With the Port of Leith so close to Warriston Cemetery, it's no surprise that we have so many nautical graves within our walls. Here's the first of three posts for today's #31daysofgraves Day 2: Nautical. #Edinburgh #Taphophile #Nautical #Gravestones #LocalHistory #Leith #Warriston #FOWC

A family grave at Wauchope, #Langholm in #Scotland. Contains details of my family from 1786 to 1930 #priceless. Hope it is still standing, it's quite few years since I visited. #31DaysOfGraves #Genealogy

The Former Free Church in Skerray has gone on the market. It's a little "tin tabernacle" church, constructed by the local Free Church congregation in 1903 after they left their building in Strathy when it became a United Free Church. More on the sale here 👇 www.northern-times.co.uk/news/derelic...

#OTD (30 Sept) c.1717, #Cockenzie wright (carpenter) William Dickson recorded the well known mnemonic rhyme, ‘Thirty Days Hath September’, to help him record business transactions on the Winton Estate, such as building Scotland’s first (wooden) railway in 1722. www.scottishrecordsociety.org.uk

#31DaysOfGraves Day 2: Nautical / Nautisch This cross memorializes a group of fishermen who died here in 1955 after their trawler “Daniel Quare” ran aground on the north of Langanes, Iceland. The men tried to walk to Skálar but froze to death. The inscription reads „Here rest 11 British seamen.”

Graves of two Welsh sailors John Davies and Capt Evan Jones from Morfa Nefyn, #Caernarfonshire in the kirkyard at Kilcolmkill Chapel (aka Keil) Southend, #Argyll, Scotland. Both drowned 7 February 1883. #31DaysOfGraves - Day 2 Nautical

I do not yet know the connection to Arthur J Cumming, buried at Welford Road Cemetery, Leicester. Photo found in the home of my mother’s cousin. #31DaysOfGraves - Day 1 Flowers

Advance notice of a House History Workshop at St Ninians Library, Saint Ninians, Stirling, on Friday 21st November, 10am to 11.30am. Stirling Council Archives staff will guide you through #HouseHistory research in this hands-on workshop. Free, but booking essential. #OnePlaceWednesday

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals. Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’. What, Michelle? 🧵

Not only is it #OnePlaceWednesday, it is also #LincolnshireDay! Our members have registered seven #OnePlaceStudies in the county – find out more about them on the Lincolnshire page on our website, and using our Guide to One-Place Studies PDF download maybe start a #Lincolnshire OPS yourself?

The High Court has ordered PPE Medpro to repay £122m over faulty PPE supplied under a VIP lane contract. This ruling is just the tip of the iceberg. Greed and corruption during the pandemic cost lives, and all responsible must be held to account. (1/5)

Day 1 #31DaysOfGraves

It's a wet, windy day in Orkney but it's also the first day of October, and that means... #31daysofgraves! The prompt for today is 'Flower', so here's a lovely carved rose from the gravestone of one Elizabeth Cuthbert who died in 1685. Follow @annaandthedead.bsky.social if you want to join in ☠️🪦

#Orkney #OnePlaceStudy #NorthWallsAndBrims

Commemorating Arctic Explorer Dr John Rae theorkneynews.scot/2025/09/30/c...

Reform’s Russia connections may endanger our security – time for a public inquiry  | Martin Roche

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

There’s a blog with it too - my initial post not very clear on that.🤦🏻 #Orkney #FamilyHistory

So pleased to have this photo for our family, for a bit of agricultural history and because the backdrop is part of my #OnePlaceStudy. #Orkney #NorthWallsAndBrims #FamilyHistory

On a day of gloomy news and ever downward spirals I have two bright spots: 1) website moving to new server with great support from @timwakeling.co.uk my provider; 2) managed to enable TPM on computer myself following online instructions. JogScotland tonight to round the day off. #OldWomanRunning

Can't think of many better illustrations of how badly we have botched housing policy than the fact that our bill for housing homeless families (£2.8bn pa) is now higher than the money we spend each year on new affordable housing (£2.3bn) www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/english...

When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵

A woman raised solely by her mother with a ‘father unknown’ has finally confirmed her lineage after a two-year legal process, raising questions about whether absent fathers should be able to ‘disappear from accountability’ ✍️ Martin Shipton

@shipwreckspod.bsky.social @rnshiplosses.bsky.social Lyness Naval War Memorial : 100 Years Ago theorkneynews.scot/2025/09/29/l...

Unexpected rabbit hole: a rather public dispute between the MP Cathcart Wason and the Melsetter estate owner Thomas Middlemore about roads in Hoy #Orkney early 1900s. Was looking on the BNA for info about the road over the Ayre of Brims. #Newspapers #OnePlaceStudies #NorthWallsAndBrims

Time for another #SpeakerSaturday featuring Helen Shields aka Auntie Kate who will be telling tales of her life in a Devon village and this stories of her husbands. www.devonfhs.org.uk/devon-fhs-co...

Leisure & Entertainment is the theme for Day 4 of #AATP25. Check out the videos on this theme from All About That Place 2023 on the Society of Genealogists' YouTube channel—and our own brand new video, The development of seaside resorts and the coming of the railways by Mick Warner. #OnePlaceStudies

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From the All About That Place video archive, for #AATP25 Day 2: Health & Medicine. In The Dangers of Village Wells our member @turnstonegenie.bsky.social Jane Barton explored the challenge of providing safe water to a small rural village in Cumberland—part of her Westward and Boltons #OnePlaceStudy.

It's Day 2 of All About That Place #AATP25, for which the theme is Health and Medicine. Later, we'll look back at some videos on that theme in the AATP video archive. Before that though, we'll have a brand new video for you to watch on our own #OnePlaceStudies YouTube channel. Stay tuned!

Now available to view on the Society for #OnePlaceStudies YouTube channel is a video from our member @julzmuirhead.bsky.social Dr Julie Muirhead which looks at Dr Joseph Stevens🔗 of St Mary Bourne. Our contribution to the #AATP25 Day 2 theme of Health and Medicine.

I have a lot to say, but can't put it all into one post, so hopefully the image below will express it better than 280 characters could ever. It's a big change for @projectinfant.ie but one that needed to be done. Thank you all who support our work. 🩷🩵🤍 🔗: projectinfant.ie/forster

If you think that adults taking Tylenol hurt kids, just wait until you read what the adults in the Epstein Files were doing to them.

Culture Secretary attacks BBC over 'false' article on Scottish trains BBC lies about Scotland are sadly typical, not an exception. www.thenational.scot/news/2548840...

#AATP25 is very much *not* the event in its usual format, more a look back at some of the fab things from the two events held so far—with a theme for each day. 👇🏻 However, @projectkin.bsky.social and ourselves will be contributing new material: keep your eyes peeled for details! #OnePlaceWednesday

A Pembrokeshire Labour county councillor has resigned from the party, saying there is a need to build a new socialist party as Labour is failing to challenge “the forces of the far right on the march”

Yesterday I was lucky enough to be invited into someone's house with a view over Calf Sound to carry out another interview about the #PlaceNames of #Eday ... there is even talk of a field-name map! On the R is the Calf of Eday where the seals were singing & on the L the cliffs of Red Head #Orkney

#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

Intrigued to see this copy of Sir James Guthrie’s painting To pastures new in a brasserie in Strasbourg last night. A few geese missing and a more lush background in this one. #ScottishArtist artuk.org/discover/art...

Haste the day when the Saltire is here too.

House History for Beginners🔗, a half-day #HouseHistory course led by @dunedingenie.bsky.social Lorna Kinnaird, will take place on Tuesday 30 September 2025 at Eastwood House in Giffnock, East #Renfrewshire. Follow the link for more info and to book. #OnePlaceWednesday

The remains of the intriguing circular church at Orphir on Orkney's West Mainland. The church of St Nicholas was built in about 1123 and is thought to have been modelled on the rotunda of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot... #Scotland #Orkney

🔴 NEW: A viral meme compares the cost of asylum support to benefit fraud and tax avoidance. Ferret Fact Service looked into it and found the claim is Mostly False. Our latest fact check: theferret.scot/claim...

Metal teapot better. Discuss.

Tonight! #OnePlaceStudies, where #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory unite.

Lest we forget . . "Scotland is the coldest part of the UK and pays the highest heating costs, despite producing massive amounts of surplus energy. In September 2024 the Labour UK government, including 35 of Scotland’s 37 Labour MPs, voted to cut pensioners’ Winter Heating Allowance." #Indyclan

The quotes cited in this article suggest that if Nigel Farage's spouse bought the house it was not liable for the additional rate of stamp duty. That is not true. Sch 4ZA(9) Finance Act 2003. So has it been paid? www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/how-da...