We've had an idea for some fun Thursday afternoon activity. Give us a year from 1357 to 1957 and we will give you a name of a Merchant Adventurer who joined the Company that year. For example in 1665 Suckling Spendlove became a member. Yes you heard right. 😆

The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick, is co-hosting a free one-day conference. Blood is the Price of Coal: Coal communities, health and welfare in Britain from the 19th century to the present will be held in Coventry on Thursday 18th June #OnePlaceWednesday warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

We are pleased to announce that we now run events and tours, including a series of Spring/Summer tours of London. For more information see here: how-to-history.com/events/

Rustons appear repeatedly in early C19th #Rillington: directories, parish regs, land records & MIs. A gravestone tells only part of the story but when records are triangulated, individuals emerge with precision & confidence becoming something deeper than isolated names on a page. #OnePlaceWednesday

On #InternationalNursesDay we remember the Voluntary Aid Detachments (VADs) in WW1. VAD nurses worked in field hospitals, many after only a few weeks training, and 128 were killed in the conflict https://vad.redcross.org.uk/volunteering-during-the-first-world-war/who-were-the-vad-volunteers#InternationalNursesDay#IND2026

Did you know it’s #LocalHistoryMonth? If you’re starting a new research project looking into the history of your county, town, street, we’ve got a great range of blog posts to support your research, including this one-place study guide by Pam Smith hampshirearchivestrust.co.uk/stories/blog...

#FingerpostFriday in rural #Leicestershire

#Yorkshire elections in the eighteenth century #OnePlaceWednesday

This old #signpost stands at a meeting point of landscape & geology on the #YorkshireWolds northern edge. The chalk hills meet former glacial Lake Pickering, whose ancient sediments helped create fertile soils that shaped settlement & agriculture around #Rillington for centuries. #OnePlaceWednesday

Lovely to catch up with @oneplacestudies.bsky.social LIVE this morning. There’s nothing quite like a chat with like-minded researchers. Planning to engage more now I’ve finished my thesis and can take my blinkers off! #OnePlaceWednesday

ICYMI The Historical Rillington Study Group is holding an exhibition at Malton Museum during May #LocalHistoryMonth. Do pop in and have a chat with us to discover more about our #LocalHistory #OnePlaceWednesday

The Society for One-Place Studies stand at the Guild of One-Name Studies conference @oneplacestudies.bsky.social #GuildConf2026

Congratulations Wendy on all your amazing endeavours. Best of luck with your book launch too! I’m looking forward to reading my copy soon. #OnePlaceStudy

Low Moorgate, c.1938–45: a Morris Eight, Morris 10 van at the Post Office, and an older Austin 7 beyond. Three generations of vehicles sharing one road = change by layering, not replacement. Documenting change on the ground in #Rillington #OnePlaceStudy #LocalHistory #OnePlaceWednesday

There's still space on my Summer course. I promise a week of highway robbery, pickpockets, pirates, burglary, murder, execution, & more. It'll be great fun! Crime & Punishment in Early Modern London & the Home Counties | Oxford Lifelong Learning, University of Oxford share.google/sEp55JVrpBtZ...

New Absolute Units is out now! We're joined by the fantastic author and campaigner @guyshrubsole.bsky.social to explore the question: who owns England? We travel as far back as the Norman conquest, through to the Tudors, Brexit, and right up to the present day. merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

To celebrate #LocalAndCommunityHistoryMonth in May the Historical #Rillington Study Group are presenting an exhibition in #Malton Library. Do drop in to see examples of our work and have a chat. #OnePlaceWednesday @balhnews.bsky.social

Edwin Percival Harrison (1897-1983), Rillington: coal merchant, bicycle repairer and seller, later the local school crossing keeper (lollipop man). One life, several roles - change on the ground. #OnePlaceStudy #MicroHistory #FamilyHistory #LocalKnowledge

#OnePlaceWednesday spent writing about C19 technological disruption (railways) while battling C21 technological disruption (printers) - both needed intervention. Had a stand-off with an HP Envy and pulled its miserable & begrudging plug out. Sorted. 🚂 #Licentiate #Thesis

“All Change” - Railway and Societal Alteration in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Rillington. Seriously folks, I’ve nearly completed my #Licentiate #Thesis #Railway @ihgs.bsky.social @rwldproject.bsky.social Currently proof-reading and stitching together, send strength! 🤓 🚂#OnePlaceWednesday

Big roof energy! I’ll say!

'The Illustrated History of Chapel Allerton' on the ground Walking tour 14:00-16:00 Sunday 18 January relating to a new book by local historian Steve Burt. I'm editor + author of Ch.8 & supplied loads of photos. Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-illust... (I'll be offering other dates later.)

#GingerGoodwin #FamilyHistory www.labourheritagecentre.ca/collection/p... A young miner & union activist whose medical exemption from military service was cancelled when he organized a strike at the Trail smelter. He was shot & killed by a former police officer. His death sparked a general strike 🇨🇦

This account shares research from an ongoing #OnePlaceStudy of #Rillington #Scampston, exploring how national change shaped ordinary lives in the mid C19. Through records, land & family history, it traces continuity, disruption, & resilience at a local level. History often hides in plain sight.

Ep2 arrived yesterday with guest Simon Howard. Can you help him find his missing LOWN relatives from Norfolk, UK? familyhistoriespodcast.com/2025/11/18/s... #genealogy #ancestry #norfolk #FamilyHistory

🚨ONE MONTH'S TIME!🚨 Railway Work, Life & Death project co-lead Mike is privileged to give the 2025 @balhnews.bsky.social Dymond Lecture! ‘Heads – you lose!’ Working for the railways in Britain before 1939 Thursday 11 December 2025, 7pm, online #LocalHistory #Railway200 www.balh.org.uk/dymond2025

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

A quick #OnePlaceWednesday read for you on our blog, from @wendytm.bsky.social Wendy Tait Mayfield: #OnePlaceStudy Enhances Family Tree.

So looking forward to your NRY transcripts. Book format for the ERY. Happy days! 👍😀 #HearthTax

ICYMI: The first of our new episode type - BRICKDUST with Pam Smith ( @genejean.bsky.social ), where we welcome back a previous guest to hear how their Brick Wall is going... familyhistoriespodcast.com/2025/09/26/s... #genealogy #ancestry #FamilyHistory

Highlighting the fantastic work of Joe Saunders and his strong case for using title deeds for *everything*! If you’re working on a village history (like me, in the parish of #Rillington and its chapelry of Scampston), you’ll find this especially relevant. #OnePlaceWednesday

Two very different memorials about the same man. Dr John Simpson, later Hudleston, was a major landowner in #Rillington & also the man behind the infamous #Knaresborough Castle Yard Riot of 1865–6. Left his mark in both places I’ve called home. Was he always calling out to me? #OnePlaceWednesday

Have you noticed an abandoned or derelict Victorian building near you? 📩 [email protected] for a chance for it to be featured in our Top 10 Endangered Buildings list 2026. 🏘️ 🏭⛪ in England & Wales only, built between 1837 - 1914. More here: bit.ly/4hybqrc #heritage #endangeredbuildings

Starbeck used to be an important junction with heavy goods traffic from the North to Leeds with 40 passenger trains daily. The locomotive shed built in 1857 was extended to become the longest two-track engine shed in Britain. It was a major influence for the rising village of Starbeck. #Railway200

#31DaysOfGraves Day 22: Landscape. The churchyard of St Mary’s in my local #OnePlaceStudy sits within the lovely landscaped parkland of Fawsley, which although not created by ‘Capability’ Brown was later worked on by him. Here we look Southeast across part of Big Waters lake. #OnePlaceWednesday

Every now a then a previously unknown book surfaces that’s exactly what’s needed for my #IHGSLicentiate research. This could not be more timely as landowners played a vital part in the mid C19 during the coming of the railway. Lucky me! @ihgs.bsky.social #Rillington #OnePlaceWednesday #LocalHistory

Magnificence in blue and gold. #CarlisleCathedral #churchcrawling #sacredspaces

MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Celebrating #OnePlaceWednesday by completing the first draft of my book on the history of #GraveneyGoodnestone school. Started as a booklet to commemorate 150 years and became 45000 words. 😂 Now need to get it reviewed.

Don’t make me choose between the beauty of the exterior and interior of #BeverleyMinster. The stonework, light and peace tell a story of faith and craftsmanship that’s echoed throughout the #EastRiding of #Yorkshire for centuries. #SacredSpace

Early Modern graffiti in Beverley Minster. Joseph Barton was here in 1643!

Who did what in early modern England? New #OpenAccess book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social, based on thousands of #EarlyModern court depositions 🗃️ Read it: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

On #OnePlaceWednesday, @familyhistpod.bsky.social Brick Dust episode has something for everyone. #FamilyHistory #LocalHistory #Railway#Heraldry #ContinuingEducation

Tindall Bowman, Station Master is the gift that keeps on giving in my @ihgs.bsky.social #Licentiate study of the #railway in #Rillington #OnePlaceWednesday A key player (musician) also - see what I did there?

Nice #RailwayFamily #FamilyHistory piece here! #Railway200 railuk.com/general-inte...

If #Railway200 has sparked or rekindled your interest in #RailwayHistory, and you fancy study at Masters or PhD level - then come & study with Dr Mike Esbester at the University of Portsmouth! An expert in railway, transport & mobility history: www.port.ac.uk/about-us/str...

Delighted to return to @familyhistpod.bsky.social! Andrew & I discuss the IHGS Licentiate, #GingerGoodwin & how I solved my brick wall on Sir Richard Etherington in #Rillington #OnePlaceStudy I was one of the first guests back in Series 1 & the first to take part in the Brick Dust series.

We promised some new material from us for #AATP25, and the first video is now live on our #OnePlaceStudies YouTube channel! Check out Mini-AATP - Welcome and getting started presented by @willsmanonename.bsky.social Liz Craig on this wonderful #OnePlaceWednesday

IHGS has shaped my own #genealogy journey, if you’re at The Family History Show in London on 4th October, make sure to stop by their stand! #OnePlaceWednesday

#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