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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#OnePlaceWednesday, our mid-week Bluesky chat about anything and everything relating to #OnePlaceStudies, returns tomorrow! Whether you have been busy with your OPS or taken a break from it during the festive period, we hope you will join in (and maybe share any OPS hopes / plans for 2026).
Welcome to the last #OnePlaceWednesday of 2025! Use the hashtag, at any time today, in posts—Christmassy or otherwise—relating to #OnePlaceStudies in all their forms, and place-based #FamilyHistory projects. Ask questions, engage in general chat, or share your OPS news, pics, links, highlights etc.
January 6, 2026 at 3:41 PM
#OnePlaceWednesday, our mid-week Bluesky chat about anything and everything relating to #OnePlaceStudies, returns tomorrow! Whether you have been busy with your OPS or taken a break from it during the festive period, we hope you will join in (and maybe share any OPS hopes / plans for 2026).
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Historian Anna Forrest is calling for a memorial to Glasgow’s forgotten Lock Hospital, where thousands of women and girls were confined under the 19th-century “Glasgow System”
www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/scottis...
👉 Read Anna's blog for further details
womenshistoryscotland.org/2025/01/19/n...
www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/scottis...
👉 Read Anna's blog for further details
womenshistoryscotland.org/2025/01/19/n...
The Glasgow Lock Hospital(s) for Unfortunate Females – Women's History Scotland
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January 6, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Historian Anna Forrest is calling for a memorial to Glasgow’s forgotten Lock Hospital, where thousands of women and girls were confined under the 19th-century “Glasgow System”
www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/scottis...
👉 Read Anna's blog for further details
womenshistoryscotland.org/2025/01/19/n...
www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/scottis...
👉 Read Anna's blog for further details
womenshistoryscotland.org/2025/01/19/n...
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What place keeps popping up again and again in your family tree? A tiny village? One particular church? That one county everyone seems to come from? Drop it below 👇 #FamilyHistory #GenealogyFun
January 6, 2026 at 5:04 PM
What place keeps popping up again and again in your family tree? A tiny village? One particular church? That one county everyone seems to come from? Drop it below 👇 #FamilyHistory #GenealogyFun
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A relatively rare example of a marriage licence being granted to the prospective bride rather than the groom, possibly because the groom was a mariner and away at sea although the couple married two days later.
Interesting also that Sarah's bondsman was a 'John Doe' - so she was on her own in this!
Interesting also that Sarah's bondsman was a 'John Doe' - so she was on her own in this!
January 6, 2026 at 5:07 PM
A relatively rare example of a marriage licence being granted to the prospective bride rather than the groom, possibly because the groom was a mariner and away at sea although the couple married two days later.
Interesting also that Sarah's bondsman was a 'John Doe' - so she was on her own in this!
Interesting also that Sarah's bondsman was a 'John Doe' - so she was on her own in this!
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Half way up to the down, some of those fields that were 'inter mixed' between the two parishes, and sometimes caused tithe disputes over which parish the farmers were due to pay their tithe corn and goods to - which has created some useful court cases for me about everyday farming activity!
January 6, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Half way up to the down, some of those fields that were 'inter mixed' between the two parishes, and sometimes caused tithe disputes over which parish the farmers were due to pay their tithe corn and goods to - which has created some useful court cases for me about everyday farming activity!
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Pub name of the day: The Pig and Bee Hive
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Will of Henry Holder, proved 1785
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Will of Henry Holder, proved 1785
January 6, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Pub name of the day: The Pig and Bee Hive
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Will of Henry Holder, proved 1785
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Will of Henry Holder, proved 1785
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Kick started the new work year with another installment of my 'research walk', retracing the parish boundaries of 17thC Portishead for my book on 'Everyday Life in the 17thC Village'. Got a taste of the 'Little Ice Age' - a period of colder temperatures that impacted the 17thC - by going out in -1!
January 6, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Kick started the new work year with another installment of my 'research walk', retracing the parish boundaries of 17thC Portishead for my book on 'Everyday Life in the 17thC Village'. Got a taste of the 'Little Ice Age' - a period of colder temperatures that impacted the 17thC - by going out in -1!
#OnePlaceWednesday, our mid-week Bluesky chat about anything and everything relating to #OnePlaceStudies, returns tomorrow! Whether you have been busy with your OPS or taken a break from it during the festive period, we hope you will join in (and maybe share any OPS hopes / plans for 2026).
Welcome to the last #OnePlaceWednesday of 2025! Use the hashtag, at any time today, in posts—Christmassy or otherwise—relating to #OnePlaceStudies in all their forms, and place-based #FamilyHistory projects. Ask questions, engage in general chat, or share your OPS news, pics, links, highlights etc.
January 6, 2026 at 3:41 PM
#OnePlaceWednesday, our mid-week Bluesky chat about anything and everything relating to #OnePlaceStudies, returns tomorrow! Whether you have been busy with your OPS or taken a break from it during the festive period, we hope you will join in (and maybe share any OPS hopes / plans for 2026).
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Hello friends old and new!
Have you enjoyed our new maps this week?
What would you like to see samples of in future? Which areas are you interested in?!
Let us know!
Thanks in advance for your valued feedback x
- Andrew.
Have you enjoyed our new maps this week?
What would you like to see samples of in future? Which areas are you interested in?!
Let us know!
Thanks in advance for your valued feedback x
- Andrew.
January 6, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Hello friends old and new!
Have you enjoyed our new maps this week?
What would you like to see samples of in future? Which areas are you interested in?!
Let us know!
Thanks in advance for your valued feedback x
- Andrew.
Have you enjoyed our new maps this week?
What would you like to see samples of in future? Which areas are you interested in?!
Let us know!
Thanks in advance for your valued feedback x
- Andrew.
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Now available: from VCH Hampshire and @hobnobpress.bsky.social, Herriard: Records of Life and Work in a Hampshire Village by @dralexcraven.bsky.social uses an extensive estate archive to trace the history of a Hampshire village and the estate of which is it a part.
#Skystorians #NewBook
#Skystorians #NewBook
Herriard: Records of Life and Work in a Hampshire Village, by Alex Craven — Hobnob Press
At the heart of the parish of Herriard, four miles south-east of Basingstoke, lies Herriard House, the home for four centuries of the Jervoise family. Their archive, containing over 250,000 items, tur...
www.hobnobpress.co.uk
January 6, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Now available: from VCH Hampshire and @hobnobpress.bsky.social, Herriard: Records of Life and Work in a Hampshire Village by @dralexcraven.bsky.social uses an extensive estate archive to trace the history of a Hampshire village and the estate of which is it a part.
#Skystorians #NewBook
#Skystorians #NewBook
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Today is #NollaignamBan so we thought we'd feature Mary Whitshed, from the Guild of St Anne Collection. Her seal below was impressed onto a grant from the Guild for a plot of ground in Cooke Street, Dublin, 1723 — just behind St. Audoen's Church in the Liberties!
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January 6, 2026 at 1:05 PM
Today is #NollaignamBan so we thought we'd feature Mary Whitshed, from the Guild of St Anne Collection. Her seal below was impressed onto a grant from the Guild for a plot of ground in Cooke Street, Dublin, 1723 — just behind St. Audoen's Church in the Liberties!
virtualtreasury.ie/item/RIA-GSA...
virtualtreasury.ie/item/RIA-GSA...
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What makes a place convivial? Join Professor Michael Given for a seminar on soil, herd, and home in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland from the 17th to 19th centuries - 22 January 2026 - 16:00–17:30 (UK) - Hybrid - Register now bit.ly/3Z4NDGJ
January 6, 2026 at 1:35 PM
What makes a place convivial? Join Professor Michael Given for a seminar on soil, herd, and home in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland from the 17th to 19th centuries - 22 January 2026 - 16:00–17:30 (UK) - Hybrid - Register now bit.ly/3Z4NDGJ
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#NewYorkGenealogy #FamilyHistory
@myheritageofficial.bsky.social
has added the 1890 New York City Police Census, with the color images and a new index.
Of course, the first name I checked was my GGM Kate Nelis (Catherine McGarrity Nelis)
www.myheritage.com/research/col...
@myheritageofficial.bsky.social
has added the 1890 New York City Police Census, with the color images and a new index.
Of course, the first name I checked was my GGM Kate Nelis (Catherine McGarrity Nelis)
www.myheritage.com/research/col...
January 6, 2026 at 1:41 PM
#NewYorkGenealogy #FamilyHistory
@myheritageofficial.bsky.social
has added the 1890 New York City Police Census, with the color images and a new index.
Of course, the first name I checked was my GGM Kate Nelis (Catherine McGarrity Nelis)
www.myheritage.com/research/col...
@myheritageofficial.bsky.social
has added the 1890 New York City Police Census, with the color images and a new index.
Of course, the first name I checked was my GGM Kate Nelis (Catherine McGarrity Nelis)
www.myheritage.com/research/col...
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None of us had to skate to work this morning, but otherwise this is an accurate description of York today!
The picture is taken from the scrapbook of young Laura Hannam, begun in 1819 and now part of the university's Rare Books collection.
The picture is taken from the scrapbook of young Laura Hannam, begun in 1819 and now part of the university's Rare Books collection.
January 6, 2026 at 10:41 AM
None of us had to skate to work this morning, but otherwise this is an accurate description of York today!
The picture is taken from the scrapbook of young Laura Hannam, begun in 1819 and now part of the university's Rare Books collection.
The picture is taken from the scrapbook of young Laura Hannam, begun in 1819 and now part of the university's Rare Books collection.
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Pleased to see another #Railway200 Great Rail Tale podcast is out!
Railway Work, Life & Death project co-lead Mike talks with Gordon Churchill about railway orphanages - & Gordon discusses his father Arthur's time at the #Woking orphanage:
railway200.co.uk/podcast/mike...
Railway Work, Life & Death project co-lead Mike talks with Gordon Churchill about railway orphanages - & Gordon discusses his father Arthur's time at the #Woking orphanage:
railway200.co.uk/podcast/mike...
Dr Mike Esbester and Gordon Churchill – Remembering Arthur Churchill and the Railway Orphanages
The rail industry hasn’t always been the pioneers of safety they are today. In times gone by, the accident rate in the rail industry was much higher and accidents often very severe. Mike and Gordon…
railway200.co.uk
January 6, 2026 at 11:45 AM
Pleased to see another #Railway200 Great Rail Tale podcast is out!
Railway Work, Life & Death project co-lead Mike talks with Gordon Churchill about railway orphanages - & Gordon discusses his father Arthur's time at the #Woking orphanage:
railway200.co.uk/podcast/mike...
Railway Work, Life & Death project co-lead Mike talks with Gordon Churchill about railway orphanages - & Gordon discusses his father Arthur's time at the #Woking orphanage:
railway200.co.uk/podcast/mike...
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From enamel to iron, printing to interior design, 1430 to present, the latest special issue of Midland History all about the Midlands Metal Trades is available online now.
www.tandfonline.com/toc/ymdh20/5...
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Midland History
Midlands Metal Trades. Volume 50, Issue 3 of Midland History
www.tandfonline.com
January 6, 2026 at 12:09 PM
From enamel to iron, printing to interior design, 1430 to present, the latest special issue of Midland History all about the Midlands Metal Trades is available online now.
www.tandfonline.com/toc/ymdh20/5...
www.tandfonline.com/toc/ymdh20/5...
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Still pretty cold in Cambridge today but it's not reached 1963 levels yet. Not sure we'll be skating on the Cam this year! Here's what it looked like then.
January 6, 2026 at 11:46 AM
Still pretty cold in Cambridge today but it's not reached 1963 levels yet. Not sure we'll be skating on the Cam this year! Here's what it looked like then.
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Winter walks on a section of Cheshire’s Sandstone Trail. A spectacular landscape in the north of the Anglo-Cymric borderland whose archaeology speaks of its significance over millennia
A perfect winter walk between two great pubs in Cheshire
This 14-mile section of the Sandstone Trail crosses an ancient landscape of hills, woods and ridges, bookended by two fine old inns
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January 6, 2026 at 10:10 AM
Winter walks on a section of Cheshire’s Sandstone Trail. A spectacular landscape in the north of the Anglo-Cymric borderland whose archaeology speaks of its significance over millennia
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Today’s #Panoramic is this engraving of #Birmingham by Storer from an original drawing by Turner. Published 1795 by Walker. Included in the third edition of William Hutton’s History of Birmingham, 1795. Ref: SC 14 #LibraryofBham
January 6, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Today’s #Panoramic is this engraving of #Birmingham by Storer from an original drawing by Turner. Published 1795 by Walker. Included in the third edition of William Hutton’s History of Birmingham, 1795. Ref: SC 14 #LibraryofBham
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Sunshine and snow at Ellesmere - with a burst of colour from hawthorn berries framing narrowboats on the Llangollen Canal. I have given the image greater depth by focus-stacking 21 shots, which ensures everything is in focus. The editing is time-consuming but I enjoy the challenge! #Shropshire
January 6, 2026 at 7:19 AM
Sunshine and snow at Ellesmere - with a burst of colour from hawthorn berries framing narrowboats on the Llangollen Canal. I have given the image greater depth by focus-stacking 21 shots, which ensures everything is in focus. The editing is time-consuming but I enjoy the challenge! #Shropshire
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Drifted snow in the village of Diggle, Saddleworth, 1947 (@manchestereveningnews.co.uk)
January 6, 2026 at 8:26 AM
Drifted snow in the village of Diggle, Saddleworth, 1947 (@manchestereveningnews.co.uk)
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The second of two batches of small ads relating to my #OnePlaceStudy of Waters Upton in Shropshire is now online. Poultry, horses, dogs, traps, eggs, motorcycles and even Peacocks feature in For Sale, Wanted, Lost, and Found ads! #OnePlaceAdverts
Other Small Ads
A collection of over 180 classified or ‘small ads’ (For Sale, Wanted, Lost, and Found) relating to the parish of Waters Upton and its people, from 1979 to 1949. See also small ads for Situations Va…
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January 5, 2026 at 7:27 PM
The second of two batches of small ads relating to my #OnePlaceStudy of Waters Upton in Shropshire is now online. Poultry, horses, dogs, traps, eggs, motorcycles and even Peacocks feature in For Sale, Wanted, Lost, and Found ads! #OnePlaceAdverts
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Historic Hawick tweed mill recreates Victorian designs to mark 200th anniversary www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tweed mill recreates Victorian designs to mark 200th anniversary
The King and Taylor Swift are among those who have worn tweed produced at Lovat Mill in the Borders.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 5, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Historic Hawick tweed mill recreates Victorian designs to mark 200th anniversary www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Auxiliary Territorial Service searchlight operators, London, 1943, photographed by Lee Miller. Seen at Tate Britain.
January 5, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Auxiliary Territorial Service searchlight operators, London, 1943, photographed by Lee Miller. Seen at Tate Britain.
2024 has been added to the GRO indexes online!
January 5, 2026 at 6:41 PM