This is great news for those of us with Suffolk #OnePlaceStudies - & you can use place as a keyword or ‘any event’ & it will bring up people connected to that place

#BoatFamilies and the First World War - finding these young men who served is proving difficult but so far I have found 20 young men who made the ultimate sacrifice. Their stories will be told, for now I'm just remembering their names. #OnePlaceStudies #RemembranceSunday

Last call for tickets. Online tonight at 8pm GMT we will be hosting a talk on Irish Death Customs with folklore collector Michael Fortune of folklore.ie Tickets are £5 including recording of the event from bit.ly/flaevents All proceeds support our and Michael’s folklore work

A guest blog, which adds more detail to the narrative of detecting in England & Wales. Thank you to my anonymous colleague for writing this important piece & for allowing me to host it on the Big Book of Torcs! 😊 #Archaeology #Detecting #Torcs #gold #Treasure bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/08/w...

The 1921 #census of England and Wales is now available at MyHeritage @myheritageofficial.bsky.social, but it appears that (as is the case at Ancestry) the transcriptions are those created by Findmypast. #FamilyHistory #LocalHistory #OnePlaceStudies

On this day in 1837, a violent fire ripped through a warehouse on Southampton High Street. Twenty-two men and boys were killed as they tried to extinguish the flames. Of those who lost their lives, the youngest was just sixteen. You can read about the fire here: historicsouthampton.co.uk/1837-fire/

News | Historic England adds 138 new sites to its Heritage at Risk register – charity says that 129 sites have been 'saved' in 2025

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My next writing project is going to be writing up my 3x great grandmother, who is my biggest brick wall. I was well underway until the wills price hike! #GenHour

Welcome to #GenHour! Some silent fireworks in honour of the UK’s Guy Fawkes/bonfire night yesterday 🎇 Anyone else madly ordering post-1858 wills?

Starting on 17 November, Janet’s course ‘Elusive Ancestors: Migration within the British Isles’ - useful if you’re thinking about tracing migration in/out of your #OnePlaceStudy #OnePlaceWednesday

Free online event from The Society of Genealogists - Researching in #Hampshire portal.sog.org.uk/Event/view/1...? #OnePlaceWednesday

So far I don’t know whether I’m more disappointed by the wills price hike or by the seemingly small number of #Sudbourne residents who left a will! 😂 Only 15%! Would be interested to know how this percentage compares to other #OnePlaceStudies #OnePlaceWednesday

Our 2025 #OnePlaceStudies Conference and AGM is just two and a half weeks away! Don’t miss out on this excellent event – for just £10 you can join us as a member, join in with this and our monthly webinars, and enjoy our other membership benefits! #OnePlaceWednesday

All 1858+ wills for those buried in #Sudbourne before 1942 have now been ordered 🥳 Just hope Iron Mountain can find them all 🙄 I’ve screenshotted every will I’ve ordered in case they quibble. Now to check my family tree (hopefully have most of those) & various other projects 😫 #OnePlaceWednesday

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

Mapping Dorset’s Victorian and Edwardian Buildings by Michael Hill - a webinar by The Victorian Society #OnePlaceWednesday

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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

Join us tonight to learn how LiDAR technology is transforming local history, as Dr Wendy Morrison reveals how high-resolution aerial data from the Beacons of the Past project is uncovering hidden traces of human activity across the Chilterns. Book your place: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-a...

What is the oldest pub name in England? What is the funniest? Strangest? Most popular? Which writer has 33 pubs named for him? Find out in our History of Beer Podcast: tinyurl.com/47yrta2v #history #beer #pubs #england #ale

Join us tomorrow to learn how LiDAR technology is transforming local history, as Dr Wendy Morrison reveals how high-resolution aerial data from the Beacons of the Past project is uncovering hidden traces of human activity across the Chilterns. Book your place: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-a...

Can’t wait to read it! #OnePlaceStudies

Tom was a decoy goose. He fell in love with a goosy girlfriend and followed her to London. But ended up at Leadenhall poultry market. Would he survive? Find out in our Strange Animal Stories Podcast: tinyurl.com/2mcp4ww5 #history #animals #goose #london

Another cracking clip from a 1985 edition of Suffolk Roots Members can search past copies of Suffolk Roots for mention of their family or place of interest

What a poignant find

The paperback of my book has now gone on sale ✨️ www.bloomsbury.com/uk/wayward-g... Thankyou @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social for the advance copies 🤍 #books #history #academia

How To Say People’s Names In Various Europe Countries Explanation with more examples: brilliantmaps.com/naming-or...

'Yet' - a story about childhood trauma, disability, & the power of three words: "I can't... yet." Harry Drabble spent his childhood in Sheffield's hospital for 'crippled children.' He was told he'd never work or have a family. He proved them wrong. Read the opening chapters: tinyurl.com/3htja9fs

I was so excited to receive this book last week - it's about life on the home front in Devon in #WW2, & features diaries from someone in my #OneNameStudy! The book is by Todd Gray, who used diaries from the #MassObservation Archive to bring this interesting period of history to life #GenHour

I found this interesting - Who Are Our Ancestors and Why Does It Matter? – A Question of Science with Brian Cox www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ezX... #GenHour #DNA #AncientDNA

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My latest blogpost has just published. It's aimed at Intermediate level family history researchers or people moving on from Beginners to Intermediate, and looks at how we can layer up and cross reference information from burial records. englishancestors.blog/2025/10/24/g...

UK, Military Service Records, 1939-1959 are now live on Ancestry. (Free access not until 6 November.) Thanks to @wdytyamagazine.bsky.social for the heads-up! #FamilyHistory #LocalHistory #MilitaryHistory #OnePlaceWednesday

📣 Over 2 million WW2 service records to go online for the first time. Ancestry will add over 2 million British Army infantry service records on 6 November 6; along with their other military records they will be free to view from that date until 12 November. #FamilyHistory #OnePlaceWednesday

Managed another short visit to Fawsley, my local #OnePlaceStudy parish, yesterday. As the sun/cloud ratio didn't favour landscape photography I spent more time in the church. The run-up to Halloween seems a great time to share some of its bonkers-but-brilliant box pew carvings. 🧵 #OnePlaceWednesday

People submit Welsh place names to protect linguistic heritage www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... OnePlaceWednesday

I was thrilled to find this book on school log books by @fachrs.bsky.social! I wish I’d been a member during this project, as I’d have contributed my #Sudbourne school log books transcriptions #OnePlaceWednesday

On Monday I start the Pharos course ‘ Education and Childhood 1820 to 1920’ - I'm excited to to discover some background & context for my research into #Sudbourne school. While checking my personal library for books on the reading list, I found this one, which I’d forgotten about #OnePlaceWednesday

Don’t forget to look at the county information in the front pages of Kelly’s, White’s & Pigot's directories. They can contain useful information about ancient history, geography & agriculture, as these images of pages from the 1855 White´s Directory show #OnePlaceWednesday

Today I’m at The National Archives - once of my happy places! I’m researching 1910 Valuation Act records for my own #FamilyHistory & another one-placer & some Ordnance Survey Object Name Books, amongst other things #OnePlaceWednesday

London. 1810s. A ruthless gang of grave robbers terrorised the city. One of them writes a diary detailing the bodies sold to the surgeons. We bring the true story to life in our podcast: The Diary of a Graverobber. Listen here: tinyurl.com/rhswu35f #history #halloween #graverobber #london

Protect hares and their young from shooting during the breeding season petition.parliament.uk/signatures/1...

For no reason other than my obsession with the topic, I have decided to count down to #Halloween 🧙🎃👻 with a suitable daily blog. Stuff I’ve been excited about over the year, sometimes related to #JohnAubrey & his pals. My book on Aubrey is out 2026. 😁 1/6 www.louiserylandepton.co.uk/blog/involun...

Our Zooms are now for members only because of actions of a few, resulting in breaches of trust, GDPR & copyright. However, membership starts at £10 a yr, & for that you get access to 11 Zooms, not bad value at < £1 each. See Parish chest or go to

Hope your #Caturday has been a good one. Here’s Patch exploring the garden 😻

#31DaysOfGraves Day 25: graveside ornament Ballet shoes left on Serge Diaghilev’s grave

#31DaysOfGraves Day 25: graveside ornament Ok…not strictly a graveside ornament as it wasn’t left there for the occupant of the grave, but - after giving me a fright - it did make me smile

ONLINE TALK: Saturday 8th November at 8pm IRISH DEATH CUSTOMS with Michael Fortune of folklore.ie Tickets £5 + booking fee, including recording, from bit.ly/flaevents An intriguing one-hour long talk on the superstitions, beliefs and practices surrounding death in Ireland, plus audience Q&A.