This was a good watch, with plenty of records presented as evidence alongside opinions of current experts. I was impressed by the original police work — my own Victorian Thames police detective ancestor was very much on my mind. I wasn’t completely satisfied with the final theory presented, though.

Is Jessie dating Jack? Is Fiona Reece’s mum? How everyone might be related on The Traitors

I have just discovered that my 1st cousin 5x removed, who was a professional cricketer in the 1870s, played some matches in a touring team of CLOWN CRICKETERS. I honestly couldn’t made it up. 🤡 🏏 Ps this image is not AI.

What do my fellow genies make of the family tree in #TheTraitorsUK? #AncestryHour

Happy Christmas to all my Bluesky friends, from Costa Rica!

I came across something I'd never seen in a parish burial register before; a child described as 'of Silent birth' - clearly a still birth. And now it's occurred to me that the German for silent is 'stille' (Stille Nacht = Silent Night) the term 'still birth' has taken on a more powerful meaning... 😢

Stunning pair of c. 1,500 year-old luxury women’s leather shoes! Exceptionally well-preserved and still shimmering with gold leaf! ✨ From Egypt. V&A Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

A quick and short (for me!) blog post about how even the most ordinary-looking and emotionless document can reveal turbulent events in #FamilyHistory digupyourancestors.com/2025/12/10/w...

Looks like we may be heading towards two more Brickdust episodes… so we’d love to hear some more funny/weird names you’ve seen whilst researching. familyhistoriespodcast.com/question #genealogy #ancestry #archives

I’ve just finished learning about manorial records with @pharostutors.bsky.social and tutor @joesaunders1.bsky.social and this week I realised I actually own some myself! I have 8 19th-century documents from the Court Baron of the Manor of West Drayton. And now I can make sense of them! #GeekingOut

The Marvellous Miniature Workshop review – like all your Christmasses come at once

An excellent episode that combined archaeology with thoughtful remembrance for this young American pilot.

I'd like to bublycise this spelling just seen on @findmypast.bsky.social . 😁

I was just at the dentist for my daughter, and while she was in with the dentist there was just me and two other women in the waiting room. A nurse came out and said “Clare?” We all looked up. Turns out we were all called Clare/Claire!

Interesting bit of Tudor recycling. And I’m in Whitchurch right now!

Jane Austen went to school for a short time in Oxford and her father and brothers studied at St John’s College, which is putting on a free exhibition from Wed 3 to Mon 8 December 2025, 10am to 5pm daily, on “The Austens at Oxford” www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/eve...

The House at number 48 on BBC Sounds is an amazing story on 3 levels — the research that shone light on a family mystery, the tragic events that are revealed, and investigation into their legacy today. The family historian in me wanted more loose threads tied up at the end but I highly recommend it.

Here's a new occupation for my family tree: In 1901 Louisa Mugglestone (wife of my husband's 1st cousin 4x removed) was a self-employed water diviner. 1/2

Theodocia Batcheller. Or Batchelder. Or Batchellor. 🤷‍♀️ #FamilyHistory Here’s her story: toomuchbrudders.com/2025/05/29/d...

Wonderful names and history!

What a lovely name!

I've always had a soft spot for Faith Temple. I also like Tymothy Temple, Owbridge Johnson, Tabitha Piscod, Daniel Bear, Valentine Gerry, Christian Gale and not forgetting plain old Elizabeth Taylor 😊

What are your favourite names of direct ancestors? My Top 10 are: Hephzibah Priest Comfort Smith Rosson Martin Olliff Foster Maria Apollonia Hofen Peggy Sharp Jemima Petty Pascha Bakewell Henry Muggleston Matthias Thacker #familyhistory

Hello all, the Oxfordshire History Centre is now on Bluesky!

This #MapMonday let us take you back in time ⌛ We've just added first edition 6-inch to the mile Ordnance Survey maps of England and Wales to our website, published from the 1840s to 1880s. These maps are all from bound volumes. Explore the maps > maps.nls.uk/additions/#188

Ep. 1 of @hallierubenhold.bsky.social’s #IntimateHistories podcast really resonates. “History is the story of people, & people’s lives are meaningful & profoundly messy.” Social history, she says, is the counterweight to ‘great man’ history — I think family, local & house historians would all agree.

So much of Cymru/Wales's heritage lost in a single theft.. ...Items from Llanwrthwrl, Powys, Capel Isaf, Carmarthenshire, Heyope, Powys, & the spectacular Early Bronze Age gold lunula from Llanllyfni, Gwynedd. 😞 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Inside the Roman Catholic chapel at Biddlestone in Northumberland is an intriguing remnant from life on the home front during the Second World War. 1/6

Alice Huyler Ramsey 1909 1st woman to drive car across US, 3800 miles #NewYork to #SanFrancisco in green 4-cylinder, 30-hp Maxwell DA. 59-day trek w 2 sisters-in-law & friend who couldn't drive. Arrived to great fanfare on 3 wks later than planned. b #OTD 11 Nov 1886 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_H...

Let's play Bucks Name or Name Name

Teigh (pronounced 'tee'), Rutland, has what at first appears to be a war memorial. But in fact it is one of the 50-odd parishes dubbed 'Thankful Villages' by Arthur Mee in his 'The Enchanted Land', 1936, which got back all the people they sent to the First World War. 1/2

Lengthening autumnal shadows - Easthall Manor, #Denver #Norfolk #BluePlaque - Captain George William Manby Born 1765 Inventor of a portable fire extinguisher & apparatus for saving life from shipwrecks. Manby’s mortar fired a line from the shore to a wrecked ship so people could be winched ashore.

What a poignant find

Help please! This is a PCC copy of a handwritten codicil to a Will with lovely phonetic spellings. Unsure of 2 underlined words. Is it 'ankel/Oonkle [Uncle] Daniel'? (but looks like Dankel!) I don't have the original unfortunately. See Alt Text of 1st version for transcript & source. #palaeography

Given that the Orionid meteor shower is taking place at the moment I thought this my be appropriate. The Wold Cottage meteorite (also called the Wold Newton meteorite) fell near Wold Cottage farm on 13 December in 1795, a few miles away from the village of Wold Newton

#31daysofgraves • Social Group 🪦 The gravestones of paupers who died at Lampeter Workhouse 🪦 Each gravestone is inscribed with the initials and 'inmate' number of the person buried there. 📍St Peter's Church • Lampeter ⛪ #Wales #History

Two of my favourite things — gravestones and #fungi at St Bartholemew’s, Nettlebed

Had a nice surprise today — I was relaxing to the Mindful Mix on BBC Sounds (26/9 episode) and heard my own choir! Track 10 is Song of Proserpine by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. It’s from an album that Excalibur Voices recorded in January, now on Spotify.

Today we had an interment service for my mum at St Dunstan’s, Monks Risborough, where she was married, did local history research (when registers were still in the parish chest), taught Sunday School & baptised her firstborn (me). It was a perfect spot — peaceful, historical and buzzing with nature.

1934 Jeanie Dicks undertook 1st permanent electrification of Winchester Cathedral. Electrifying nave meant removing & reburying coffins except Jane Austen’s (moved gently to side). Press called her the "girl engineer" - she was 40! b. #OTD 25 Sept 1893 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanie_...

I've added a little countdown clock to the 1926 census release on my website. cbgenealogy.ie #IrishGenealogy #AncestryHour #GenHour

🎟️ Tickets for our next concert are now on sale! 💘 Love’s Philosophy 🍂 Saturday 18 October 🕢 7:30 pm 😇 All Saints Church, Headington www.ticketsoxford.com/events/loves... #Headington #Oxford #Choral

BBC News - Citizenship: How ancestry DNA tests can lead to a new passport - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The story of the restoration of St. James's Church, Llangua, Monmouthshire. The church which started as a small stone monastic cell dates back to 1150 & became a parish church in the 15th century. 👇 BBC News - How human hair helped to save a crumbling medieval church www.bbc.com/news/article...

A while ago I wrote a blog about an ancestor who lived in a ‘gypsy caravan’. I was recently contacted by someone who could not only add more details to my research but sent me pictures of a Romani caravan that is still in storage just around the corner from her house! #GenHour

I'm finding the updates about this archaeological project very poignant, especially as last week at the RBA I read 3 police reports about fatal air training accidents that happened near my home in 1942. www.facebook.com/CotswoldArch...

‘The church… is not distinguished for any architectural details of importance’. This is what Samuel Lewis wrote about St Mary’s, Penllech in 1833. 1/6

Really interesting, especially with the links the research has found to literacy

This memorial in Trinity College Chapel may look medieval at a glance but it was made in 1868 for Rev. William John Beaumont. A chaplain to the Forces Hospital in Sebastopol, he died suddenly aged just 40. The #ArtsAndCrafts brass is beautiful but the name has been misspelled as BEAMONT.

A detail from the 25" Ordnance Survey Map of Cerne Abbas, published in 1888. Is it just me or have they missed out an important detail...?