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THE FAMILY GENEALOGISTS AND LONG-LOST RELATIVES STUDY we want to learn more about the experiences of diverse midlife to older aged adults (aged 55+) who have searched for, and located a previously unknown immediate or closely related genetic relative www.sfu.ca/gerontology/...

Happy birthday to us! Our founders – Octavia Hill, Robert Hunter and Hardwicke Rawnsley – believed that nature, beauty and history were for everyone. On this day in 1895, they set up the National Trust and we're proud to continue their work today. Thank you to all those who support what we do.

Mad: a woman has bren forced to stop running the Spine Race Challenger (108 miles up the pennine way) because of death threats. She was raising money for Afghan women and aid. So some fucks decided to threaten to kill her. For running. You can donage here: www.gofundme.com/f/sarah-port...

Ooh I love this! #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #ContextToYourResearch #SocialHistory

This made me laugh much more then it strictly should have done.

Not sure if I can make #genhour tonight as I'm presenting on Speakers' Corner, but I have a question: Is there a virtual place where European family historians meet? 🧵 #familyhistory #ancestry

One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

Reform UK won’t say ‘private’ when talking about the NHS. Richard Tice is calling it ‘independent’: "Instead of giving £26bn to the already bloated wasteful NHS, we proposed easing pressure on the health service by incentivising those who can afford to pay more to go independent with a tax break."

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐭 𝐗/𝐓𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐧𝐨𝐰. Musk’s platform is proving itself a vile cesspit: its AI generating sexually explicit images of children is horrifying. Every day we tolerate this, we weaken our democracies and endanger our future. www.newsweek.com/grok-apology...

The last light(house) of 2025 - not much in the way of sunset … Happy New Year! #2025 #Cheshire #Wirral #Photography

Happy Christmas. A Christmas dragon, some quirky elves or fairies (?) and a Victorian Christmas, the last 2 at Vale Park, New Brighton #Wallasey #Wirral #Christmas

Concluding our series on places in labour history, Greg Billam takes us to St George's Plateau, Liverpool, where crowds have gathered for more than a century for key social, political, and cultural episodes in the city’s history sslh.org.uk/2025/12/24/s...

The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.

Earlston House, Wallasey, possibly the site of the “old Manor House” now part of Wallasey Central Library, grade II listed. #Wirral #Wallasey #Photography #HistoricEngland #Library

James Bond: Licence To Marry... 💒

Even by my low expectations for Kemi Badenoch ‘violence against women and girls is something done by immigrants and nobody else’ has shocked me.

Stephen Flynn criticises Nigel Farage from attacking children who speak more than one language #BBCQT "A man who aspires to be PM of these isle would pick a fight with school kids, would hold school kids up as an object to beat, absolutely repulses me and it should repulse all of you as well"

The #BigGive #ChristmasChallenge is in progress! This is your chance help Free UK #Genealogy deliver its FreePROBATE service – and to have the value of your donation doubled by those (including the Society for #OnePlaceStudies) who have pledged match funding. To find out more and to donate... 👇🏻

Book tree at Wallasey Village Library & Community Centre #Wirral #Christmas #Photography #Library

Mersey Tnnel Liverpool. Good to see the column restored and replaced. It will look better once the works are cleared away. #Liverpool #Photography

Reform accepted £9 million from a former Boris Johnson backer & crypto-multimillionaire. Today, Nigel Farage postures as a righteous defender of the same democracy he actively undermines. Democracy should never be for sale. It's time for a cap on political donations.

Last year Sky News was rending its garments over Starmer's free eyeglasses: WHAT INFLUENCE DID LORD ALLI BUY? Now, RefUK get £9m from a crypto bro, they have not one word about the donor's interests; just BRAVO NIGEL, barely concealed glee, and "what a huge boost... money goes where momentum is". 🤡

2 in 3 of Nigel Farage’s current and former partners do not speak English as their first language.

From 2 February 2026, The National Archives will increase fees for some services. This affects fees for document copies, research & search services, and also introduce a new fee for accessing historic Ministry of Defence service personnel records #GenHour www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/t...

UK National Archives to raise fees and introduce new Request A Military Service Record service scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2025/12/uk-n... #genealogy #military #archives

“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”

I saw this one elsewhere and decided it was rather fitting given that I have many #Yorkshire ancestors. 😂

“Speaking outside his chateau in France…” I kid you not. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

NEW: If you have *any* interest in the Nathan Gill story, you need to look at this. We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...

An investigation into Russian interference in our politics is long overdue. And we all know who should be questioned first.

Black Friday sale! We are offering 15% off ALL of our courses from now until the end of 1st December. Use code FRIDAY15 at checkout. Terms and conditions here: www.pharostutors.com/black-friday... Please spread the word! #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Ancestry #OnlineCourses #BlackFriday2025

News | Two museums announce closure due to low footfall and rising costs Quaker Tapestry Museum and Museum of Carpet will both shut next month

Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”

#FamilyHistory 1880 burial register. If someone 'gave the order', would you take that to be the person who paid for the burial? I've come across a rather random burial with the order given by one of my distinctive family names ...

Small rant - why can't Ancestry distinguish between maiden and married names? You are NOT going to be baptised as a child with your married name and are pretty unlikely to be buried with your maiden name (in E&W, until recently, caveats etc) 😡 #FamilyHistory

#Liverpool (Stanley & Clarence Docks) 1848-64 The innovative nature of Liverpool is sometimes forgotten; the worlds’ first commercial enclosed wet dock complex in 1715 is now buried under a Liverpool One, but its success built a metropolis & changed the world. www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/liv14.htm 1/

Maps, Maps, Maps! We have a good number of maps of #Cheshire that you can view and download FREE of charge. See our website in the Bio 😊 #localhistory #maps #Saxton

@lmrailway.bsky.social . A new project to illustrate all 31 miles of the L&MR with information panels along the way. First steps.All aboard..

#Chester cathedral on a drizzly night. Quick phone shots. #Cheshire #Photography

Why is Ed Davey the only frontline politician to be saying this?

I’ve written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage urging them to condemn Donald Trump’s attack on the BBC. The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.

Dramatic skies over the old tower of St Hilary, Wallasey, after a dull, wet afternoon. #Wirral #Photography

Founded in 1907 to defend landowners’ interests, the CLA has fought against every major push to open up the countryside. From blocking early footpath reforms to opposing today’s right to roam movement, the CLA has stood on the wrong side of public access for over a century.

Corwen walking.

This should go everywhere- and far beyond “us”, because we understand the horrors of this. Amazingly - many don’t.

It’s easy to see why Trump wants to destroy the world’s number one news source. We can’t let him. The BBC belongs to all of us here in the UK. The Prime Minister and leaders from across the political spectrum should be united in telling Trump to keep his hands off it.

Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.