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

It is estimated that Haworth Churchyard, contains over 40,000 burials. Due to extreme mortality rates in the village in the 19th century the graveyard was very overcrowded and poorly oxygenated. When it rained, water from the moors and surrounding

#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...

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

The mesmerising Octagon at Ely Cathedral. After the Norman tower collapsed in 1322 it was decided to rebuild the tower as an octagonal space. A wooden vault was built from which would rise an octagonal lantern high 18 metres high. Undertaken by master craftsmen it took 18 years to build under the /1

Another place registered as a #OnePlaceStudy, Cranleigh in Surrey, was doubtless also named for the Cranes that used to live in the locality. As it happens, there is a new post for Cranleigh OPS on this #OnePlaceWednesday!

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

Victorian town attraction to reopen #Shropshire #Salop

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 🚂

#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

Might the records just added to Deceased Online, for #Nuneaton and #Bedworth Borough Council cemeteries and crematorium, include any of interest to your #FamilyHistory or #OnePlaceStudy research? Details of the cemeteries included, and the dates covered: www.deceasedonline.com/news_view.ph...

Writing Your Life Story Club with @janetfew.bsky.social returns in June as a Gold-exclusive workshop series. From childhood, homes, & everyday life, each monthly session helps you build your memoir in a supportive, practical setting. Starts 1 June 2026, online. portal.sog.org.uk/Event/view/1...

Discover how to find your ancestors' occupations, where to look for family history occupation records. Our guide covers records to help you trace ancestors' Victorian occupations. https://f.mtr.cool/bjssojmeiz

🧵Samuel Holberry (1814–1842) was a leading Chartist and one of Sheffield’s best-known radical reformers. Born in Gamston, Nottinghamshire, he joined the army in 1832 before settling in Sheffield, where he worked as a distiller and married Mary Cooper. After the Newport Rising,

16 May 1938 - Manchester Guardian supplement celebrating the Centenary of the incorporation of Manchester as a borough; a city's service to its citizens. It shows a glimpse of the the wide range of municipal services it provided. @lccmunicipal.bsky.social @municipaldreams.bsky.social

Quick trip to town to photograph buildings & monuments for the 16th-17th Century research I'm doing. Houses originated 16th century, old Norman Arch is from the old church & monuments for the Venables family originally in the old church #Andover #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #LocalHistory #Research

Putting Your Female Ancestors into Context. Women comprise fifty percent of our direct ancestors, so it is important to give them equal prominence. www.pharostutors.com/putting-your...

'Turnpike Roads in England & Wales', an excellent website for researchers and teachers on this important and interesting historical infrastructure. www.turnpikes.org.uk

The Historic Towns Trust is delighted to announce the publication of new historical maps of Brecon and Hay-on-Wye. These beautifully detailed maps explore the development of two historic Welsh border towns. Get your copy now! shop.historictownstrust.uk/product/hist...

If you have a #OnePlaceStudy or ancestral place in #Shropshire, take a look at the Shropshire #FamilyHistory Society’s new Shropshire Family History Hub. Over time—perhaps with your help?—this should develop into a useful resource for family and #LocalHistory in the county. #OnePlaceWednesday

www.avsfhg.org.uk/researching-... #poorlaw #paupers

LISTEN NOW! 'The Plaiter' with Dr Janet Few, where we hear about hard-working women given a bad press, and we go looking for a woman's parents in Highgate, Middlesex. #genealogy #ancestry #FamilyHistory #podcast

#Brighton & District 1894. While Brighton dominates this map, & the history of that city might feel like it dominates Sussex from the 19th C on, the wider area has a rich and interesting story to tell, as we showcase today. There’s also an intriguing #WW2 link. www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/one318.htm

Built in around 1800 Gibson (or Lord Holme) Mill at Hardcastle Crags was one of the first mills of the Industrial Revolution. The mill was driven by a water wheel and produced cotton cloth up until around 1890. In the early 1900s, Gibson Mill began to be used as an ‘entertainment emporium’

Postcard of Claydon House, home of Florence Nightingale born 'yesterday' in 1820 – sent to Gilbert in High Wycombe from Doris 'with love' in 1907 – both of them postcard collectors. #PostedInThePast

It’s #OnePlaceWednesday! Join in by using the hashtag to post, at any time today, about #OnePlaceStudies, where #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory unite. Questions? Ask them! OPS updates, resources, blog posts, links, pictures? Share them! About One-Place Studies🔗 | Registered Studies🔗 | Join us🔗

#AncestryHour You never know what you might discover in Parish Records (not Parish Registers). A file of loose leaves of paper, titled Abstracted Overseers’ Accounts, mentions several cases of Small Pox in the parish between 1770-77. This could explain a family’s migration. #SwiftExit #Escape

Margaret Catchpole died #OTD 1819. When this rural house servant stole a horse to ride to meet her lover in London, she was deported. In Australia she recorded the life of the aboriginals and early settlers. Hear her story in this podcast: tinyurl.com/4hducnyh #history #australia

One for the diary.

A Family History Of... The General Strike | Part 1 - Born to the Pit

Season Eleven is ready to go, and we're excited for you to hear these episodes! familyhistoriespodcast.com/2026/05/01/s... #genealogy #ancestry #FamilyHistory #podcast

‘Honourable bruises’: the new culture of games in Dorothea Moore’s early twentieth-century girls’ school fiction by Atlanta Tsiaoukkas Available to read via open-access now ⬇️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Join us today at 10am for our Getting started with secondary analysis workshop. Please follow the link to the livestream: www.youtube.com/live/lnaNdYI...

We've just added #MoreMaps to our website 🗺️ Newly online maps provide detailed coverage of large parts of India as well as the neighbouring countries of Bangladesh, Burma/Myanmar and Pakistan in the first half of the 20th century. Explore the maps > maps.nls.uk/additions/#201 #India #MapMonday

How do you access special collections at the Rylands? Make an appointment to see collections in-person in the Research Room or make an appointment to view collections online. More information about accessing special collections: https://ow.ly/vygw50YWvZq

John Wintrip, AGRA Member, has written a new book 'A History of Parish Registers in England and Wales: From the Restoration to Civil Registration', which is reviewed here: www.emmajolly.co.uk/blog/2026/05...

From horsefield to private villa, boarding house, Catholic chapel and school, and finally a theatre complex. In “This Blessed Plot: The story of 12 Mattock Lane, Ealing,” our next #OnePlaceStudies webinar, Jananne Rahman will explore this site’s 200 year history. Not a member? Join us and join in!

IGRS Top Research Tip #206: Did you know that the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland - PRONI - has a whole series of YouTube videos describing its collections relevant to family history: www.proni.gov.uk/proni-youtube

An excellent guide to nurse education and training is provided by St. Bartholomew's Hospital and the Barts Health NHS Trust under the title of Barts Health. You can find it here: buff.ly/YNYQ7M7 There is also a very good video guide to searching the archive:

Anna Baillie (1864-1958) was a nurse matron based in Bristol and was one of the key promoters of the College of Nursing :

Our next nurse is Emily Margaret Cummins (1866-1934) - a nursing leader and matron based in Liverpool:

If you are studying the early history of nurse training institutions, then you could start by examining the records of Mildmay Hospital in the East End of London: www.mildmay.org/history-of-m... There is a directory of nurses that although incomplete is growing: www.mildmay.org/mildmay-nurs...

Meet Mildred Hughes (1890-1972) MBE💙 Born in #Devon Trained in #London Sister-in-chief Naval Nursing Service 1929-1934 Matron Leicester Royal Infirmary 1929-1946 President @rcn.org.uk 1944-1946 #HistNursing #WomensHistory #WomenInRed #NursesInRed #Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred...

Extending this to ask, what is your favourite #FamilyHistory (or other) software for #OnePlaceStudies? What are the features that make that software good for recording and researching places, historical events, communities, and relationships beyond the familial?

Another nurse to be admired - this time it's Rosabella Paulina Fynes Clinton (1853-1918) - she was a nurse, masseuse, midwife, and a nursing reformer:

I think we need to have a series of posts about some historic nurses. Mabel Helen Cave RRC (1863–1953) was a British matron of The Westminster Hospital and West Suffolk General Hospital, and war time nursing leader. #historyofnursing