Delighted to have researched the life of Frances Foxcroft (1888–1968), the English-born telephone operator whose courage during the 1918 #GingerGoodwin General Strike is now recognised by BC Labour Heritage Centre 🇨🇦 #LabourHistory #Genealogy #FamilyHistory www.labourheritagecentre.ca/collection/f...

Have you used inquisitions post mortem for your #FamilyHistory, #LocalHistory or #OnePlaceStudy research? #OnePlaceWednesday

A coat of arms on an old farmhouse plan prompted a simple question. The answer uncovered the story of Sir Richard Etherington, a lawyer, royal official and one of Rillington’s most remarkable former residents. #OnePlaceWednesday #LocalHistory Read more: 🔗 www.rillingtonhistory.com/people-of-ri...

Fields on top of the #Yorkshire #Wolds near #Rillington #OnePlaceStudy This is how the landscape rolls.

Market towns didn’t just serve themselves, they influenced the surrounding villages too. Before railways transformed travel & trade, local economies revolved around these centres. An invaluable perspective when studying the history of any place, including #Rillington. #OnePlaceStudy #LocalHistory

I do have a soft spot for tithe barns! This podcast features the #tithe barn at #Dunster. It also reminded me that Dunster is the subject of a #OnePlaceStudy proof that every place has stories waiting to be discovered. #LocalHistory @willsmanonename.bsky.social

Today the Rill was filled with laughter as the annual duck race brought the community together once again. Sometimes local history isn’t about looking backwards. It’s about recognising today’s traditions as tomorrow’s history. #Rillington #OnePlaceStudy

We're having a #heatwave (most of us) but you can always escape the heat in a #CoolCathedral #AllWelcome

What does an old farmhouse in #Rillington have in common with a knight of James I? The story of Rectory Farm leads from a Yorkshire village to one of its most remarkable former residents. #OnePlaceWednesday #LocalHistory #HouseHistory Read more here: www.rillingtonhistory.com/on-the-groun...

This is me! Except the families concerned weren’t even mine. How bonkers is that? Yet here we are. #Rillington #OnePlaceStudy

What do you do when the paper trail for an ancestor dries up? Where did they go? What happened to them? Check out our guide for tracking down those elusive ancestors who appear to have completely disappeared from the records https://f.mtr.cool/hzijqgwdhs

📍On the ground in #Rillington My latest blog explores a small stream which may have contributed to the place name. It’s one of many stories from the landscape, people & history of the parish from earliest origins to the railway age. #OnePlaceWednesday www.rillingtonhistory.com/on-the-groun...

To celebrate Miners’ Memorial Weekend, Cumberland, #VancouverIsland download your free PDF of the story of my great great uncle, Albert (Ginger) Goodwin #familyhistory The Story of #GingerGoodwin www.labourheritagecentre.ca/collection/t... 🇨🇦 Never forgotten

#Knaresborough Bed Race was an exceptional day yesterday. Increasing in popularity, the atmosphere was palpable. Here is the best YouTube video for the full extent of the race and my beautiful home town. I was spotted at the bottom of the High Street youtu.be/VRRYIrsEBCE?...

#Knaresborough Bed Race brings the community together. I'll be cheering them on from Bond End and supporting St. Michael’s Hospice, Harrogate. 🛌🏃📣 #LocalHistory #OnePlaceStudy @oneplacestudies.bsky.social @balhnews.bsky.social

Excited for another #BigRedBook focused on #Pocklington in the East Riding of Yorkshire! #LocalHistory #OnePlaceStudy It’s not #Rillington but it's close. 👍😀

After 25 years of researching #Rillington, I am delighted to share that I have been awarded the Licentiateship of @ihgs.bsky.social. My thesis, “ALL CHANGE”: Railways & Societal Alteration in Mid-C19 Rillington, explores how one parish can reveal wider patterns of social change. #OnePlaceWednesday

Financing roads has always been a challenge for communities & governments. In the 1600s the English started putting up barriers -- turnpikes -- and charging fees. @genejean.bsky.social and @howtoreadthisch.art tell all. N.E. USA still calls toll roads turnpikes. how-to-history.com/2026/05/27/t...

A fascinating day at #ShibdenHall exploring the world of #AnneLister. Heiress, businesswoman and keeper of famous coded diaries, she challenged expectations from an early age. Dressed in black and wearing a top hat, she was formidable, independent & utterly unapologetic. #FamilyHistory #LocalHistory

On the ground in Rillington. This eighteenth-century road map shows #Rillington between Malton and Scarborough. Look closely & you’ll spot several small streams, or rills, crossing the route. Roads, water and settlement shaped this landscape long before the railway. #OnePlaceWednesday #LocalHistory

This set of maps are among my favourite & they're quite different to our OS reprints; they're designed to be used for a key moment & kept as current as possible for operational success. It's not about finding the nearest cinema or a factory, its about preserving life where possible.

Summer on the River Nidd beneath #Knaresborough Viaduct. Places matter because memories happen there. #FamilyHistory #LocalHistory

🧵Standing on the corner of Middleton Avenue and Denton Road in Ilkley is a rare surviving Penfold pillar box, one of the most distinctive Victorian post boxes still in use today. Its designer, John Wornham Penfold, was a prominent architect and founding member of the Royal Institution

Thinking about this month’s blogging prompt #OnePlaceArchaeology, we had a great tip on Facebook from @genejean.bsky.social: Archaeological watching briefs are a good place to start. Here is a link for North Yorkshire www.northyorks.gov.uk/environment-... #OnePlaceWednesday

Did your #OnePlaceStudy have a turnpike road? #Rillington did, and part of this old route formed the current A64. #OnePlaceWednesday

Welcome to the last #OnePlaceWednesday of May 2026! We may be quieter than usual this week, as Steve is staying in a place with patchy wifi. Liz will help keep things going though, so do use the hashtag to post your #OnePlaceStudy news, views, tips, pics, questions, suggestions and general chat.

Are you studying, researching or teaching in the histories of Britain or Ireland? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH), it contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net

Levisham station on the early Whitby & Pickering #Railway, opened in 1836 and engineered through some of Yorkshire’s most difficult terrain. Inclines, rope-worked sections, glacial valleys and steep gradients shaped the line long before the later railway era reached #Rillington #OnePlaceWednesday 🚂

Wonderful news! Congratulations to all involved. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Education

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!