Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

🚨What's that?🚨 You want FREE access to 17 brilliant #RailwayHistory articles from the @jtransporthist.bsky.social? All yours! For #Railway200 the JTH has put together a virtual collection of articles, & until 15 October they're free! Download & read now: journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...

One of Lev's posts that hopefully @greenleejw.bsky.social will enjoy and not groan at too much.

History curious? You don't need to be in London (or the UK) to attend many Institute of Historical Research seminars, although if you're in Bloomsbury you'll enjoy doing so. Most are hybrid (online/in person). They're free, usually fortnightly and open to the public. Starting this week:

This looks like a great online event if you have an interest in 1970s alternative and community newspapers… www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archiving-...

Academia.edu is changing its Terms and Conditions, and they're so outrageous (AI training; signing over ownership to them etc) I closed my account today. A thread with some practical tips if you want to delete your account (5 steps):

Anyone looking to visit Dover, Kent, England there is a group of volunteers describing themselves as 'Friendly local guides' and one I met definitely was that. A family member had been to a talk by them the week before and really enjoyed learning more about the Maison Dieu. dovergreeters.org.uk

Bye bye Academia.edu I’ve left because I can’t agree to the new terms & conditions

Join us in #Canterbury on Monday 20th October for a special talk presented by Dr Barrie Cook – numismatist and former curator of coins at the British Museum. 🎟️ Tickets are £14.00 📧 To purchase, email your name and telephone number to [email protected] ℹ️ More details: bit.ly/CoinHoardsEvent

Not sure if this would be of any use to you @rowena-abbott.bsky.social ??

This morning on the family grapevine found out the village fete has been cancelled. Told my mate just before they went to go to it. This information has travelled about 230 miles from Kent to Shropshire and then gone back to a spot about a mile away from where it originated (as the crow flies)!!!

This week's #52Ancestors prompt is animals. Now my grandfather, his father, his father and his father were shepherds / lookers and many of the other male family members described as Ag Labs. So unsurprising that at 8 months old there's a photograph of me in with the sheep and lambs.

On 20-Sep-1754 baptism took place of Valentine SPAIN. Named after father and grandfather neither were Feb born. Baptised in Parish Church of Deal, Kent, England he did marry on 14-Feb-1775 at same place. Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 and Marriages, 1538-1973

The #52Ancestors prompt last week was 'In the news' and sure I'm not alone in thinking that the current reports of events are too depressing to note. So decided that having received three old newspapers I'd look at them for some items of interest. Sadly found Foot & Mouth and death of a child.

Happy birthday to the Kent Archaeological Society which was established on this day, 19th September, 168 years ago in 1857! These two undated photographs show the KAS library hosted at Maidstone Museum in its hayday. We definitely don't mix an open fireplace and precious archives today!

Baptism on 19-Sep-1858 of 2x Great Grandmother Julia Alice Maria TUTT in Folkestone, Kent, England. She was the daughter of John TUTT and Margaret. FHL Film Number 1850119 Reference ID item 5 p 138 England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com

On 18-Sep we have siblings born in 1903 and 1905. Herbert Harold HOOD and then Richard HOOD and Louisa's next child, Edith Elsie HOOD, two years to the day. England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2007.

Do you have experience of driving a bus or a lorry but you'd rather carry books? Would you like a job driving around #Orkney, going to schools and delivering books to people? There's still time to apply for the job of driving #BookyMcBookface at: myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/ork...

On 17-Sep-1828 the baptism of a 3x Great Grandfather took place in West Dean Near Chichester, Sussex, England. William Marshall POOR was the son of Richard POOR and Elizabeth. FHL Film Number 0918249, 0416751, 416755 Ancestry.com. England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 ]

Brilliant talk by @lizyule.bsky.social for @shropshirefhs.bsky.social tonight. Another presentation with hints of Kent to make me happy.

www.kent.police.uk/news/kent/la... So glad they've got them back but wish people didn't vandalise or steal things in the first place.

Absolutely. Yesterday had on a Google search the AI Overview of "There are no Mastermind or Celebrity Mastermind contestants for tonight, September 15, 2025, as it is not scheduled to air." Must have imagined watching it earlier in the evening.

On 16-Sep-1860 the baptism of 3x Great Aunt Margaret Taylor HOLMANS, daughter of Benjamin HOLMANS and Margaret May, took place in Alkham, Kent, England. FHL Film Number 1785907 England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.

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Write up and pictures of the events attended for Dover Heritage Open Days over the weekend. bluebellgenealogy.co.uk/dover-herita... Popped back to Dover, Kent, England for a few days and could have done with boat instead of car for drive back. 😒 Includes Maison Dieu @allthosebefore.bsky.social 😀

Seem to have got behind on my On This Day posts so here goes on catching up: Nothing on 09-Sep but 10-Sep-2007 lost a 1C 1R who had retired and living out in Australia. A great uncle on 11-Sep-2012 who resided in Canada then celebrated an Aunt's birthday with her on 12-Sep. [Family Knowledge]

There had been numerous complaints to my knitting request as apparently there was the belief that didn't have space for these with my real cactus collection. Think I'm proving they fit perfectly on the shelf. #Knitting #Cactus

Wondering if @rowena-abbott.bsky.social has come across any tales.

Thanks to everyone who came to yesterday's launch of our Jane Austen exhibit and trail! Visit until 19 December to explore links between Jane Austen and the English countryside: from a rare Austen letter, to craft workshops for families & adults. merl.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/jan...

I can imagine @nathandylangoodwin.bsky.social enjoying living here. 😛 Make an ideal writers retreat. www.onthemarket.com/details/1653...

www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/F... So cute that the two bird species that are known as difficult to separate in looks for identity have decided to breed. 😛

17 antique watches and a flintlock blunderbuss stolen from a Museum and Art Gallery, in Exeter, Devon

Due to a very kind offer by someone clearing their parents' place I'm now in possession of three newspapers. They don't even know why they had them as no known connection to #Shropshire. If someone can send me a magnifying glass I may be able to work out what was going on in 1922, 1925 and 1935..

John Smith, the brewer died OTD in 1879. Born in Leeds he was the eldest of five children of Samuel Smith, a wealthy butcher and tanner. In 1847 with the help of his father, John Smith entered the Backhouse & Hartley brewery in Tadcaster eventually acquiring it . The business went from strength to

I think it's underappreciated that this site goes "we know you all came up with your own solution to things we don't have, and now that we have an official version we're working with your solution to combine the two"

www.findmypast.co.uk/image-share/... Pills for Female Complaints?! 😆 Wellington Journal 25 January 1862 Image © Midland News Association. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.

@atcherleyons.bsky.social I see in 1854 Mr Barber was at the Swan Inn, Waters Upton auctioning off property. I think they should bring back the pub as the place to do business as would make work much more fun. 😀 www.findmypast.co.uk/image-share/...

@fhsofcheshire.bsky.social's #FridayRoundUp At the #BNA this week there have been a lot of new and updated #Shropshire titles from - #BishopsCastle #Bridgnorth #Clun #Ludlow #MarketDrayton #Newport#Oswestry #Shrewsbury #Wenlock #Wellington Full list in screenshots below with #AltText as usual

Another quiet day as unable to find any events for 08-Sep either in the family tree.

Very conscious today those on my side of the country finding it a tad wet and thundery. Reports in that one friend has been sat holding dog's paw, another clambered over seat in car rather than get out again and I'm researching rather than getting soaked going out. Sun and hot in Kent though!! 🤔

Nothing in the tree file for 07-Sep.

On 06-Sep-1932 in Eastry registration district, Kent, England the husband of a 1C 2R was born. He died in 2019 having reached his 86th birthday. Ancestry.com. England and Wales, Death Index, 1989-2024 Original data: GreyPower Deceased Data. compiled by Wilmington Millennium, West Yorkshire.

Good friends are those that surprise you a bluebell keychain for your business bag. 😛

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Week 36 prompt for #52Ancestors is Off To School. My secondary school uniform was navy and for years after could not wear anything that colour due to the "bad memories" of those days. Nor did I play any sports for a school but appears my grandfather did. bluebellgenealogy.co.uk/sandwich-pri...

So having managed to talk to both parties will now be introducing two cousins who are excited to know that I can connect them. #Shropshire

On 05-Sep-1582 in Sutton, Kent, England the burial of Susan VERYER. Daughter of William VERYER and Ann. She had only been baptised on 19-Aug-1582. Following year her sister seems to have lived for even less time. Evidence via family member. #VERIER #VERRIER #VERYER

On 04-Sep-1793 the burial took place of 5x Great Uncle Thomas COCK in Ringwould, Kent, England. I don't believe he was over the age of 5 when he died, based on sibling births, and possibly still in infancy. FHL Film Number 1836280 Ancestry.com. England, Select Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991

Vandals have targeted the Grade I-listed Jervaulx abbey in the Yorkshire Dales and stolen and smashed stones from its ruins. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Born on 03-Sep-1916 in Hove, Sussex, England was Lucy Alice WYATT who later beaome the wife of 2C 3R Reginald Ernest HOUSTON. General Register Office; United Kingdom; Volume: 10; Page: 2437 East Sussex Record Office; Brighton, England; Sussex Parish Registers; PAR 393/1/2/4 Via Ancestry.com.