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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! www.one-place-studies.org

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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · Feb 12

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

The cover of our e-booklet (cropped from portrait to square). The top half features a photo of houses and streets on the edge of a village, with fields and trees beyond. The bottom half features the title: The Society for One-Place Studies Presents A Guide to One-Place Studies.

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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 6m

Come and meet us (and many #FamilyHistory societies and vendors) at the Oxfordshire Family History Society Family History Fair on Saturday 25 Oct 2025. 10am to 4pm at Cherwell School (North Site), Oxford. Free entry, free parking, and chance to chat about #OnePlaceStudies!

#OnePlaceWednesday

Society for One-Place Studies.
Come and meet us.
Saturday 25 October 10:00 to 16:00 at Oxfordshire FHS family history fair, Cherwell School, Oxford.
Free entry!
www.ofhs.uk/fair2025
One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.

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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 52m

#31DaysOfGraves day 15 - damaged
In kirkyard at St John’s, North Walls, #Orkney my #OnePlaceStudy.
John Mackay b 1870 Evie Orkney son of John Mackay, schoolmaster & Penelope Sutherland. Farm servant @ Ore, North Walls 1891-1921 censuses. D North Seatter, North Walls (mother’s home) 1947 a 75.

Two halves of a gravestone right against a stone wall with grass in front. Lettering reads: Sacred to the memory of John Mackay who died at North Seatter 23rd February 1947 aged 75.

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wendytm.bsky.social @wendytm.bsky.social · 55m

Two wartime pupils return to Graveney School, my ##OnePlaceStudies for #OnePlaceWednesday. Their oral histories were vital to the research for my book, Celebrating 150 Years of Graveney School. ##GraveneyGoodnestone

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 1h

The headstone of Robert Lincoln Andrews, 1907, holed by a machine gun bullet from a German plane strafing a navigation beacon in the next field during WWII, at Rushmere St Michael, Suffolk.

More: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/rushmerestmi...

#31daysofgraves 15: damaged

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Yorkshire Vernacular Buildings Study Group @yvbsg.bsky.social · 2h

#WindowsOnWednesday Window at Hallbridge Farmhouse, Clayton with Frickley, Doncaster. historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-...

Small window in quatrefoil stone surround at Hallbridge Farmhouse, Clayton.

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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 2h

A glorious October morning in a #OnePlaceStudy three years ago, to welcome you to #OnePlaceWednesday! Use the hashtag today to share posts with news, pics, questions, links, and general chat relating to your one-place studies or places featuring in your #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory research.

#OnePlaceWednesday.
Image: A photo of the view across a small lake, with a Cedar of Lebanon (on the right) and other trees on and above the far shore. The green foliage and blue sky above are perfectly reflected on the still surface of the water.
One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.

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Alison M @alisonm.bsky.social · 1d

#31DaysOfGraves day14: inside. Govan, better known as the heart of Scotland's shipbuilding industry, is home to one of the country's oldest places of worship and to the Govan Stones, Viking era hogback stones, as well as the magnificent pre-Norman Govan sarcophagus. A brilliant place to visit.

Viking hogback stones. A long carved stone that looks a bit like a corn on the cob

Detail of the Govan sarcophagus, a carved stone tomb. The detail shows a soldier on horseback and some carved pattern work to one side

Another detail from the sarcophagus, possibly showing a lamb standing on a wolf (perhaps suggesting the triumph of Christianity over paganism)

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 18h

#31DaysOfGraves
Day 14 - Inside

I took this picture inside the Highgate Catacombs on a tour last year. Shortly after this the tour guide asked if I wanted to volunteer because I looked the part and I sadly had to say "sorry, I have to go back to Canada!"

The long hallway of the Highgate Catacombs with round skylights periodically along the ceiling. On the left wall are niches for caskets.

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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 12h

#31DaysOfGraves Day 14: Inside

Brasses taken from tombstones on the floor of St Michael’s church in my #OnePlaceStudy of Waters Upton in #Shropshire, and mounted on the South wall when the church was rebuilt in 1864. Transcriptions on my website: waters-upton.uk/memorial-ins...

Photo of a tablet on a wall, bearing five monumental brasses. An explanatory sign mounted at the foot of the tablet reads: "These brasses were taken from Tombstones which were on the floor of the aisle of the old Church 1864".

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Public Record Office Victoria @vicarchives.bsky.social · 10h

The #Bendigo Regional Archives Centre will present 2 local events in November.

Such Sweet Sorrow will explore the bitter and sweet of chocolate in NW Victoria.

Remarrying, Religion and the Victorian Goldfields will explore love, desire and faith on the Goldfields.

🎟️ www.brac.vic.gov.au/events

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 1d

My post for the Mainly Museums blog on my trip last year to the Museum of Country Bygones at Marton. A fascinating small museum full of objects to do with rural life in the 19th and early/mid 20th centuries.
#Museums

mainlymuseums.com/post/1292/ma...

Marton Museum of Country Bygones

mainlymuseums.com

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British Association for Local History @balhnews.bsky.social · 1d

Join us tomorrow for a virtual lecture about the new book 'Drax of Drax Hall: How One British Family Got Rich (and Stayed Rich) from Sugar and Slavery.'

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

#WeAreLocalHistory

S Hutchinson, English: Slave Traffic (1793). Royal Museums Greenwich, PR1979-11

This painting refers to the story of Inkle and Yarico, first published in 1711. In the story, the 'native' woman, Yarico, rescues an Englishman Mr Inkle after a shipwreck. They fall in love and live together in the woods, before a passing ship brings them to Barbados. The picture shows Inkle at the moment that he sells Yarico into slavery. She has just told him that she is pregnant with his child, in the hope that this will make him change his mind. Inkle asks the trader for more money instead. Sentimental stories like this often exposed the cruelties of slavery, and they were used in the growing art and literature of the abolition movement. It is signed by the artist and dated.

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Family History Federation @federationfhs.bsky.social · 21h

Join a family history society for help, support and community. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy www.familyhistoryfederation.com/join-fhs

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Society of Genealogists @sogorg.bsky.social · 13h

📜 See history up close!
Join us in person at the SoG in London, for Collections Up Close: School Records and Registers (15 Oct).

Explore the real archives with @elsesoggenealogist.bsky.social & Christine — discover the school stories behind the records.

🎟️ Book:

Collections Up Close: School records and registers

Members' Exclusive In Person talk with the option to watch Zoom by Else Churchill and Christine Worthington

portal.sog.org.uk

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Jan Murphy @packrat74.bsky.social · 14h

#AncestryHour This is one of my favorite videos on using PERSI. #OnePlaceStudy people already know the value of doing research by place, but family historians who haven't studied #LocalHistory may need some help getting up to speed on searching by place.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS7i...

Finding Periodical Articles about Your Geographic Area of Interest Using PERSI

YouTube video by Allen County Public Library

www.youtube.com

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Somerset Vernacular Building Research Group (SVBRG) @svbrg.bsky.social · 14h

Ed Lorch will tell us the story of local man James Quantock, an 18th century polymath who specialised in what we today call surveying. There will be details on how his intricate 100-page notebook was found which gives instructions and data on surveying, carpentry, husbandry, building costs and more.

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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 15h

#31DaysofGraves Day 14: Inside - mortsafe cages in Ramshorn Kirkyard, Glasgow.
Designed to keep bodies inside their graves, safe from the attentions of the 'Resurrection Men' who supplied corpses to Glasgow's medical schools for dissection.

Photograph of two mortsafe cages covering two family graves adjoining the inner walls of Ramshorn Kirkyard & surrounded by green trees and grass.

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 15h

Day 14 of #31DaysOfGraves - Inside

Here are just two monuments from the extraordinary assemblage of 14th-15th century graveslabs that are now housed within the reroofed former Prior's house within the ruins of the Augustinian priory on the island of Oronsay.

These were most likely MacDuffie chiefs

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Historic Southampton @historicalsoton.bsky.social · 2d

Above Bar Street and the Bargate in the late nineteenth century, photographed by Thomas Hibberd James.

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 1d

✨ If doors could speak, this one tells a tale of monks, kings and queens and scholars. Built into the abbot's house of St. Mary's Abbey. It saw Henry VIII and Catherine Howard, became a portal for the King's Council, then a place of learning.

The door is full of latent memory.

An ornate doorway at King’s Manor, York, with a carved stone surround and Stuart coat of arms above, set into weathered red brick walls.

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Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine @wdytyamagazine.bsky.social · 18h

Do you have any cherished family photographs? National Trust photo curator Catherine Troiano takes a look at some beautiful photographs from the Victorian and Edwardian periods - and explains the tell-tale clues that help to date them:

www.whodoyouthinkyouaremaga...

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Friends of Warriston Cemetery @fowarristoncem.bsky.social · 18h

#31DaysofGraves 14: Inside. Warriston Cemetery's historic catacombs & vaults. I seem to use the word "sadly" a lot, but again, sadly these were badly vandalised & have been sealed off for many years. The b&w photos were taken by the council in the 1980s. #Edinburgh #Warriston #Catacombs #Vaults

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Glamorgan Archives Archifau Morgannwg @glamarchives.bsky.social · 18h

October is Black History Month
You can find our Research Guide to Sources for the Study of Minority Ethnic History on our website.
glamarchives.gov.uk/collection/r...

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Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre @heritagewshc.bsky.social · 19h

Did you know that our local studies library contains hundreds of folders of ephemera all catalogued and categorised by Wiltshire parish and subject? A rich, under-used resource for social history, we share some fascinating examples from the collection in our latest blog: wshc.org.uk/goldmines-in...

Goldmines found in ephemera: an excellent resource for social history - Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

The Wiltshire Local Studies Ephemera Collection at the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre comprises of hundreds of folders full of social history!

wshc.org.uk

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Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) @dri.ie · 20h

We are delighted to announce a new collection – Ireland’s Educational Foundations: Digitising and Mapping the 1826 Education Inquiry – has been published in the Repository by @ria.ie in collaboration with Dr. Alan Fernihough of @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social.

Find out more: dri.ie/news/new-col...

A map illustrating various school listings and their locations across different regions.

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