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'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

Yes, Scampston Hall is open as part of #HeritageOpenDays www.scampston.co.uk/plan-your-vi...

Found a reference to ‘the usual resorts of vagrants or encampments’ in the 1861 Census for Scampston as part of the enumeration description. Wondering if they are part of the travelling community making their way up to Appleby Fair? Has anyone else found this during research? #OnePlaceWednesday

TODAY! Come & find the Railway Work, Life & Death project stand at The Greatest Gathering! We're in U Shop, in the History, Heritage & Preservation area - lots of #RailwayHistory for you. #GreatestGathering #Derby #Railway200

Happy Yorkshire Day! Our members have registered 37 #OnePlaceStudies in Yorkshire, including towns, villages, parishes, streets, cemeteries, a school, and an orphans’ home. They can be found via the following links: ✦ East Yorkshire ✦ North Yorkshire ✦ South Yorkshire ✦ West Yorkshire

This excellent article by Rod Mickleburgh described what happened after the shooting of #GingerGoodwin #FamilyHistory #LocalHistory #VancouverBC www.labourheritagecentre.ca/the-ginger-g... @bclhc.bsky.social

#OnThisDay on 1918, #GingerGoodwin was shot and killed. His memory lives on. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #MiningHistory #VancouverIsland

This is the truest thing I have ever seen. You cannot imagine how much the Romans would have lost their minds for excel. They literally already started writing our historical chronicles in synchronized columns *by hand*

So good to see the completed work in person. #GingerGoodwin #FamilyHistory 🌹

Still stops me in my tracks. Fellow family historians will get it - seeing my Great Great Uncle Albert ‘Ginger’ Goodwin immortalised on the wall of a supermarket in Cumberland. A bit faded now, but his spirit lives on! #GingerGoodwin #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #CumberlandBC #LabourLegacy #Mining

Took a moment to pause after visiting Ginger Goodwin’s grave in Cumberland and being interviewed about him at the archives. As I head further north, the remoteness deepens and so does the peace. Just how I like it. #GingerGoodwin #VancouverIsland

Good to be at the archives in #CumberlandBC again. Lots of #GingerGoodwin memorabilia here. Heartwarming conversations with local people whose ancestors knew him. #FamilyHistory #LocalHistory #Mining

Wonderful to see the renovated gravestone of #GingerGoodwin at Cumberland Cemetery on#VancouverIsland and proud to represent the Goodwin family in this process. #FamilyHistory #Mining @familytreeuk.bsky.social

#CanadaDay finds me travelling #VancouverIsland, thinking about my great-great uncle, Albert #GingerGoodwin. Such a change to leave the Yorkshire pits for the forests & fresh air of this beautiful place. This island became the backdrop to the rest of his short but powerful life. #FamilyHistory

Even managed to squeeze in a trip to the British Columbia #Archives next to the spectacular Museum in Victoria, Vancouver Island. Interesting to discover many digital interviews of people recalling stories about #GingerGoodwin #FamilyHistory

#OnThisDay 2018, I took part in the re-enactment of my Great Great Uncle Albert’s funeral cortège and gave a reading at his graveside on behalf of the Goodwin family. It’s a pleasure to return to Cumberland, Vancouver Island for another chapter of the #GingerGoodwin story. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

A church-crawling day at All Saints, Slingsby, North Yorkshire. Views requested from historians, archaeologists & genealogists or anyone about the stone work. Masons’ marks or stone from a dissolved abbey?

Tracing your Surrey Ancestors on #OnePlaceWednesday 🕵️🔎🔦

The June 2025 edition of our quarterly #OnePlaceStudies journal Destinations🔗, written by our members, for our members, can now be downloaded from the Members’ Area of our website! Want to read it, and maybe even write for it? Join up and join in! #OnePlaceWednesday Benefits of joining🔗 | Join us🔗

A useful website for #OnePlaceVoices on #OnePlaceWednesday found a super entry for #Rillington here. dialectandheritage.org.uk/stories/spot...

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