The setting for my talk, 'Country Seats & Sporting Feats', at #TableyHouse this week, very grand, and some of the sporting items that were displayed from the archive to go along with the theme of my talk. Enjoyed it very much and delighted to have been asked back #FamilyHistory #SportsHistory

Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student

240 pieces of timber beam from the Brontë home at Market Street, Thornton near Bradford to be a auctioned off in framed museum quality glass at £250 each to raise funds for the restoration of the hime. The family lived there between 1815 & 1820. 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'm both excited and honoured to be delivering a talk at #TableyHouse next week by kind invitation of the Friends of Tabley House Country Seats and Sporting Feats, the story of sport in the Country House estate #SportsHistory #SocialHistory #FamilyHistory #Cheshire @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social

NEW EPISODE: Who are our ancestors and why does it matter? Join our expert panellists as they answer audience questions about ancient DNA. Listen on your favourite podcast platform: lnk.to/AQOSAncientD...

#31DaysOfGraves #Day23 #Cross One of my favourites in my #FamilyHistory Collection Marth Allitt nee Craddock my 4xGreat Grandmother died 1860, buried in Sulgrave, #Northamptonshire designed by Thomas Cakebread & Co, Banbury There is a row of Allitt graves in Sulgrave, parents and children

The first stories from yesterday's #ForgottenWomenFriday are now available www.fewforgottenwomen.com/post/the-fir... Thank you to all our wonderful volunteers, #FamilyHistory #WomensHistory #UlsterHistory

5 new stories uploaded today www.fewforgottenwomen.com/post/five-mo... #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #WomensHistory

Some stories and a new #ForgottenWomenFriday for #InternationalDayoftheGirl #DomesticServants #FamilyHistory #WomensHistory #Genealogy www.fewforgottenwomen.com/post/weston-...

Don't forget that there are resources on our website too. We've just added more for those researching the history of mental health and asylums #SocialHistory #MentalHealth #FamilyHistory #Genealogy www.fewforgottenwomen.com/mentalhealth

Pop along and watch/listen/read the articles we have published for #InternationalDayOfTheGirl Perhaps also think of researching in our #ForgottenWomen Everyday project on #WestonPark

#LeavingMyKitchen Twins #BabyShower cake, a gluten-free/vegan chocolate sponge, using unrefined sugar for the cake and buttercream - almost a chemistry lesson rather than a cake! Hand-made baby clothes, topped with pink and blue sprinkles, the whole cake was handpainted.

Emily Fazakerley who in 1881 had the first private telephone installed in North Wales so she could listen to the opera. 👇 BBC News - Woman installed first north Wales phone 'to listen to opera' www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Musical Box, Liverpool's oldest record shop which has been in the Quinn family for 4 generations to receive a blue plaque. 👇 BBC News - Musical Box: Liverpool's oldest record shop to get blue plaque - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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...

Good to see active @alangodfreymaps.bsky.social account. Current subscription offers #Doncaster #Cambridgeshire #Exeter - lots of reduced railway maps www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/subscription... @doncasterdistfhs.bsky.social @devonfhs.bsky.social @balhnews.bsky.social @federationfhs.bsky.social

New this week in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'. "Us and Them: Disability Ethics, Oral History and Inclusive Praxis in the Reuse of Asylum Photography", by Alana Harris and Laura Mitchison bit.ly/4gH9e0f #Skystorians 1/2

The Anderson Boat Lift, Cheshire which allows boats & barges by 50 feet from the Weaver Navigation Canal to the Trent & Mersey Canal is celebrating its 150th anniversary. 👇 BBC News - Anderton Boat Lift: Victorian engineering feat's legacy lives on - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Lovely to spend time with @allthosebefore.bsky.social at the Secrets and Lies conf, another @afewforgottenwomen.bsky.social volunteer and @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social member

#LeavingMyKitchen - well left my kitchen a day or two ago! 30th Anniversary cake for brother & wife Red velvet cake with vanilla/orange flavoured buttercream & handmade fondand, handpainted dog snouts peeking out from under a duvet [based on their favourite poster], bespoke topper to finish.

From the fields of Herefordshire to the trenches of France the forgotten faces of the Somme tells the story of my ancestor William Wootton and my visit to the Western Front #WW1 #Genealogy #MilitaryHistory chiddicksfamilytree.com/2025/09/21/t...

Great day yesterday at the Secrets and Lies conference, lots of lovely comments after my talk on tracing female ancestors, thank you to all who came along. Also enjoyed flying the @afewforgottenwomen.bsky.social flag with @janetfew.bsky.social and @helenshields.bsky.social More of the same today

What a great talk on researching women's lives by researchdogsbody. Really well received by a packed house.

A poster offering a £500 reward for information on the murder of millowner Thomas Ashton in 1831. The murder may have inspired Mrs Gaskell's novel 'Mary Barton'. On display at Cheshire Museum of Policing, Warrington, at today's Open Day.

Wirral Council set to scrap 90 year old bylaws including beating carpets on a seashore, sounding a noisy trumpet or wantonly singing. 👇 BBC News - Wirral Council set to scrap 90-year-old seaside carpet beating law - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#WhatsOn this week at @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social 2 x Discussion Groups [MAC users & Family Historian 3 x Helpdesks - #Chester #Tameside #Wallasey 1 x Zoom talk 𝐄𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐡 𝐆𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐥𝐥’𝐬 #𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐃𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐲 Registration required 👉 www.fhsc.org.uk/.../313-fhsc.... How to join FHSC 👉 www.fhsc.org.uk

#LeavingMyKitchen #BirthdayCake Planter of Chrysanthemums #ChocolateCake with buttercream ganache, hand painted, with silk chrysanthemums and bespoke topper also made by me Really pleased with how this has turned out, it's for my Mum's 85th family lunch today, first birthday without Dad 💔

Very proud of latest numbers on my @playingpasts.bsky.social website

Great overview- and fantastic visual notes too- of a recent seminar on downward social mobility run by @cadebellaigue.bsky.social & @evemworth.bsky.social www.history.ox.ac.uk/article/down...

Really interesting panel at #BSSH25 on publishing with Rob Lake, Alex Hurley and Sam Oldfield. Thoughtful questions and interaction with great advice on publishing either books, articles and papers both from the panel and from the floor I enjoyed it very much @bssh.bsky.social

A curse tablet and a contract to lose a wrestling match from 3rd cent CE - examples of decline from this year's Derek Burley lecture by Sofie Remijsen @bssh.bsky.social #BSSH25

@jackiedepelle.bsky.social - I've just emailed you xx

Enjoyed chairing this session, great papers from all three presenters Mat - Reframing Local Heritage through the Drehberg Games Jim - Rufus Harris’s Failed Attempt at Reform during World War II Sam - ‘Don’t worry!’: The rise of netball & international governance 1926-63 #BSSH25 @bssh.bsky.social

Really enjoyed Conor's talk on Weightlifting in the US services around the time of WWII @bssh.bsky.social #BSSH25

New on @playingpasts.bsky.social Part 4 of @dralexanderjackson.bsky.social's series The Manageress: The life and times of Clarice Vizard Link👉 bit.ly/4lEHA4G Pt 1 👉 bit.ly/41hy6VD Pt 2 👉 bit.ly/4orjqxg Pt 3 👉 bit.ly/46R0ykV #Football @bssh.bsky.social @nfmofficial.bsky.social #WomenInSport

Nothing like an early morning facial to set you up for the day! #OutsideMyWindow #Cows 😍 #FridayFeeling

New article on @playingpasts.bsky.social The “Manageress” The life and times of Clarice Vizard (nee, Singleton) Part 1 by @dralexanderjackson.bsky.social of @nfmofficial.bsky.social Link 👉 bit.ly/41hy6VD #WomensFootball #Football @bssh.bsky.social @footballheritage.bsky.social #SportHistory

WOW - we have reached our 400th story already Thanks to our amazing volunteers - find out more in the link as part of the post below

For centuries, the kirk sessions of the Church of #Scotland served as local law courts — including disciplining people for "blasphemy, swearing and failure to observe the Sabbath". Find out more with our guide: www.whodoyouthinkyouaremaga...

More exciting news

The first batch of stories from our latest #ForgottenWomenFriday have been published, including mine on Sarah Wildblood from Wem, born just a few days before Queen Victoria. I really enjoyed threading together a comparison and is my want a short poem! @afewforgottenwomen.bsky.social

First sad discovery of the day from my @afewforgottenwomen.bsky.social Friday woman - Sarah Wildblood born in Wem in 1819 - was a twin and her brother died just a week later 😢 #ForgottenWomenFriday

And we are off. It is #ForgottenWomenFriday and our volunteers should all have their emails with the name of a women born in 1819 to research.

At last a national day I can get behind! It's #CowAppreciationDay 🐄

Come along and join us researching women born in 1819, the same year as Queen Victoria Full details of how to get involved in link below #FamilyHistory #Research

Not all heroes wear capes..... Some wear wellies, with angel wings Happy heavenly Father's Day Dad. Love you so much and miss you EVERY SINGLE DAY

So delighted for @movley.bsky.social MBE! Huge Congratulations Fi, so well deserved and so proud of you xxxxx

Fabulous performance of Romeo and Juliette at The Globe last night

#LeavingMyKitchen 2 cakes for a celebration weekend - the Man Utd shirt for Les's 70th had a little surprise, in that the sponge was Man City blue! Sange's 60th cake had a bespoke topper to reflect her love of dogs. #Cake #HappyBirthday

Does anyone know the location of the missing Telford milestone near Holyhead? 82 of the distinctive markers along the Holyhead Road/A5 from Shrewsbury survive, but the one 2 miles from the port has disappeared. www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-w...