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Pam Smith
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Local historian & retired professional genealogist.

Rillington One-Place Study | IHGS Licentiate candidate | Ginger Goodwin’s kin

Lover of old maps, lost railways, quiet churches, and the landscapes that hold our past.

www.rillingtonhistory.com
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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
Posed staff safety image, showing a railwayman leaning out of a guard's van, about to hit his head on a passing signal post. The image caption reads 'Heads - you lose!', with explanatory text above.
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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willsmanonename.bsky.social
Re wills price hike: I’ve hit the ground running. Had all the wills for my Dunster #OnePlaceStudy but not #Sudbourne. I’ve filtered by age the 1858+ burials from my spreadsheet, deleted the under 18s & now searching for the remaining 300+ individuals in the National Probate Index
#OnePlaceWednesday
willsmanonename.bsky.social Liz @willsmanonename.bsky.social · 12d
Wills to increase dramatically in price from 17 November! If you want any for your #OnePlaceStudy, order them soon. I hope the quality of the service improves by the same percentage as the vast increase in cost. Posting early for #OnePlaceWednesday
Probate price shock: What it means for family historians — and how to stay ahead
From 17 November the fee for a copy of a will increases from £1.50 to £16. Read on for practical advice from Fraser & Fraser to help you plan and budget.
www.family-tree.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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A quick #OnePlaceWednesday read for you on our blog, from @wendytm.bsky.social Wendy Tait Mayfield: #OnePlaceStudy Enhances Family Tree.
One Place Study Enhances Family Tree - Society for One-Place Studies
When I first registered my One Place Study of Graveney and Goodnestone in North Kent, I thought I might find the odd ancestor or two to add to the family tree, but I never anticipated quite how that w...
www.one-place-studies.org
November 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
genejean.bsky.social
So looking forward to
your NRY transcripts. Book format for the ERY. Happy days! 👍😀 #HearthTax
November 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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familyhistpod.bsky.social
ICYMI: The first of our new episode type - BRICKDUST with Pam Smith ( @genejean.bsky.social ), where we welcome back a previous guest to hear how their Brick Wall is going...

familyhistoriespodcast.com/2025/09/26/s...

#genealogy #ancestry #FamilyHistory
S01EP09 - BRICKDUST with Pam Smith - The Family Histories Podcast
Host Andrew Martin welcomes back previous guest Pam Smith for this first Brickdust bonus episode - and Pam has an update on Sir Richard Etherington.
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October 30, 2025 at 6:09 PM
genejean.bsky.social
Highlighting the fantastic work of Joe Saunders and his strong case for using title deeds for *everything*! If you’re working on a village history (like me, in the parish of #Rillington and its chapelry of Scampston), you’ll find this especially relevant. #OnePlaceWednesday
October 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
genejean.bsky.social
Two very different memorials about the same man. Dr John Simpson, later Hudleston, was a major landowner in #Rillington & also the man behind the infamous #Knaresborough Castle Yard Riot of 1865–6.

Left his mark in both places I’ve called home. Was he always calling out to me? #OnePlaceWednesday
October 29, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Have you noticed an abandoned or derelict Victorian building near you? 📩 media@victoriansociety.org.uk for a chance for it to be featured in our Top 10 Endangered Buildings list 2026.
🏘️ 🏭⛪ in England & Wales only, built between 1837 - 1914. More here: bit.ly/4hybqrc

#heritage #endangeredbuildings
October 27, 2025 at 11:36 AM
genejean.bsky.social
Starbeck used to be an important junction with heavy goods traffic from the North to Leeds with 40 passenger trains daily. The locomotive shed built in 1857 was extended to become the longest two-track engine shed in Britain. It was a major influence for the rising village of Starbeck. #Railway200
October 23, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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#31DaysOfGraves Day 22: Landscape. The churchyard of St Mary’s in my local #OnePlaceStudy sits within the lovely landscaped parkland of Fawsley, which although not created by ‘Capability’ Brown was later worked on by him. Here we look Southeast across part of Big Waters lake. #OnePlaceWednesday
Photo of a view from a churchyard (part of a gravestone can be seen near the bottom left corner), across sheep pasture (with ewes and lambs) and over a strip of water to more fields beyond. There are plenty of trees in this view, around the edge of the lake and beyond.
October 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
genejean.bsky.social
Every now a then a previously unknown book surfaces that’s exactly what’s needed for my #IHGSLicentiate research. This could not be more timely as landowners played a vital part in the mid C19 during the coming of the railway. Lucky me! @ihgs.bsky.social #Rillington #OnePlaceWednesday #LocalHistory
October 22, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Magnificence in blue and gold.

#CarlisleCathedral #churchcrawling #sacredspaces
October 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
October 7, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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wendytm.bsky.social
Celebrating #OnePlaceWednesday by completing the first draft of my book on the history of #GraveneyGoodnestone school. Started as a booklet to commemorate 150 years and became 45000 words. 😂 Now need to get it reviewed.
October 8, 2025 at 7:15 AM
genejean.bsky.social
Don’t make me choose between the beauty of the exterior and interior of #BeverleyMinster. The stonework, light and peace tell a story of faith and craftsmanship that’s echoed throughout the #EastRiding of #Yorkshire for centuries.

#SacredSpace
October 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Early Modern graffiti in Beverley Minster. Joseph Barton was here in 1643!
October 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Who did what in early modern England?

New #OpenAccess book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social, based on thousands of #EarlyModern court depositions 🗃️

Read it: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
This book applies the innovative work-task approach to the history of work, which captures the contribution of all workers and types of work to the early modern economy. Drawing on tens of thousands of court depositions, the authors analyse the individual tasks that made up everyday work for women and men, shedding new light on the gender division of labour, and the ways in which time, space, age and marital status shaped sixteenth and seventeenth-century working life. Combining qualitative and quantitative analysis, the book deepens our understanding of the preindustrial economy, and calls for us to rethink not only who did what, but also the implications of these findings for major debates about structural change, the nature and extent of paid work, and what has been lost as well as gained over the past three centuries of economic development. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core. Cover of Whittle, Jane, Mark Hailwood, Hannah Robb, and Taylor Aucoin. The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. of Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.
October 2, 2025 at 8:18 AM
genejean.bsky.social
On #OnePlaceWednesday, @familyhistpod.bsky.social Brick Dust episode has something for everyone. #FamilyHistory #LocalHistory #Railway#Heraldry #ContinuingEducation
October 1, 2025 at 12:06 PM
genejean.bsky.social
Tindall Bowman, Station Master is the gift that keeps on giving in my @ihgs.bsky.social #Licentiate study of the #railway in #Rillington #OnePlaceWednesday A key player (musician) also - see what I did there?
oneplacestudies.bsky.social Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · Sep 27
In 2018 our members rose to the A to Z Blogging Challenge by writing on the theme of People of My Place. Pam Smith @genejean.bsky.social wrote about Tindall Bowman of Rillington, North Yorkshire, who was Station Master in Pam’s Rillington #OnePlaceStudy for 18 years. #Railway200
An old sepia photograph of Station Master Tindall Bowman in his L.N.E.R. uniform. We see the top part of his body; he is sitting in a chair, body facing towards the left and slightly towards us, with his head turned so that he looking directly at the camera. He is wearing a cap with 'LNER' on the front of it, a jacket, and a bow tie. He has a moustache, neatly-trimmed beard, and sideburns.
October 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Nice #RailwayFamily #FamilyHistory piece here!

#Railway200

railuk.com/general-inte...
Railway 200: Four generations of railway service and still loving life on the rails - Rail UK
Railway 200: Four generations of railway service and still loving life on the rails - General Interest
railuk.com
September 30, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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If #Railway200 has sparked or rekindled your interest in #RailwayHistory, and you fancy study at Masters or PhD level - then come & study with Dr Mike Esbester at the University of Portsmouth!

An expert in railway, transport & mobility history:

www.port.ac.uk/about-us/str...
Mike Esbester
www.port.ac.uk
September 27, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Delighted to return to @familyhistpod.bsky.social!

Andrew & I discuss the IHGS Licentiate, #GingerGoodwin & how I solved my brick wall on Sir Richard Etherington in #Rillington #OnePlaceStudy

I was one of the first guests back in Series 1 & the first to take part in the Brick Dust series.
familyhistpod.bsky.social The Family Histories Podcast @familyhistpod.bsky.social · Sep 26
S01EP09 – BRICKDUST with Pam Smith

Join host Andrew and guest Pam Smith from Season One for this first Brickdust episode: Did Pam break through her brick wall and find the Etherington connection?
S01EP09 – BRICKDUST with Pam Smith
Join host Andrew and guest Pam Smith from Season One for this first Brickdust episode: Did Pam break through her brick wall and find the Etherington connection?
familyhistoriespodcast.com
September 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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oneplacestudies.bsky.social
We promised some new material from us for #AATP25, and the first video is now live on our #OnePlaceStudies YouTube channel! Check out Mini-AATP - Welcome and getting started presented by @willsmanonename.bsky.social Liz Craig on this wonderful #OnePlaceWednesday
All About That Place. Image: The title slide for a YouTube video presentation, "One-Place Studies" by Liz Craig. youtube.com/@oneplacestudies/videos Images: logos of the Society of Genealogists, the Society for One-Place Studies, Project Kin, and the British Association for Local History. #AATP25
September 24, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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IHGS has shaped my own #genealogy journey, if you’re at The Family History Show in London on 4th October, make sure to stop by their stand! #OnePlaceWednesday
ihgs.bsky.social IHGS - The School of Family History @ihgs.bsky.social · Sep 24
We will be at The Family History Show, London 2025 on 4th October 2025. Do come and visit our stand and say hello. #FamilyHistoryShow thefamilyhistoryshow.com/london/ #genealogy #familyhistory
September 24, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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#AATP25 is brought to you by @sogorg.bsky.social, in partnership with ourselves, @projectkin.bsky.social and @balhnews.bsky.social. Visit the SoG Facebook page for more AATP posts from them, and the AATP Playlists from 2023 and 2024 on YouTube to enjoy amazing AATP videos! #OnePlaceWednesday
Two screen grabs from playlists on the Society of Genealogists' YouTube channel, for All About That Place 2023, and All About That Place 2024.
September 24, 2025 at 8:51 AM