Good to see the National Railway Museum Station Hall pieces coming out! And here's a sneaky look at the section to which the Railway Work, Life & Death project has contributed...👍👏 #Railway200 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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

Join us on Saturday 18 October at our follow-up day to hear about buildings we recorded in the south Bradford area in May. We'll also have a walk around the historic buildings of Wibsey. Everybody welcome! Booking details at www.yvbsg.org.uk/events.html.

THIS MAP HALF PRICE AT www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/acatalog/Sto... SORRY FOR SHOUTING BUT HOW'S THAT FOR A BARGAIN?! #Railway200

#Winchester is so full of #history they should export some of it to quieter places to air the stories out a bit and give them a chance to be heard properly, beyond the cramped city cacophony of past lives and events. www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/winchester.htm Welcome to today's thread... 1/

Thanks to @leedscivictrust.bsky.social and #HeritageOpenDays managed an interesting talk and partial tour of recently trestored Ledston Hall, #Yorkshire www.countrylife.co.uk/property/led...

Save the date for our Annual Dymond Lecture! On 11 December, we'll be hosting our annual winter lecture named after the late David Dymond. Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-b... #WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll

Join us on 15 October for a virtual lecture all about the Drax family's 500-year involvement in the sugar trade through newly published research. Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-d... #WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll

Join us on 8 October for a fascinating webinar looking at the history and legacy of votes for women! Find out more: ow.ly/H2Ch50Wqnov #WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll

APG is seeking nominations for leadership roles! We're looking for candidates for four officer positions, six Board members, and two Nominations Committee members. Nominate yourself or someone else by 25 August 2025. Details and nominations here: members.apgen.org/ct.php

Sounds interesting with more useful Family Historian software sessions coming up online fhzg.co.uk/future.html

Beneficial #FreeUKGen project @oneplacestudies.bsky.social @federationfhs.bsky.social @balhnews.bsky.social #GuildOneName

Vacancy with the Royal Historical Society: Membership and Office Administrator bit.ly/46TgZNA We look to appoint a Membership and Office Administrator (0.8 FTE) to join our professional Office to help us support history and historians. £31,904 pro rata. Closing date Monday 8 September #Skystorians

Great article especially worth highlighting the fascinating lead image - an 1852 view of #Whitby #Yorkshire

Useful information for anyone researching #FamilyHiistory #LocalHistory or ##HouseHistory in #Yorkshire especially the dedicated East Riding Deeds Registry @balhnews.bsky.social @oneplacestudies.bsky.social @federationfhs.bsky.social

Many of the buildings we record are of a more modest nature but now and again we take on the challenge of a larger, higher status, building! Here are some of the grander houses we have recorded over the years: Ingleby Manor, Knedlington Old Hall, Well Hall, and Hammerton Hall.

Happy #YorkshireDay! Let's celebrate the county's fabulous vernacular architecture (Worsbrough, Threshfield, Beck Hole, Haworth).

#OnePlaceWednesday thanks to @varchgroup.bsky.social for flagging up the updated Dendrochronology Database🔗 – it includes a felling range of 1514-39 for timber in The Dower House in my Fawsley #OnePlaceStudy. Other records, project archives, reports & articles can be found via the Search Data page.

Call for Papers! VAG Winter Conference at University of Nottingham, 10 and 11 January 2026. Theme: 'Vernacular buildings in urban contexts: The study of urban building types and integration with urban studies'. Papers invited - full details in the CFP at www.vag.org.uk.

Almost time to go - @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social live, for One night only! #Keighley #Yorkshire

📢Call for Papers RQGConf26 – Birmingham UK 🗓️25 April 2026 (🔗abstract deadline 16 Nov) 'Exploring the Past, Embracing the Future' #CFP #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #AIGenealogy #DNA #academicsky wp.me/P5HycY-10w

Pleased to have contributed the lead article on 'Local History for Family Historians' for this month's Family History Federation Bulletin. #FamilyHistory

New digitised resource! Yorkshire Miners, 1811-1945: 98 documents online in full at wdc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll... Includes leaflets, pamphlets, photographs and our earliest surviving branch membership records. More to be added in the next 12 months!

Good to catch up in person with friends and colleagues from GuildOneName @uoyborthwick.bsky.social @yorkfhs.bsky.social in #York before discovering the amazing Holgate Windmill - what an amazing survivor! www.holgatewindmill.org @balhnews.bsky.social

Really enjoyable f2f meeting #Yorkshire #FamilyHistory Societies in cool tranquility of #Selby Abbey, though not all groups able to travel. Thanks Selby Group for arranging venue & tour and Steve @yorkfhs.bsky.social for chairing @huddsfhs.bsky.social @federationfhs.bsky.social www.yorksgroup.org.uk

Read what your ancestors might have read as children! Enter an Archive of 10,000+ Historical Children’s Books, All Digitized & Free to Read Online www.openculture.com/2025/06/ente... #Genealogy

To see more of the interesting village of Mankinholes and the surrounding area, have a look at our short video at youtu.be/4LkOHZIB5g8?....

Motivated by @balhnews.bsky.social Small Grant Award finally visited Worth Valley Railway, Ingrow Station, Yorkshire to see the super Carriage Works project. @worthvalley.bsky.social Wonderful example of leather upholstery and ensuite #Railway travel - those were the days! kwvr.co.uk

It's the last week to use the excellent ScotlandsPlaces site. scotlandsplaces.gov.uk 🗃️ #Genealogy #LocalHistory #OnePlaceWednesday

Great to be able to share @GuildOneName #GuildEducation seminar recordings after the event - as a member. @researchdogsbody.bsky.social bound to be interesting one-name.org/seminar-events/

That's super, well done Fiona

NEW SEMINAR! The Fairground, the Circus, & the Victorian Railways Thursday 26 June, 17.30 UK, online Hedley Malloch In the @ihr.bsky.social Transport & Mobility History seminar series, part of our #Railway200 content. All welcome, just register in advance: www.history.ac.uk/events/fairg...

Recommended, heard this presentation for @oneplacestudies.bsky.social recently. Anyone interested in learning BSL British Sign Language might find the #WEA online 4 session course useful www.wea.org.uk/courses/skil...

Tickets finally on sale for @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social Mythbusting tour 2025 July evening in #Yorkshire @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social bradford-district-museums-and-galleries.arttickets.org.uk/cliffe-castl...

So pleased to have helped @rwldproject.bsky.social in its formulaic days. Workshop at The National Railway Museum in #York followed by a GuildOneName seminar produced supporting ideas. Well done Mike and team. @balhnews.bsky.social @oneplacestudies.bsky.social @federationfhs.bsky.social

Definitely worth read. Many items of locally interesting ideas even for those not with #Yorkshire connections! @balhnews.bsky.social @oneplacestudies.bsky.social @varchgroup.bsky.social

Watching exhibitor list with interest @federationfhs.bsky.social www.yorkfamilyhistory.org.uk/york-family-...

Today is the last chance to sign up to attend this year’s WEA Conference and awards 2025! Don't miss your chance - register here: thewea.info/_conference25

The latest Really Useful Bulletin is out now! Read the most recent #FamilyHistory news and more. www.exploreyourgenealogy.co.uk/bulletins

Interesting blog post, about hours of work on 19th-century Romanian railways & staff accidents: actualitateaferoviara.com/2025/05/29/a...

Super start to the Guild of One Name Studies #Yorkshire Regional Meeting with plug for #FamilyHistory Societies especially @huddsfhs.bsky.social @federationfhs.bsky.social Everyone ought to support one - at least! Sykes surname featured one-name.org/Results

Up coming talks

Latest @federationfhs.bsky.social Really Useful Bulletin is now available to download 👉 www.fhsc.org.uk/members-docu... There are details on the newsletter about how you can subscribe and get your own copy direct

Forward diary planning 2026 - sorry to see Guild of One Name Studies weekend conference in Portsmouth co-incides with @regqualgenes.bsky.social one day conference in Birmingham. www.qualifiedgenealogists.org one-name.org

#savethedate The RQG Conference 2026 will be held on Saturday 25 April 2026 at the Birmingham & Midland Institute, Birmingham. Updates via the newsletter @RegQualGenes #Genealogy #FamilyHistory www.qualifiedgenealogists.org/2026-confere...

Quick plug for The Guild of #OneNameStudies conference in #Portsmouth next year. If there are any topics you’d like covered, there’s still time to influence the program! #GenHour

Anyone knowing anything about #Yorkshire might recognise this photograph! Glorious day to visit and catch up with the local history @balh.bsky.social

Enjoyed a day out at Scampston Hall, North Yorkshire. Park looking wonderful ...

Memorial stone recently erected by Friends of Beckett Street Cemetery, Leeds for another of the #Barnbow Canaries (young Munitions workers). Elsie Martha Atkinson aged 18 years. Laid to rest with her family.

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