The remains of 66 people discovered during flood management work at Holy Trinity Parish Church, Kendal, Cumbria. The remains date from the 11th to 13th centuries are to be reburied. 👇 BBC News - Kendal woman and other medieval remains to be reburied at church - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Civil records are one of the few Irish family history record sets that are intact. Here's how to search them 🇮🇪 www.whodoyouthinkyouaremaga...

The NAI has rolled out an update to the #1926census - great to see them working their way through submitted corrections. www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...

Inspired by a photograph from a recently digitised collection, our volunteer Johanna has written about King William IV dock and how the decision was made to fill it in during the 1930s. This was not as easy as it may sound. You can read the blog post here:

Hi #GenHour! Did you know that Manorial Records are among the richest sources for early family history? Join @manuscriptmondays.bsky.social for a practical 4-week online course exploring manorial documents. 28 May – 18 June 2026 Thursdays, 6:30pm (Zoom) Book: portal.sog.org.uk/Event/view/1...

We may be biased* but we agree that #HouseHistory (and of course wider #OnePlaceStudies, of streets, neighbourhoods, villages, parishes etc) can be great fun. There are lots of great resources to help you get started, and so many fascinating discoveries to make! *We are so, so biased!

I don't think Fanlight Friday has taken off as a hashtag, so #AdoorableThursday it is.

The Castle Hairdressing Room, Castle Street, Carlisle. Now a private house, but happily they've retained the original frontage. I'd love to see what shape the rooms are inside!

Our may issue of the Really Useful Bulletin is out now! #FamilyHistory #Genealogy www.exploreyourgenealogy.co.uk/files/1188-1...

Today is International Tea Day! 🫖 These monthly price lists and adverts for J.H.Newman's City Tea Supply in Exeter date back to 1879! The shop was located on the High Street where Marks and Spencer now stands. 📷 Edmund 942.359/E30 NEW #InternationalTeaDay #TeaDay #Tea #Exeter #RareBooks

Just updated! We've added another biography to our Portsmouth Area Railway Pasts project page. Find out about engine cleaner Alfred Howse's life story - & what it tells us about #RailwayHistory in #Portsmouth & beyond! www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/portsmouth-a...

Do you have Scottish ancestry? From parish records to maps, here's where to find millions of historic Scottish records online for free 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 www.whodoyouthinkyouaremaga...

Ready for the Bank Holiday heatwave? Eileen Younghusband and her friends c.1920. Dame Eileen (1902-1981) was a key figure in the development of social work during the 20th century. Her archive includes documents relating to both her professional and personal life. warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

Hair today, gone tomorrow...

Tips for finding people who are ‘Lost in Transcription’ in Free UK #Genealogy records. #FamilyHistory #OnePlaceStudies

Headed to NGS? I've just <whelp> created a "meetup" with the Whova app for #Geneabloggers and #Projectkin, and anyone interested in #FamilyHistory #storytelling with like-minded fellow travelers in #Genealogy #OnePlaceStudies and welcoming to amateurs. If you're at #NGS2026, join us!

The church at St. Peter, Broadwell, Oxfordshire lives up to Ruskin's words: ‘..the greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, nor in its gold. Its glory is in that golden stain of time, that we are to look for the real light, and colour, and preciousness of architecture.’

One of the three posts added to the Badsey Society website this month ties in nicely with our blogging prompt for May, #OnePlaceArchaeology. The post reproduces an article which appeared in the Spring 2026 issue of the Worcestershire Recorder, Recent Roman coin finds from Badsey. #OnePlaceWednesday

Members – a link to the recording of Jananne Rahman’s presentation at last week’s #OnePlaceStudies webinar, “This Blessed Plot – The story of 12 Mattock Lane, Ealing” is now available in the Members’ Area of our website! Not a member? Join us and join in! #OePlaceWednesday

#OnePlaceWednesday #OnePlaceStudies Looking at the IR58 records in #Devon for the first time? Here's the Research Guide at TNA. See section 6. How to find field books. (Ignore where it says the records are not available online.) www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-yo...

Brilliant news for those with Devon #OnePlaceStudies & #FamilyHistory #OnePlaceWednesday

Any fellow #history, #Genealogy, #Map or #Geography fans out there we're not following? Say hello! We don't *always* make terrible pirate puns. Honest. Arrr.

Today is #WorldBeeDay and we remember Alfred Dewey who opened a Music Warehouse in #Sidcup. He was a piano tuner, violin teacher, photographer (examples shown) and local council chairman. As a beekeeper he helped to form the Kent Bee Keepers' Association in 1917. Oh and he was a ventriloquist too!

Events in June from @norfolkro.bsky.social: Sat 6: Research your family or house history - for FREE Wed 10: Researching the workhouse : 1945 Thu 11: History in Focus - Manorial Records Mon 15: Reading from the Archives: Transport Tales #FamilyHistory #LocalHistory #HouseHistory #OnePlaceWednesday

John Stuart Mill, influential philosopher and Liberal MP for Westminster, 1865-1868 was born 220 years ago today. In 1866, Mill presented the first mass petition to the Commons in favour of women's suffrage, as @kathrynrix.bsky.social explores below.

✨ A door of real beauty. It astonishes me to think that the tower base at All Saints, Brixworth is Saxon - perhaps 7th century. Notice the murmuration of re-used Roman brick in the stone coursing. Some think it was a deliberate gesture towards the lingering imperium of Rome.

Stonham Aspall is one of several #OnePlaceStudies in #Suffolk carried out by our member Suzie Morley. All can be found on the Debenham One-Place Study website with its shared online family tree database, currently containing 23,510 people! #OnePlaceWednesday

The village is still buzzing when the sun shines. Ida Gandy: Heart of a Village, a study of Aldbourne published in 1975 #WorldBeeDay2026 and #OnePlaceWednesday

Scottish history column: Working Class Courtship, Marriage and Divorce, 1855-1939. How a narrative of the ‘traditional’ family is challenged by the complexity of familial and domestic experience. www.thenational.scot/culture/2611...

'Defence not Defiance': the banner of the Northwich & District Amalgamated Society of Salt Workers created in 1893 with a rare early depiction of a female worker bottom right. Now on show in the Weaver Hall Museum, Northwich.

This would definitely have benefited from a #OnePlaceWednesday hashtag without a typo!

Check out our Free Websites page for #FamilyHistory, including the British Civil Wars project. www.exploreyourgenealogy.co.uk/free-websites

Not long ago Michael Warren posted examples of places named for Britain’s tallest bird, the Crane – including Cransford, registered with us as a #OnePlaceStudy. Cranes went extinct in the UK in the C18th, but returned in the 1980s. What a thrill it was for me to see some recently! #OnePlaceWednesday

I’ve been buying some more death certificates for my #Sudbourne #OnePlaceStudy. It’s an unusual cause of death, but not reported in the newspapers, & no mention of an inquest, which is strange. The poor soul was a 3yo girl 😢 I’d have thought that scalding would’ve been the CoD #OnePlaceWednesday

#OnePlaceWednesday showcase: Carleton Place, Ontario Explore the lives & stories of residents in this community through collaborative genealogy research! 📍https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Carleton_Place,_Ontario_One_Place_Study #OnePlaceStudy #CollaborativeGenealogy

Northwich, Cheshire: the former Brunner Public Library and Salt Museum financed by Sir John Brunner and designed by local architect AE Powles; built in three sections to be lifted in case of further subsidence due to local salt workings. Grade II-listed; due to re-open in 2027.

✨New blog!✨ For this month’s #EYAHandwriting theme, take a look at some wonderfully tricky examples in Wolverhampton City Archives ✍️ #ExploreYourArchive www.exploreyourarchive.org/enough-to-ma...

From keeping notes on a Cumbrian village’s hedgerows, trees and birds, to research on gravestones in the churchyard, to “family trees, local stories, breadcrumb trails through the parish’s past” and a #OnePlaceStudy! Bee Lilyjones’ Gilcrux One-Place Study has just been registered. #OnePlaceWednesday

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 🚂

A warm welcome to another #OnePlaceWednewsday! Please join us in using the hashtag to post about #OnePlaceStudies, where #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory unite, during the course of the day. Posts with OPS-related news, views, links, tips, pics, questions, suggestions & general chat are all welcome!

Finding a record in an old filing box in the attic that suddenly makes everything make sense... #Genealogy #FamilyHistory

Excited to be speaking at this event alongside some brilliant people. A host of fascinating talks. 🗃️ #FamilyHistory #LocalHistory

Please can we all be careful about AI in history. It's no replacement for real history done by real people. 🗃️

Greetings #AncestryHour friends! It took a bit of work, but I've been exploring the IR58 records at The Genealogist for my #OnePlaceStudy place. A good reminder that indexing can be incomplete. It pays to browse the images once you've found your way.

Sorry to read this, always enjoy a trip to #York. Look forward to details of 2027 #FamilyHistory Fair in #Yorkshire @huddsfhs.bsky.social @yorkfhs.bsky.social @oneplacestudies.bsky.social

#Genealogy #FamilyHistory If you had New York City ancestors, you can use this tool to see what their home or business building looks like today (map, photo). My great-granny's 5-floor walkup tenement looks much like when she lived there in 1950. climbingmyfamilytree.blogspot.com/2026/05/toda...

On this week's podcast we are joined by a very special guest - Family Tree publisher Matt Hill. He’s got some exciting news to share about our BRAND NEW website, which is, though we say it ourselves, as delicious as a box of genealogical chocolates. https://f.mtr.cool/fmirfnjfat

Went to the county today do to some research on the cemetery I volunteer at. We didn't find what we were hoping to in the real estate records, but they were awesome to point us towards the assessors office to better narrow down ownership over the years. #oneplacestudy

The Tanfield Tomb at St. John the Baptist, Burford conceals a remarkable discovery. Beneath the finely dressed effigies lies a hidden skeleton - a memento mori almost unnoticed by visitors. Carved from alabaster… apart from one chilling detail: a single human thigh bone.