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Jackie Depelle @jackiedepelle.bsky.social · 1d

Essential reading for #FamilyHiistory #LocalHistory and #HouseHistory @balhnews.bsky.social @oneplacestudies.bsky.social

Family History Federation @federationfhs.bsky.social · 1d

Sign up to receive our Really Useful Bulletin into your inbox every month! www.familyhistoryfederation.com/subscribe-to...

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Jackie Depelle @jackiedepelle.bsky.social · 4d

Pick of the month What's On - November 2025 @wdytyamagazine.bsky.social #Yorkshire #FamilyHiistory Fair in #Huddersfield Stands and talk details hdfhs.org.uk/the-family-h... @huddsfhs.bsky.social

Our Family History Fair | Huddersfield and District Family History Society

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Family History Federation @federationfhs.bsky.social · 13d

Read all about it! Have a look through our latest Really Useful Bulletin, full of excellent news and insight for #FamilyHistory! This month with a lead article 'The Story of Emigration - 1850-1914'. www.exploreyourgenealogy.co.uk/bulletins

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British Association for Local History @balhnews.bsky.social · 7d

Join us next week for a fascinating webinar looking at the history and legacy of votes for women!

Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-v...

#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll

Worn fabric banner with green text reading 'Votes for Women in 1912' advocating women's suffrage.

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Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine @wdytyamagazine.bsky.social · 14d

Tribunal upholds 'catastrophic' Ancestry request to access Scottish family history records:

www.whodoyouthinkyouaremaga...

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Alan Godfrey Maps @alangodfreymaps.bsky.social · 10d

New map today!
Alan Godfrey’s hit this one for six – Lord’s & St John’s Wood Road 1866-1921.

This map is an absolute corker and a complete all-rounder for fans of everything #Cricket, #History, #London, #Architecture and much, much more…

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OldRailwayAccidents @rwldproject.bsky.social · 12d

Good to see the National Railway Museum Station Hall pieces coming out!

And here's a sneaky look at the section to which the Railway Work, Life & Death project has contributed...👍👏

#Railway200

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Prosthetic leg in display case, with technical diagram behind.

Caption for infographic, crediting Railway Work, Life & Death project.

Infographic showing railway shunters killed and injured at work, 1900-39, represented with outline figures of people.

Interpretation board, with project infographic, and steam engine and stock behind.

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Jackie Depelle @jackiedepelle.bsky.social · 12d

Good to see active @alangodfreymaps.bsky.social account. Current subscription offers #Doncaster #Cambridgeshire #Exeter - lots of reduced railway maps www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/subscription... @doncasterdistfhs.bsky.social @devonfhs.bsky.social @balhnews.bsky.social @federationfhs.bsky.social

Subscriptions to the Godfrey Edition

www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk

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Yorkshire Vernacular Buildings Study Group @yvbsg.bsky.social · 12d

Join us on Saturday 18 October at our follow-up day to hear about buildings we recorded in the south Bradford area in May. We'll also have a walk around the historic buildings of Wibsey. Everybody welcome! Booking details at www.yvbsg.org.uk/events.html.

House in Low Moor surveyed by the YVBSG in May 2025.

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Alan Godfrey Maps @alangodfreymaps.bsky.social · 13d

THIS MAP HALF PRICE AT www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/acatalog/Sto...
SORRY FOR SHOUTING BUT HOW'S THAT FOR A BARGAIN?!

#Railway200

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Alan Godfrey Maps @alangodfreymaps.bsky.social · 15d

#Winchester is so full of #history they should export some of it to quieter places to air the stories out a bit and give them a chance to be heard properly, beyond the cramped city cacophony of past lives and events.

www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/winchester.htm

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Jackie Depelle @jackiedepelle.bsky.social · 23d

Thanks to @leedscivictrust.bsky.social and #HeritageOpenDays managed an interesting talk and partial tour of recently trestored Ledston Hall, #Yorkshire www.countrylife.co.uk/property/led...

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British Association for Local History @balhnews.bsky.social · 26d

Save the date for our Annual Dymond Lecture! On 11 December, we'll be hosting our annual winter lecture named after the late David Dymond.

Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-b...

#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll

The late David Dymond in a beige suit and blue shirt holding a book titled 'Researching and Writing History' inside a wood-paneled room with marble column.

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British Association for Local History @balhnews.bsky.social · 24d

Join us on 15 October for a virtual lecture all about the Drax family's 500-year involvement in the sugar trade through newly published research.

Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-d...

#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll

Sailors unloading barrels from boats onto a shore with several large sailing ships in the calm sea under a cloudy sky.

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British Association for Local History @balhnews.bsky.social · Sep 8

Join us on 8 October for a fascinating webinar looking at the history and legacy of votes for women!

Find out more: ow.ly/H2Ch50Wqnov

#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll

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Association of Professional Genealogists (APG) @apgenealogists.bsky.social · Aug 24

APG is seeking nominations for leadership roles! We're looking for candidates for four officer positions, six Board members, and two Nominations Committee members. Nominate yourself or someone else by 25 August 2025. Details and nominations here: members.apgen.org/ct.php

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Jackie Depelle @jackiedepelle.bsky.social · Aug 18

Sounds interesting with more useful Family Historian software sessions coming up online fhzg.co.uk/future.html

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Jackie Depelle @jackiedepelle.bsky.social · Aug 13

Beneficial #FreeUKGen project @oneplacestudies.bsky.social @federationfhs.bsky.social @balhnews.bsky.social #GuildOneName

Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine @wdytyamagazine.bsky.social · Aug 13

Free UK Genealogy, the charity behind FreeBMD, FreeREG and FreeCEN, has started a crowdfunder for a new free probate records website:

www.whodoyouthinkyouaremaga...

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · Aug 12

Vacancy with the Royal Historical Society: Membership and Office Administrator bit.ly/46TgZNA

We look to appoint a Membership and Office Administrator (0.8 FTE) to join our professional Office to help us support history and historians. £31,904 pro rata. Closing date Monday 8 September #Skystorians

Vacancy: the Society seeks to appoint a Membership and Office Administrator - RHS

The Royal Historical Society seeks to appoint a Membership and Office Administrator (0.8 FTE) to join its professional Office based at University College London. The post will help support and develop...

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Jackie Depelle @jackiedepelle.bsky.social · Aug 6

Great article especially worth highlighting the fascinating lead image - an 1852 view of #Whitby #Yorkshire

Dave Annal Lifelines Research @davelifelines.bsky.social · Aug 4

The September 2025 issue of @familytreeplus.bsky.social has just dropped through my door.

My FT Academy piece is a case study featuring one of the most remarkable stories I’ve ever researched. If Bryan Dean was dead in 1881, how come he appears in the 1911 census?

Read all about the Life of Bryan…

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Jackie Depelle @jackiedepelle.bsky.social · Aug 5

Useful information for anyone researching #FamilyHiistory #LocalHistory or ##HouseHistory in #Yorkshire especially the dedicated East Riding Deeds Registry @balhnews.bsky.social @oneplacestudies.bsky.social @federationfhs.bsky.social

Society of Genealogists @sogorg.bsky.social · Aug 4

🔎 Researching ancestors in East Yorkshire?
Our recent collab with East Riding Archives & East Yorkshire FHS is now on YouTube!
📺 Learn about archives, local studies + tools like Vision of Britain, @historictownstrust.bsky.social & @vchlondon.bsky.social.
▶️ Watch here: youtu.be/L1_nm0ynr8U

Researching in East Yorkshire

Are you researching ancestors in East Yorkshire? This is a collaboration between Society of Genealogists, East Riding Archives and Local Studies Service and East Yorkshire Family History Society. Join us to learn about family history resources for the East Riding. We will also learn how A Vision of

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Yorkshire Vernacular Buildings Study Group @yvbsg.bsky.social · Aug 3

Many of the buildings we record are of a more modest nature but now and again we take on the challenge of a larger, higher status, building! Here are some of the grander houses we have recorded over the years: Ingleby Manor, Knedlington Old Hall, Well Hall, and Hammerton Hall.

Knedlington Old Hall, Knedlington, Howden

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Yorkshire Vernacular Buildings Study Group @yvbsg.bsky.social · Aug 1

Happy #YorkshireDay! Let's celebrate the county's fabulous vernacular architecture (Worsbrough, Threshfield, Beck Hole, Haworth).

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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · Jul 30

#OnePlaceWednesday thanks to @varchgroup.bsky.social for flagging up the updated Dendrochronology Database🔗 – it includes a felling range of 1514-39 for timber in The Dower House in my Fawsley #OnePlaceStudy. Other records, project archives, reports & articles can be found via the Search Data page.

Photo of the ruins of an old house (The Dower House) set amongst the mature trees and rough grazing of Fawsley Park. Partly made from brick, and partly from sandy-coloured stone, only walls, window frames and a few ornate brick chimney stacks remain.

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Vernacular Architecture Group @varchgroup.bsky.social · Jul 26

Call for Papers! VAG Winter Conference at University of Nottingham, 10 and 11 January 2026. Theme: 'Vernacular buildings in urban contexts: The study of urban building types and integration with urban studies'. Papers invited - full details in the CFP at www.vag.org.uk.

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