britain.
Directed by Professor Alice Coleman, the project involved over 3,000 volunteers, including university students and schoolchildren.
Explore the maps > maps.nls.uk/additions/#189
Directed by Professor Alice Coleman, the project involved over 3,000 volunteers, including university students and schoolchildren.
Explore the maps > maps.nls.uk/additions/#189
November 24, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Amazing maps indeed! The survey was carried out from around 1958 to 1974; coverage for England and Wales looks to be complete but coverage of Scotland much less so. I'm already checking what the maps show for my local #OnePlaceStudy to compare land use there now, with what this survey recorded.
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Our new South Ronaldsay field-names site is up and running:
fieldsoftime.cmackenzie.net
fieldsoftime.cmackenzie.net
November 24, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Our new South Ronaldsay field-names site is up and running:
fieldsoftime.cmackenzie.net
fieldsoftime.cmackenzie.net
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Black Friday sale! Pharos are offering 15% off ALL our family history, local history, genetic genealogy, one place and one name courses, until the end of 1st December. Use code FRIDAY15 at checkout. For T&C see www.pharostutors.com/black-friday... #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Ancestry #OnlineCourses
November 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Black Friday sale! Pharos are offering 15% off ALL our family history, local history, genetic genealogy, one place and one name courses, until the end of 1st December. Use code FRIDAY15 at checkout. For T&C see www.pharostutors.com/black-friday... #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Ancestry #OnlineCourses
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This winter, Local History Hub is running free online info sessions for teachers, school leaders, academy trusts, local authorities and heritage organisations across the UK.
More than 175 people have taken part so far. ❤️
Reserve your place: forms.office.com/e/NjM6T0QBuu
More than 175 people have taken part so far. ❤️
Reserve your place: forms.office.com/e/NjM6T0QBuu
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November 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM
This winter, Local History Hub is running free online info sessions for teachers, school leaders, academy trusts, local authorities and heritage organisations across the UK.
More than 175 people have taken part so far. ❤️
Reserve your place: forms.office.com/e/NjM6T0QBuu
More than 175 people have taken part so far. ❤️
Reserve your place: forms.office.com/e/NjM6T0QBuu
There was a lot of discussion about #OnePlaceFood (not related to that being our #OnePlaceStudies blogging prompt for December 2022!) in the Zoom chat after our Conference on Saturday, so I just have to share this...
The @nlireland.bsky.social is inviting people to step back into the #kitchens of Ireland’s 18th and 19th-century big houses with the release of centuries-old #winter #recipes for food lovers and amateur cooks to recreate at home: www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...
Recreate 18th and 19th-century warming winter recipes at home
The National Library of Ireland (NLI ) is inviting people to step back into the kitchens of Ireland’s 18th and 19th-century big houses with the release of centuries-old winter recipes for food l...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
There was a lot of discussion about #OnePlaceFood (not related to that being our #OnePlaceStudies blogging prompt for December 2022!) in the Zoom chat after our Conference on Saturday, so I just have to share this...
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A really interesting building, with its arches, recessed and variously coloured brickwork - and then cut through with those huge doors! 😀
Newark, Nottinghamshire.
Newark, Nottinghamshire.
November 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
A really interesting building, with its arches, recessed and variously coloured brickwork - and then cut through with those huge doors! 😀
Newark, Nottinghamshire.
Newark, Nottinghamshire.
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Her latest post is in my to-do pile as she mentions a boatman! Quite a few of her names are familiar to my research so her work is going to be invaluable for me. Thanks Glenys! #OnePlaceStudies
November 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Her latest post is in my to-do pile as she mentions a boatman! Quite a few of her names are familiar to my research so her work is going to be invaluable for me. Thanks Glenys! #OnePlaceStudies
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After researching the Hill family of Finger-I’ the Hole in her Lost Hamlets of Rowley Regis #OnePlaceStudy, Glenys Sykes is now looking at others in the hamlet to see how they are linked to the Hills. Check out Families of the Lost Hamlets – Finger-I’ the Hole, the 1841 Census on #OnePlaceWednesday.
Families of the Lost Hamlets – Finger-I’ the Hole, the 1841 Census
Having researched the Hill family of Finger-I’ the Hole (later known as Gadd’s Green) at such length in previous posts to my blog, I have been looking at what to explore next. As I concluded at th…
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November 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
After researching the Hill family of Finger-I’ the Hole in her Lost Hamlets of Rowley Regis #OnePlaceStudy, Glenys Sykes is now looking at others in the hamlet to see how they are linked to the Hills. Check out Families of the Lost Hamlets – Finger-I’ the Hole, the 1841 Census on #OnePlaceWednesday.
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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 1:22 PM
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.